THINK PIECES ARCHIVE

A New Year of Healthy Spaces and Coffee, Too

Happy New Year! At this time of year, we want to express our gratitude for our community of clients, partners, friends and neighbors....

Why Time Matters: The Compounding Effect of Schedule Optimization

The spaces we occupy have become more specialized over time. Advances in design and technology have led to sophisticated environments...

Ocean Plant Coming Soon to 800 Great Highway

Ocean Plant will be part laboratory to test and show indoor AQ, part retail outfitter with local artisans, part coffee station, and...

Presidio Tunnel Tops Park - Worth The Wait

Photo: Brontë Wittpenn / The Chronicle By Marijke Smit Last weekend my family and I visited the newly opened Tunnel Tops Park in the...

Reducing Erosion

By: Nate Goore MKThink’s development of an agriculture facility on the former Gaye and Robinson sugar plantation in Kaumakani Hawai’i not...

Creating Campus Community Through a Culture of Performance and Play

Hillbrook School was founded on the belief that the environment raises the child and has maintained a long tradition of learning through...

Reimagining The Future of Play at Marin Country Day School

The Marin Country Day School actually wants its students to get dirty. Unfortunately, decades of outdoor play was beginning to erode ‘The...

Inverting the Entries at the Silicon Valley Quadrus Campus

By: Nate Goore At the Quadrus campus on Silicon Valley’s Sand Hill Road, MKThink transformed an aging 1970s office facility into one of...

MKThink Analytics Driving Healthy Classrooms

MKThink deployed a network of sensors to monitor air quality in Hawai’i public school classrooms. The findings are being used to...

Fewer Days in the Office -- Peak Occupancy Falls From 60% to 40%

A recent article in wtopNews interviewed a moving and logistic specialist about the future of workplace post-pandemic. Among other...

How to Optimize and Promote Healthy Buildings Through Technology and Data Analysis

According to Buildings Magazine, there is some important things to think about in our future regarding the improvement of life quality....

How Technologies in Commercial Design are a Catalyst for Growth

The FreePress Journal released an article that talks about how technological disruptions are changing commercial interior design. After...

Offices Market: A Sector with Major Changes After the Pandemic

After the pandemic, hybrid and remote work have become more common than before. Offices are not a place focused to work anymore, but...

Planning Uncertain Futures...Flexibly

We recently made a video overview of our project with the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Check it out! #assetoptimization

Businesses of the future: Sharing assets

The BBC released an article that shares how businesses are starting to share and saving more money than ever before. How? Well this is...

Pre and post covid space optimization trends that define workplaces

The workplace market is constantly changing. The pandemic triggered some of these transformational processes but change was already...

How to optimize building space and material use

The optimization regarding materials used in buildings is a very important factor in the life cycle environmental impact. The use of...

How to optimize office spaces in order to impact positively to workers

According to Fellowes Workplace Wellness Trend Report: “93% of workers in the tech industry said they would stay longer at a company who...

Hybrid Workplace Rooted in Sustainability

Forbes released an article this month that illustrates how The U.S. The Department of Energy (DOE) has been articulating different...

Workplace of the Future is the Perfect Combination of a Coffee Shop, Your Home and the Office

Bloomberg released a publication that analyzes how the workplace of the future should be. The traditional way to work, after the...