Leading approaches to planning and construction of modern business parks and office centres

摘要

Our paper focuses on the leading approaches to planning and construction of business parks that represent the novel type of office buildings. Business parks gained wide popularity in the past several decades and now represent the fastest-growing segment of the office building stock. Nowadays, planning and construction of modern business parks and office centres involves maintaining a certain code and specific rules that involve sustainability, energy efficiency, energy saving, and the use of renewable energy sources (RES). We find that the requirements for the office buildings in the 21st century are quite different and more fastidious that those imposed in the previous century. Our analysis reveals that the prerequisites for urban planning and architecture connected to modern business parks is quite similar worldwide. In appears that all projects follow the same pattern and copy each other functionality and other feature. Moreover, it appears that the usage of modern office building is also following the same pattern with coworking being on the rise as the number of global nomads is increasing. Our results show that modern business parks and office centres constitute the new step in the modernisation and the development of the global and digital economy, yet they are required as the hubs for socialisation and networking.