Emergent Integrated Development in the Post-Covid-19 Environment: Industry, Workplace, Community & the Importance of WELL Webinar

Recorded On: 05/18/2020

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COVID-19 has accelerated the already changing nature of commerce and work and introduced a new layer of considerations for development. Prior to the outbreak, we saw commerce change due to e-commerce’s exponential trajectory, increased demand for immediate goods, and the rise of urban industrial development to fulfill last-mile need. All of these factors have created the now accelerated need for more urbanized solutions and the inclusion of a better-integrated workforce. The emergent need for a more resilient, reliable and reconfigurable supply chain that is more locally grounded will drive this change even further.

In this session, KSS Architects Partner Ed Klimek, AIA, NCARB will discuss how industrial and office development can respond to these changes in order to bring the most value in a post-COVID-19 world. Ed will explore questions such as, “Why go back to work in the office?” and offer insight on how workplace design can support the meaning of work as well as how more integrated local development can support workers. He will address how principles of the WELL Building Standard — which are adapting to balance workers’ health and safety with social and wellness needs — can help create more integrated, yet safe, environments where we live, work, make and play.

Speaker: Ed Klimek, AIA, NCARB, partner, KSS Architects

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Edmund Klimek Klimek, AIA

Partner Emeritus

KSS Architects

After 32 years with KSS, and having been a partner for more than 20, Ed has moved onto a next phase where he is working to bring together his passion for design and his understanding of social justice into pursuits aimed at Integral Sustainability, the just and verdant continuum between humans and the world we share.
While he has retired from the firm, Ed maintains a close collaborative relationship with KSS. Recently, that collaboration has included a study aimed at understanding Industrial Land Use in the City of Philadelphia in support of its greater equitable and sustainable objectives as well as completing a research project for NAIOP, “Designing for Wellness in Distribution Centers.”
Ed has built a reputation for exceptional design and innovation, having designed hundreds of office, industrial, government, and higher education projects, many award winning.
He has lectured at MIT and presented extensively at industry conferences on subjects as broad as library archives, workplace strategy, and integral sustainability.
Beyond architecture, Ed leads a microlending project in Guatemala and obtained a Master’s in Global Development and Social Justice from St. John’s University in 2021.