Lewis and Clark State Office Building

Formerly Named Green Office Building

Systems Furniture

For most department employees, the workspace design in the "green" building will include a single "backbone" wall – similar in height to current cubicle walls – and three shorter walls. Examples of this workspace style are available online. There are two basic reasons for the design strategy of using lower wall height for cubicle East/West walls. One is to give all cubical occupants a view of the windows and connection to the outside environment. The second is to provide daylight the most unobstructed path to the central part of the building.

The economic, environmental and social benefits of daylighting PDF include:

Saving energy dollars by reducing the need for artificial lighting, which adds to the electrical load as well as the building cooling load.
Reducing power plant source pollution and natural resource consumption.
Improving the indoor environmental quality with better light.
Providing the full spectrum of visible light, which, in turn, provides greater color rendering of objects.
Increasing productivity and decreasing employee workdays lost to illness.

Below are a few Web sites for additional information:

There may be some concerns of privacy, but this is something that all employees will have to deal with in their own way as well as learning to respect coworkers privacy needs.

The above information has been provided by the Missouri Energy Center, by Frank Cunningham. It is important to understand the concept of systems furniture design as it is related to the daylighting functions of the building.

Systems Furniture Design Information PDF

80 square foot cubicle styles: A1 PDF, A2 PDF, A3 PDF
64 square foot cubicle styles: B1 PDF, B2 PDF,