Image

/Image

May, 2021

May 2021 – City of Chicago, 2 North LaSalle Office Consolidation

A fast-paced City of Chicago project recently relocated and consolidated City offices in the 2 North LaSalle office building in Chicago.  The project right-sized space for City departments, maximizing functionality and efficiency and maintaining daylight access for all employees. The 220,000 square foot office space, spread over eleven floors, delivers a revitalized planning approach with new employee workspace standards matching requirements to job function.  TKB worked with architectural prime Johnson Lasky Kindelin to develop planning and design standards, and to achieve the compressed project timeline.

The project delivers a tailored, open environment with clear circulation and reconfigured storage and services.  Wall graphics showcase historic Chicago history.  Small group huddle rooms provide expanded opportunities for collaborative teaming and quiet work, and large conference rooms dispersed on each floor offer flexibility and updated audiovisual capability.   Breakrooms are designed for multiple modes of interaction in creative, colorful spaces.  The project blends new and reused furniture into a cohesive whole.

Designed to meet LEED Silver requirements, the project provides the City with modernized offices featuring newly efficient lighting, more daylight access, and greater collaborative space – all delivered within a modest budget.

May 2021 – University of Illinois and Urbana Champaign Education Building

Renovation on the University of Illinois’s Education Building on the Urbana Champaign campus bring much-needed updates to building services in a fifty-six-year-old structure.  The project replaced aging elevators and renovated toilet rooms to new accessibility and diversity standards.  TKB’s work first developed a scope of work to fit within the available funds and priorities, reviewing potential scope models with the project team’s cost estimator and University’s Facilities and Services Department.  The final scope focused on expanding women’s restrooms, creating a new all-gender toilet room, and replacing both building elevators in phased construction. Vertical transportation is now fully accessible and updated, and the new women’s and all-gender toilet rooms are code-compliant, accessible, and better matched to current student demographics.

Maintaining functional use of the building throughout construction was the most significant project challenge, requiring consecutive modernization of the north and south elevators. Continuous access to an operating elevator and toilet rooms was achieved by overlaying two critical path tracks for long elevator lead times and the toilet room renovations.

May 2021 – City of Chicago, 2 North LaSalle Office Consolidation

TKB has completed its work on a fast-paced City of Chicago office consolidation project. The project allowed the City of Chicago to right size its space to meet its current and future requirements. The approximately 220,000 square foot office space, spread over eleven floors, includes ample shared meeting spaces, more huddle rooms and fewer private offices, and offices that are efficiently designed for function.  The projects consolidates City offices from multiple locations.

0w8a0025rev

Small group huddle rooms are embedded into departments to enhance collaborative teaming and to accommodate video calls and quiet work.  All floors have large conference rooms with updated audiovisual capability and break rooms for informal gathering, and there is a shared conference center for larger events and receptions.  Access to daylight is emphasized for all employees.  The project mixes new and reused furniture: conference room, workstation, and office furniture is new – fitted to the updated standards – while existing storage components are primarily reused.

0w8a0164 0w8a0038

Designed to meet LEED Silver requirements, the project provides the City with modernized offices featuring newly efficient lighting, more daylight access, and greater collaborative space, all delivered within a modest budget.  TKB was a subconsultant to Johnson Lasky Kindelin on this project.

To see more photos of this project, click here.

 

Apr, 2021

Illinois Capital Development Board Announces Design Firm for Rebuild Illinois Funded Renovation of State Armory Building

Tilton, Kelly + Bell is excited to be a part of this exciting new project with the Illinois Capital Development Board!

To read more about it, please visit the Capital Development Board’s website.

Dec, 2020

Happy Holidays From TKB!

Happy Holidays from the TKB Team to you and yours!

Jun, 2020

TKB Newsletter – June 22, 2020 – Wayfinding and Signage

COVID-19 has forced companies and individuals everywhere to adapt, creating new procedures and guidelines for everything from wearing a mask to safely navigating a business. Now comes the new challenge of communicating these measures in an easy to understand way. Signage is a simple and effective way to share your message but can easily be muddled by poor text, graphics, or placement. Listed below are a few simple strategies to keep in mind when creating your own signage.

newsletter-005-graphic

 

Visit the CDC website below for general guidelines on social distancing. Re-opening strategies as recommended by the CDC post the pandemic: https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/activepeoplehealthynation/strategies-to-increase-physical-activity/prompts-to-encourage-physical-activity.html

 

Industry Solutions:

Effective Wayfinding and Coronavirus (COVID-19) Signage for Hospitals, Health Systems, and Medical Centers

How Brands Are Revamping Their Logos and Taglines During COVID-19

https://www.cgdetroit.com/post-covid-signage/

Hospital Wayfinding Program at Kaleida Hospital

 

