What is behavior-based space programming?

The Reworc Platform aims to make it easy to create highly effective workplaces. By analyzing how work is done in WorkNavigator, there is a clear picture of how best to support that work. SpacePro aims to re-use that knowledge and make it easy to use it when capturing the space requirements for a given population.

In many advanced space planning solutions, and in the legion home-grown excel templates created for similar purposes, there are often 'parametric' rules that define the required spaces.

Let's work with an example to make this more clear. Some examples of parametric space programming rules would be: 

1. For every employee, there is one workstation.
2. For every department, there is one VP office.
3. For every 100 employees, there are 90 workstations
   1. 45% of these is of type collaboration
   2. 15% of these is of type focus
   3. 20% of these is of type formal meeting
   4. 20% of these is of type informal interaction

These rules cannot use the work style information provided by WorkNavigator, which would better accommodate their implicit needs (for concentration and collaboration across different activities).

SpacePro also supports this kind of parametric rules, but it also allows you to go a couple of steps further. SpacePro allows you to map behaviors (activities people do, and the level of complexity and collaboration) to Work settings (a type of seat with specific characteristics such as: 'suitable for short, informal interaction), in turn, you can create parametric rules that use those Work settings. So instead of guessing and fixating the percentage of informal interaction, the population's actual workstyles are driving the process.

That is behavior-based space programming, and it is what you do with SpacePro.