Ocee Design Limited

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

User Centred Design for Offices

This CPD looks at design ethnography in context and how to evaluate the effectiveness of different forms of research methods in relation to office design. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The background to design ethnography
- Discovery and validation during research
- Designing around fads and trends
- Myths around focus groups and surveys
- Data captured from design ethnography
- Common mistakes made

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Wellbeing and Productivity in Office Environments

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- Understanding how employees are distracted from tasks
- Business costs and the impact on productivity
- Linking wellbeing to productivity
- The cost of absenteeism and presenteeism
- Different forms of distraction affecting wellbeing and productivity

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Office Design and the Science of Movement

This CPD covers the science and effect on the human body of being sedentary at work. It relates to office designs that can inhibit normal everyday movements and provides suggestions around how designs can promote long term health. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- How lack of movement at work poses lifestyle risks
- How modern technology has robbed us of everyday movements
- The risk of focusing on how long we should sit or stand at work
- Why movement against gravity is key
- The scientific studies around why normal everyday movement is key to long term heath
- Office design ideas to promote normal everyday movements

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Office Acoustics

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- The basics of Office Acoustics
- The human response to sound
- Basic measures of sound
- ABC of acoustics
- What do the standards say about good design
- Why we should address acoustics in office environments

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Business, clients and services

Muskulosketal symptoms in office environments

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- Understanding pathophysiology of musculoskeletal symptoms
- To define neutral and none neutral postures and their relation to musculoskeletal symptoms
- To highlight the hidden cost of presenteeism caused by musculoskeletal symptoms
- Identify the factors that influence common musculoskeletal symptoms and their prevention subjective wellbeing
- To highlight that need to be considered to prevent musculoskeletal symptoms

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Ergonomics & Workplace Evolution

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- Understanding the advantages of good ergonomics in workplace design
- How working in office has evolved
- Identifying opportunities to improve workspaces
- Highlight ergonomic solutions for improved workspace design
- The future of office design

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Acoustics – debunking the myths

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- Why we should address acoustics in office environments
- The human response to sound and the basic measures of sound that influence the quality of acoustics in offices
- What do the standards say about good design
- Common misconceptions around acoustic design for offices
- What needs to be in place for good office acoustic design

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar