Adaptive Work Environment at McKesson
With the company's first large-scale implementation of their AWE program, McKesson Corporation www.mckesson.com has opened new offices for 700 employees in Westminster, Colorado.  The program is being developed through projects involving the company’s McKesson Provider Technologies business unit with locations in Colorado and Georgia.  Overall program development underway includes metrics, engagement strategy, programming tools and solutions sets.  Early indications are that the new AWE work space dramatically increases capacity for collaboration and transparency for the business.

Packard Foundation working on new green headquarters building

EHDD Architecture www.ehdd.com of San Francisco has retained BPS as an advisor on workplace trends and strategies as part of their work with The David and Lucile Packard Foundation www.packard.org .  The Foundation is pursuing a net zero energy building and is studying sustainable aspects relating to the building as well as their organization.

Cisco developing the next generation workplace for engineering BU’s

Long-time BPS client Cisco www.cisco.com is developing their next generation work environment for key engineering business units as part of their San Jose campus expansion.  BPS is advising the project team on change management and communications strategies for this leading-edge effort.  As construction draws toward completion, BPS is working with the Cisco delivery team and also with the end-user clients to address workplace-related change management and communications issues.

Workplace Matters for the United States GSA

BPS is entering its second year of work together with the General Services Administration’s Office of Applied Science Workplace 20.20 program.

Our ongoing work with this innovative program includes:

• US District Court in Detroit, Michigan: new workplace strategy for the Court Clerk's Office Operations Group which is adapting to the rapid changes in technology and work process that impact their case management work.
• United States Bureau of Public Dept: a new engagement at the bureau's headquarters in Parkersburg, West Virginia for this division of the Treasury Department.  BPS has been retained to conduct a Deep Dive engagement to address this agency's workplace strategy.
• Multiple post-occupancy evaluations of projects completed by the Workplace 20.20 program identifying key impacts and opportunities related to both design/implementations processes and design solutions.

UC Merced Modifies Its Long Range Development Plan

Recent Army Corp of Engineers decisions related to seasonal wetlands has led the University of California Merced to undertake a revision of its long term development plan and implementation approach.  BPS is focusing on the programming elements of the update of what will be the 21st century’s first new research university campus.