International Workspace Studies Program

Franklin Becker, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair
3M02 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, DEA

Phone: (607) 255-1950
Fax: (607) 255-0305
Email: fdb2@cornell.edu
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Academic Expertise
My area of expertise is organizational ecology; that is, I study the way in which the planning, design, and management of complex organizations such as hospitals and large corporations and R&D units affect how individuals, teams, and organizations function.

 

Current Professional Activities
Professor Becker is a founding editor of the Journal of Corporate Real Estate and the Journal of Facilities Management, and is on the Advisory Board of the Health Environments Research and Design Journal. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a member of the International Facility Management Association.

 

Current Research Activities
Professor Becker's current research focuses on health and design. Specifically, he is involved with studies examining 1) the relationship of the physical design of outpatient facilities, including Emergency Departments, on patients, staff, and family; and 2) the influence of nursing unit design on communication and interaction patterns among multi-disciplinary clinical teams; and the effects of such communication on informal learning, job stress and patient safety.

 

Extension
Member of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Project Work Council (PWC) for Quality of Life for Individuals and Families. Professor Becker speaks often nationally and internationally on issues related to innovative workplace strategies.

 

Courses Taught
DEA 451/659 - Seminar in Facility Planning and Management

DEA 453/653 - Planning and Managing the Workplace: The Ecology of the Healthcare Environment

 

Education
PhD 1972 - University of California, Davis
Social and Environmental Psychology

MS 1970 - Boston University
Social Psychology

BA 1968 - University of California, Davis
Psychology

 

Related Websites
http://www.iwsp.human.cornell.edu

 

Selected Publications
Harris, D.D., Joseph, A., Becker, F., Hamilton, D.K., Shepley, M.M., and C. Zimring. The Practitioners Guide To Evidence-Based Healthcare Design. Concord, CA.: Center for Health Design, 2008.

 

Becker, F., Sweeney, B., and K. Parsons. (2008) Ambulatory facility design and patients perceptions of healthcare quality, Health Environments Research and Design Journal, 1(4), 35-54.

 

Becker, F., and Jones-Douglas, S. (2008) The ecology of the patient visit: Physical attractiveness, waiting times, and perceived quality of care, J. Ambulatory Care Management., 31(2), 124-137.

 

Becker, F. The ecology of knowledge networks. California Management Review. 49(2), 1-20.

 

Becker, F. Closing the research-design gap, Implications, 5(10), 1-5.

 

Nursing unit design and communication patterns: What is "real" work? Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 1(1), 1-20.

 

Becker, F., and Parsons, KI.S. Hospital facilities and the role of evidence-based design. Journal of Facilities Management, 5(4), 263-274.

 

Becker, F. (2004) Offices At Work: Uncommon Workscape Strategies that Add Value and Improve Performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

 

Becker, F., and Pearce, A. (2003) Considering Corporate Real Estate and Human Resource Factors in an Integrated Cost Model." Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 5(3), 221-242

 

Becker, F., and Sims, W., et al (2003) Interaction, identity and collocation: What value is a corporate campus?, Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 5(4), 344-366.

 

Becker, F. (2002) Organizational Dilemmas and Worksplace Solutions. Journal of Corporate Real Estate 4(2), 129-150.

 

Becker, F. (2002) Improving organizational performance by exploiting workplace flexibility, Journal of Facilities, 1(2), 154-163.

 

Becker, F. (2001) Organizational Agility and the Knowledge Infrastructure, Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 3(1), 28-37.

 

Becker, F. (2000) Integrated Portfolio Strategies for Dynamic Organizations, Facilities, 18)10-12), 411-420.

 

Administrative Responsibilities
Chair, Department Design & Environmental Analysis
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University

 

Director, International Workplace Studies Program
College of Human Ecology
Cornell University

 

Curriculum Vitae

Ying Hua, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
3M05 Martha Van Rensselaer, DEA

Phone: (607) 254-6415
Fax: (607) 255-0305
Email: yh294@cornell.edu
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Biographical Statement
Coming from an architecture background, Ying Hua is passionate about designing for sustainability, for occupant health, and for individual and organizational productivity.

