Designing Offices Well (DOWell)

Improving workers’ productivity, satisfaction and health through evidence-based design

Designing Offices Well (DOWell)

DOWell aims to describe, quantify and analyse the positive and negative impacts of workspace design, and Activity-Based Working in particular, on workers’ satisfaction, productivity and health.

Selected publications

Candido, C., Marzban, S., Haddad, S., Mackey, M, Loder, A. (2020). Designing healthy workspaces: results from Australian certified open-plan offices. Facilities. (in press)

In the media

Project details

Major sponsor

Australian Research Council - Discovery scheme (DP190100705)

Project team

A/Prof Christhina Candido

Prof Dian Tjondronegoro (Griffith University)

A/Prof Martin Mackey (The University of Sydney)

Dr Fan Zhang (Griffith University)

Dr Zhoungua Gou (Griffith University)

Dr Lina Engelen (The University of Sydney)

Prof Alexi Marmot (UCL)

Key contact

A/Prof Christhina Candido