Dive Brief:

• The 2014 Design + Insights Survey from the Perkins + Wills architecture firm reports on what the companies designers around the world think will – or should – be important, and learning to build for powerful storms like Sandy tops the list.
• Another priority, as well as a challenge, will be trying to design buildings that can accommodate the different styles and priorities of workers who are a range of ages and who put different priorities on how workplaces should feel.
• A hard sell might be workplaces that encourage movement, which is better for workers' health but does not have a short-term payback that companies can readily see and measure.

Dive Insight:

Current green-building standards urge or even require monitoring systems that track resource use by buildings of certain sizes. Designers said they see that trend growing, and it's one where the bottom line and green goals appear to have no conflict.