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Why You Should Use More Wood In Your Office

2024-05-28T22:38:58+00:00June 8th, 2024|Categories: Office Design, Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|Tags: , , , , , , |

    Weaving more natural elements, like wood, into indoor spaces is one of the biggest trends in modern architecture right now - wood architecture. Modern architecture has been reviving the nuts and berries architecture of the 60’s lately, favouring organic and natural houses and weaving more natural materials like wood into their work. The [...]

Make Good Choices

2024-05-28T22:01:25+00:00May 28th, 2024|Categories: Make Good, Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|

  Why is a Make Good an Important Matter to Consider? A Make Good can be an easily overlooked process for tenants that are moving out. It seems simple at first glance. Isn’t a Make Good just something you have to remember to do at the end of your lease? A promise to leave your [...]

RWCorkery&co Office officially opens in Chatswood

2023-01-22T23:05:23+00:00January 22nd, 2023|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|

  On 9th January 2023 RWC officially opened our Chatswood office at Suite 12.01, 1‑5 Railway Street, Chatswood NSW. Like many organisations coming out of COVID lock downs, integrating flexible working arrangement into our business culture and gradual changes in staff commuting patterns has presented challenges both in how we work, the culture of our [...]

Office design in the age of Covid

2024-01-23T07:06:51+00:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

  Covid-19 has meant seismic changes for modern offices. Zoom, flexible hours, time-shifting and work from home have had a huge effect on the way most companies function. But as vaccines roll out around the world and the “new normal” looms on the horizon, it’s time to start thinking about how office life – and [...]

How to Design Your Office for both Millennials and Baby Boomers

2021-01-20T00:29:40+00:00December 5th, 2019|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Millennials and Boomers have two drastically different philosophies in what they want out of their workspaces, and that can give rise to tension in the office. The Boomer generation preferred quiet spaces and privacy, creating the traditional cubicle office design, still commonly used by large organisations, with a need for internal procedures, standardisation and bureaucratic [...]

Design Smarter Open-Plan Offices

2021-07-23T23:13:30+00:00December 5th, 2019|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts, Office Lighting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The myth of open-plan offices generating more productivity has made open designs on trend since the early 2000s. Designers, architects and business owners alike tried to spark ideas and let businesses stand out from the crowd by getting rid of barriers like walls, cubicles and private offices. Barriers are unnecessary – giving everyone a space [...]

Complying Development Certificates (CDC)

2021-06-18T06:22:26+00:00February 7th, 2019|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|

What is a Complying Development Certificate (CDC)? Under NSW’s State Environmental Planning Policy, a CDC is designed to ensure compliance with various environmental and safety codes. While this may sound like a chore or overwhelming if you’re in charge of overseeing an office fit out, keep in mind that the certificate is referred to as [...]

Colour & Visual Comfort (Part 4)

2018-08-16T21:15:37+00:00August 16th, 2018|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|

Colour and the ways it is used in interior design has an impact on how we feel and how well we perform in that environment, there’s no doubt about it. But our preconceptions and common beliefs about how exactly colours will affect us don’t always hold true. The rigorous long-term study conducted by academics at [...]

Colour & Visual Comfort (Part 3)

2018-06-04T23:19:17+00:00June 4th, 2018|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|

A unique study conducted over 20 years by a team from the School of Architecture at the University of Texas examined the influence of colour within the office environment to properly understand how it affects those who work in it. They ran a series of four intriguing experiments, with some unexpected results. Study #1: Colour [...]

Colour & Visual Comfort (Part 2)

2018-04-13T04:30:19+00:00April 13th, 2018|Categories: Office Fit-outs, Office fitouts|

Colour has a direct impact on psychological wellbeing and productivity in the workplace. So it’s a key consideration in office and workplace design and planning. The authors of a study done at the University of Texas go so far as to say that designers have a responsibility to create harmony between colour and the intended [...]

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