May, 2020

TKB Newsletter – May 26, 2020 – Movement After COVID

You’ve set safe strategies for returning to work within the office. What about the building as a whole? Most office spaces reside in commercial buildings with shared amenities; and building owners and landlords now face the tremendous task of ensuring the safe use and occupancy of common areas such as lobbies, elevators, and lounges. Listed below are a few simple strategies to maintain safety in your building post pandemic.

movement-patterns

Visit the CDC website below for general guidelines on social distancing. Re-opening strategies as recommended by the CDC post the pandemic:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/organizations/workplace-decision-tool.html

 

Industry Solutions:

https://www.archdaily.com/940131/back-to-work-rethink-re-evaluate-retrofit-for-safer-workplaces

https://www.archdaily.com/940244/domino-park-introduces-social-distancing-circles-to-adapt-to-the-covid-19-crisis

https://www.duthermx.com/

The Workplace Watch Vol. 3

 

 

TKB Newsletter – May 18, 2020 – The New Normal

As we prepare to reenter the workspace the primary focus is the safety and well being of employees. Across the industry companies have been active to plan, design, and develop solutions on how to make the office a safe space in this new normal. TKB would like to share what appears to be a general consensus from these many plans on the steps of reentry, along with a few of these well thought out guides to peruse at your leisure.

new-normal-image

 

Visit the CDC’s website below for general guidelines on strategies to be followed in order to create a safe working environment:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/index.html

 

Industry Solutions:

https://www.nationalofficefurniture.com/NOF/media/general/work_at_home/COVID19-Workplace-Evolution.pdf

https://www.us.jll.com/content/dam/jll-com/documents/pdf/other/reentry-guide-for-working-in-the-next-normal.pdf

https://www.hermanmiller.com/content/dam/hermanmiller/documents/covid_19/embracing_a_new_reality.pdf

 

 

TKB Newsletter – May 12, 2020 – Sanitation Solutions – How Do We Disinfect?

With the continual increase in COVID 19 infections, there has been a surge in the need to clean and disinfect our workplaces and homes. This week’s TKB Newsletter aims to provide you with cleaning techniques and introduce innovative products that are in the market to address this issue.

sanitation-solutions-image

The Center for Disease Control has issued cleaning techniques and mitigation strategies for the workplace that explain in detail how to clean surfaces to reduce the rate of infections. The first category would include cleaning all surfaces with soap and water, for more intense and thorough cleaning, disinfectants recommended by the CDC can be used to further lower the rate of infections and kill germs. Use the link to refer to a list of CDC approved disinfectants and cleaning techniques.

As we progress into unsteady territories, the industry is developing new and innovative solutions to help clean and enhance sterile environments, from disinfecting UV lights to hand sanitizer dispensing door knobs.

Check out some of the interesting products in the market and stay tuned for the TKB’s weekly Newsletter.

 

Visit the CDC website below for general guidelines on cleaning, EPA approved disinfectants to reduce risk of infection and general mitigation strategies:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/clean-disinfect/index.html

 

Industry Solutions:

Products

Hygienic Door Handles

https://touchland.com/pages/kub

https://kenall.com/Kenall-Files/Product-Files/Literature/Kenall-Indigo-Clean-Brochure.pdf

https://www.stepnpull.com/

TKB Newsletter -May 6, 2020 – What’s Next? COVID-19 Protocols

As the world gets ready to get back to work, one question lingers in all of our minds, “are we ready?”; the COVID19 pandemic has changed the course of our life in every aspect. Before the pandemic, we would walk around freely with our coffees, enter the office and say our hello’s, come in contact with a number of persons to create a harmonious work environment. Now, we are cautious, scared and anxious to be in such environments; this has had a direct impact on how offices will be designed and how people will interact with one another in the future

Several questions pop up when we think of how an office would re-acclimate to its user needs. Would we have all our workstations six feet apart? Would we have tall shields that enclose our workstations and protect us from infection spreads? What types of materials would we avoid in order to promote a hygienic environment?

social-distancing-in-the-workplace

Source Image: http://www.todayssystems.com/blog/2017/7/13/6-questions-to-ask-employees-before-designing-your-office-space

These are questions everyone is asking, some industry members have initiated and brought design solutions for the workplace post COVID19. The TKB family brings to you a few design solutions from the industry all under one roof.

Stay tuned for more insight next week!

 

Visit the CDC website below for general guidelines and mitigation strategies at the workplace:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-business-response.html

Industry Solutions:

https://www.knoll.com/design-plan/planning/considerations-for-returning-to-a-healthy-workplace

www.hermanmiller.com/covid-19/form/

https://www.allsteeloffice.com/spaces-inspiration/inspiration/designing-new-realities

Post-COVID Workplace

Load More Posts
overflow: hidden