Tag: control room design
Value of mock-ups in co-designing workspaces
We have recently completed the design phase of work for a new Emergency Operations Centre for the South East Coast Ambulance Service. The centre will bring together two existing sites to co-locate them into a new facility which will provide a significantly better working environment. As is often the case, the physical move is accompanied by organisational change in the way they work with new roles and...
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New control room at London Bridge Station goes live
It was great to see the new control room at London Bridge Station go live in May. CCD supported the design of the room as part of our work on the redevelopment of the station with WSP and Grimshaws. We helped the project with a participatory design process for the room through running a full scale mock-up trial with the Network Rail operations team along with the...
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CCD at control room design summit in UAE
CCD will be one of the four companies showcasing at the Control Room Design Summit being held in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in April 2016. The Control Room Summit has been specifically tailored to provide Industry professionals, a unique opportunity to gain access to a showcase product launch and whitepaper from leading industry providers on the future of Control Rooms. All attendees of the event...
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Factoring the human experience into new airport technologies
At the Transport Security Expo conference, being held in London this week, CCD’s Karen Jackson is talking with Steve Maggs from Gatwick Airport about the work we’ve been doing with them on Passenger Remote Screening. In anticipation of the conference talk, Karen and Steve were interviewed about the work – you can download the interview here We collaborated with Gatwick Airport on the conversion of...
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Designing control rooms to promote wellbeing & productivity
David Watts will be presenting at the annual IBC Control Room conference asking why control rooms haven’t traditionally learnt the lessons from workspace design on producing more human spaces. To minimise the risk of distraction etc control rooms are often austere spaces with minimal decoration or green spaces; or sometimes, in contrast, they are over-elaborate spaces designed to create eye catching visuals for the operator’s brand....
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Conferences are coming…
Just a bit of news that CCD staff are presenting at four conferences in the next few months First of all, Adam Parkes is presenting on our SAMMIE work at a seminar at IMechE titled “Human factors in 3D – humans in engineering design“. If you want to go, get your skates on as it is next week (2nd October). Then David Watts will be...
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