The year 2005 was a significant one in Ian McDermott’s career—and in the lives of numerous cancer patients across the globe. For the two years prior, he and his research facilities planning and safety team had been immersed in a $200 million project for a 388,600-square-foot, 15-story building, with 14 floors wholly dedicated to research. […]
Case Studies
Ian Young – Gusto
Est. reading time: 4 mins
Failure is not unexpected, and to Ian Young at San Francisco-based Gusto, that’s refreshing. With the freedom to experiment, Young is embracing the challenges in his new role as head of facilities and build-outs for Gusto, a people platform provider of cloud-based payroll, benefits and human resource management software for businesses. It’s a totally different […]
Iga Wyrzykowski – XpresSpa
Est. reading time: 5 mins
To Iga Wyrzykowski, there’s a certain awe that strikes her when she walks through an airport, past one of the XpresSpa stores she’s helped create. “I walk by and think to myself, ‘Wow I designed that!,’” XpresSpa’s director of store design and construction says. “The transformation is amazing. It’s incredible to think that I designed […]
Industrial Plywood Inc.
Est. reading time: 4 mins
It’s called bird’s-eye maple, and while it grows on trees, those trees are few and far between. For it’s not a distinct variety of the maple tree that can be grown from a sapling. It’s more of a natural rarity, where at some point, the wood reacted to outside stimuli—perhaps fungal or viral infection, genetic […]