 

Current Professional Activities
Co-Director, International Workplace Studies Program, Cornell University.
Member of the Committee of Academic Affairs, International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Foundation.

 

 

Current Research Activities
Ying Hua's research and teaching activities demonstrate a deep interest in design strategies to achieve sustainability, and a comprehensive understanding in human behavior and experience in the built environment. She has been conducting research on the effect of passive strategies on building energy performance, building systems integration, life-cycle analysis of green building strategies, building post-occupancy evaluation, and relationship between workplace environment and occupant perception and performance. The goal of her research is to inform the design, management and reengineering of various types of buildings to improve the performance of individuals and teams, as well as the sustainability of buildings and the larger environment. One of her courses is recently awarded the Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Incentive by the US Green Building Council (USGBC).

 

Dr. Hua is an active speaker on international conferences and workshops of green building design, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. As a 2009 Abe Fellow awarded by the Social Science Research Council and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, she is actively promoting the integration of stakeholders in the building delivery process and building life-cycle, including policy makers, developers, architects, engineers, facility managers and building occupants, to achieve the sustainable goal in the building sector.

 

Courses Taught
Spring 2008, 2009: Introduction to Building Technology (DEA2040)
Spring 2009: Facility Planning and Management Studio (DEA3540/6540)

 

Education
Ph.D., Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University
M. Engineering, Building Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China
B. Architecture, Zhejiang University, China

 

Selected Publications
Hua, Y. & Yang, X. (2008). Barriers for Green Building Practice in China. World Sustainable Building Conference (SB08), September 21-25, 2008, Melbourne, Australia.

 

Hua, Y. & Yang, X. (2007). Case Study of Lafarge China and Shui On Cement: Emission-related CSR in Chinese Cement Industry. In Hooker, J., J. F. Hulpke, P. Madsen (Eds.) Controversies in International Corporate Responsibility. Philosophy Documentation Center: Charlottesville, Virginia. 129-143.

 

Yang, X. and Hua, Y. (2006). A New Method for Measuring Urban Sustainability: Integrating Spatial Analysis and Metabolism Study. International Conference on Sustainability Measurement and Modeling (ICSMM2006), November 16-17, 2006, Barcelona, Spain.

 

Loftness, V., Hartkopf, V., Lam, K. P., Snyder, M. and Hua, Y.(2006). Sustainability and Health are Integral Goals for the Built Environment. Healthy Buildings 2006 ? Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, June 4-6, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.

 

Hartkopf, V., Loftness, V., Aziz, A. and Hua, Y. (2006). Ecology of Shelter Development: Professional and Educational Implications of Innovations in Building and Construction Demonstrated by the Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace (IW) and Expected from the Building as Power Plant (BAPP) / Invention Works Projects at Carnegie Mellon University. In Kefeli, V. and Leininger, C. (Eds.), Sustainability and Regeneration of Ecological Systems in Western Pennsylvania, USA: Research and Efforts. 89-98.

 

Loftness, V., Hartkopf, V., Gurtekin, B. and Hua, Y. (2005). Building Investment Decision Support (BIDS?) - Cost-Benefit Tool to Promote High Performance Components, Flexible Infrastructures and Systems Integration for Sustainable Commercial Buildings and Productive Organizations. 2005 AIA Report on University Research.

 

Yang, X. and Hua, Y. (2004). Wuhan vs. Pittsburgh: Urban Transformation of Old Industrial Cities under Globalization Impacts, City Futures conference, July 8-10, 2004, Chicago, IL. (This paper was chosen by the conference committee, among 10 out of 160, to submit to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to identify emerging urban issues.)

 

Hua, Y. and Yang, X. (2004). Urban Sustainability Issues of Chinese Small Cities, World Building Congress - CIB2004, May 2-7, 2004, Toronto, Canada.

 

Loftness, V., Aziz, A., Srivastava, V. and Hua, Y. (2003). Creating a National Environmental Assessment Toolkit (NEAT!) - Productivity Protocols for the Field Evaluation of Baseline Environmental Quality. USGBC International Green Building Conference, November 12-14, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Xu, L., Ge, J. and Hua, Y. (2002). Analysis on the Environmental Problems Accompanying High-speed Urbanization of Small Towns in China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 14 (1), 2002.