It may look a lot different when – or if – you come back. Furniture and accessory suppliers offer advice on how to plan for those changes, and companies discuss how they are evolving operations. Working from home has become the norm for many local workers – and it may stay that way after the COVID-19 pandemic...
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There isn't a business that isn't considering what it needs to change in its physical environment to meet both mandates from government as well as customer and employee expectations regarding health, hygiene and safety concerns surrounding the coronavirus. PBN checked in with experts of office space, plus banks and hotels, to find out what they're planning....
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Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. We launched Stage 1 of our re-opening on June 8. For Stage 1, we are still encouraging our staff to work from home and limiting staff in office to 50% of our full capacity. Staff who plan to work...
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Honolulu’s central business district these days is not hustling and bustling the way it was prior to when stay-at-home orders went into effect in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, when offices were permitted to reopen, traffic continued to remain light. Many companies with offices downtown are in no hurry to reopen, with some...
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How are you coping amid COVID-19 crisis? G70 has transitioned to a work-from-home platform for 100% of our architectural, interior design, planning and engineering staff. All meetings have migrated to a teleconferencing format. Our physical office is closed except for deliveries. We have cancelled or postponed all travel. Did your business continuity plan work or were there...
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Indigenous cultures and the cultures of tourism don’t typically harmonize with each other they seem to have different DNA. And when mixed together, like salt water mixing with fresh, the energy of the place tends to become culturally brackish. But when the art—important art—mixes with a tourist district effectively, hopefully a bit of cultural literacy follows...
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Executives from all sections of the hospitality sector gathered at PBN’s Downtown Honolulu office recently to talk about the industry and the direction Hawaii is headed. Participants included Peter Ingram, chief commercial officer, Hawaiian Airlines; Linda Miki, vice chair and principal, Group 70 International; Elizabeth Churchill, chief revenue officer, Aqua-Aston Hospitality; David Uchiyama, chief commercial officer,...
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Kaoru Lovett is an architectural designer, surfer, and filmmaker—but not necessarily in that order. Last year, he and fellow University of Hawaii at Manoa graduates Ronald Ribao and Graham Hart took home the People’s Choice award and third place overall in the AIA’s Look Up Film Challenge with Mixed Plate: The Architecture of Hawaii, a three-minute...
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The upcoming $61 million redevelopment of the Waikiki Trade Center as a new condotel will further shrink Hawaii’s available office space. “There has been a steady climb of activity in the sale of office properties in Hawaii over the past 24 months,” says Matthew Bittick, CBRE Brokerage Services senior vice president. Bittick notes that the state...
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Raising a family in a safe home is a struggle for many in Hawaii, and that’s something Group 70 International’s principal and director of civil engineering Paul Matsuda, P.E., LEED AP, hopes to change. Read full article here
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