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The positivity of change
Saving costs by reconsidering the office space planning

The real-estate costs are sometimes the second expense item in a company’s accounts after the personnel. Yet this kind of costs is often considered as immutable due to a lack of suitable tools to assess them. But we learned from experience that only if we take “change” into consideration we can attain positive, concrete results to be assessed in economic data, independently of the fact that according to the feasibility study we should opt for a relocation or the change of the existing situation on the current site.

Kinnarps Environmental Report
A holistic approach to sustainability

Every year Kinnarps gathers the data concerning its commitment to environmental protection in a scientific report called Environmental Report. The drawing up of the yearly report is an excellent opportunity to assess what has been achieved and to set the new goals that are going to shape the future scenarios. Here you’ll find the highlights of the last 2008 edition.

Vegetable Architecture
Plants, a design and wellbeing element

Green is good for the body and the spirit, too, that’s nothing new. Several studies show the undeniable advantages related to the purification of the air produced by the plants in confined spaces, but the sound-absorbent function and the “relaxing” function for the sight should not be neglected. In additional, according to several surveys the wish of green areas in working places is one of the user’s primary requirements, besides physical and mental wellbeing. The role played by the plants isn’t just an ornamental one: being a living organism, they produce an emotional interaction and help to create a more environmentconscious company culture and image.

The “Basics” of the market
Statistical parameters of the office building segment in Milan

By “Basics” of the office market (or business buildings) we mean those statistical parameters allowing to show a certain market to an outsider in a clear and exhaustive manner. In Italy, the field of property hunting and the processing of its statistical data is a comparatively recent one, the influence of more mature markets, like the Anglo-Saxon and Central Europe, drove our country to come into line with the international quality standards. So we changed from a quite closed property market formed by just a few local dealers to a more mature and transparent international market. Companies like Jones Lang LaSalle played a basic role in this radical change and they keep developing the international expertise and culture in our country.