BCO Annual Conference Speaker Spotlight: Lord Norman Foster, Foster + Partners

The BCO are delighted to announce Lord Norman Foster will be speaking at the BCO Annual Conference.

Lord Foster is founder and chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, design and engineering.

Over the past five decades the practice has pioneered a sustainable approach to architecture and ecology through a wide range of work, from urban masterplans to offices, cultural buildings, airports and industrial design.

He has been awarded architecture’s highest accolades, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture in Japan, the RIBA Royal Gold medal and the AIA Gold medal. In 1999 he was honoured with a Life Peerage, becoming Lord Foster of Thames Bank.

View some of Lord Foster's impressive architectural work below:

Book your place at the BCO Annual Conference for the opportunity to attend Lord Foster's keynote address and for more details on the BCO Annual Conference programme visit bco.org.uk/conference.

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Spotlight on Julian Treasure

View Julian’s popular TED Talk, Why architects need to use their ears.

Julian’s vision is to make the world sound beautiful.

By helping companies to discover that good sound is also good business, Julian’s work has proved that sound can increase retail sales, customer satisfaction and brand value and The Sound Agency is now the undisputed world leader in assessing and transforming sound in shopping malls.

Widely featured as a sound and communication expert in the world’s leading media, including TIME Magazine and The Economist, Julian will apply the same logic to the sound of office space and help answer John Forrester’s burning questions;

• Is designing and delivering ever more efficient buildings for open plan supporting or destroying workforce output and productivity?

• Is hot desking to save a little rent creating a workforce of drifting corporate refugees or generating closer team working?

• Is the office industry simply not answering the exam question - how to get the most from the occupier's biggest investment, its people?

Julian is speaking in plenary session 1, Open Plan or Open Prison. Have We Unwittingly Created a Monster - The Under-Productive Workspace?, on Thursday 12 May 2016, 09:00-10:30.