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CANNON DESIGN CHICAGO OFFICE RELOCATION

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Cannon Design’s Chicago office, certified under LEED for Commercial Interiors, relocated to Michigan Plaza, two adjacent mixed-use office towers in Chicago’s central business district. The company’s former longtime home spread employees and operations across four different floors, so this move marked a watershed: for the first time Chicago office employees are now able to occupy a single, contiguous 60,000 square foot floor that spans two buildings. Ultimately, this is a workplace designed to benefit the people that work in it. Prior to relocating to this space, the project team conducted an online survey open to all employees to estimate the percentage of time employees dedicated to formal and informal collaboration, learning, personal head-down work time and socialization. The space plan for the project responded to needs identified in this survey. In all, the design incorporates twenty different workplace setting types to encourage all employees to work in the manner that best suits each individual’s style and the task at hand. Canon Design also valued an energy-efficient space, and used the site selection process to achieve their goals—the chosen building is certified under ENERGY STAR and achieved Gold under the LEED O+M rating system.

An interactive sustainability reporting dashboard occupies a prominent space in the heart of the office, immediately adjacent to the library and central gathering space. This dashboard tracks real-time energy consumption within the office and also displays other key annual environmental measures for the office, including waste management, water consumption and vehicle miles traveled. To learn more about the Cannon Design Chicago office visit usgbc.org/projects/cannon-design-chicago-office-relocation

Photo by Christopher Barrett

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