Office of the Future

In the next ten years I believe the concept of the traditional office will be gone. The use of virtual reality devices, perfected to be small and portable will allow real-time communication from anywhere on earth, and perhaps in portions of the universe. Office data will be recorded and stored in personal hand help powerful computers.

This will affect our concept of "downtown." Office space will be recycled into housing, not unlike what has happened to loft space in regentrified, older center cities.

More leisure time will be available, if only from saved commuting time as well as efficient business practices. This will create an unprecedented demand for theaters, restaurants, sporting facilities.

From a construction industry point of view, the client's need to shorten the "time to market" will challenge our reactionary industry. More components of building systems will be prefabricated and modularized, straining the builders traditional thinking, workrules, overhead expenses, and educational quality of personnel.

Jack Woolf
President
Construction Solutions, Charlotte, N.C

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