J+J Flooring Group and The Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments (SAGE) have formed a partnership to establish the 2017 SAGE Post-Occupancy (POE) Evaluation Project. The multiyear program will provide a sustainable platform to conduct ongoing POEs of physical environments for older adults that involve collaboration among numerous stakeholders.
J+J Flooring Group will provide funding for resources and administrative support for the SAGE POE. SAGE will work with J+J Flooring Group to leverage the company’s experts and relationships in the senior living space during the development, implementation, presentation and publication of the POEs. Additionally, J+J will participate in all phases of the partnership and the POE process. The partnership will enable SAGE to build a library of POEs, which is a significant first step to fortifying current and future POE tools for collecting usable data on evidence-based design outcomes.
POEs are used to improve the ways that buildings are designed and used to support productivity and well-being. Traditionally, POEs have been more commonplace in office buildings, schools and universities, hotels and hospitals.
