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Best of NeoCon Gold and Interior Design HiP Award at NeoCon 2021

admin_jicdesign — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:47:51 +0000

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Best of NeoCon Gold and Interior Design HiP Award at NeoCon 2021

Office pod manufacturer SnapCab® won two prestigious awards at this year’s NeoCon, held October 4-6, 2021: Best of NeoCon Gold in the Work Pods category for the SnapCab Work+, and an Interior Design HiP Award in the Health and Wellness: Furniture and Seating category for the SnapCab Care.

October 20, 2021

NeoCon, the world’s leading event for the commercial design industry, is an annual tradeshow that welcomes over 700 international exhibitors. Best of NeoCon and the HiP Awards honor innovative commercial products in the architecture and design community.

The SnapCab Work+ offers an optimal work experience for open office environments. Employees can focus within a peaceful space while remaining visibly connected to their team. This pod utilizes a top-to-bottom air flow exchange, pulling fresh air in through ceiling fans and exiting through floor vents. This gives users a fresh environment with the cleanest air flow, exchanging fully every 90 seconds (available with optional HEPA filter).

This pod provides a quiet space to focus on a project, take a call or hold a virtual meeting without disrupting the rest of the office. It takes up less space than an individual office and the heavy-duty casters allow for the flexibility to change a floorplan. The pod can also be built directly on the ground for wheelchair accessibility.

The SnapCab Care was created through collaboration between the Kingston, Ontario medical community and SnapCab’s design team. Conceived as a solution for providing privacy in a large space, the first of its kind was installed in the COVID-19 Assessment Centre at the Beechgrove Complex in Kingston. The Care combines a private doctor’s office with a HEPA filter air intake and one-way glass to allow doctors to keep an eye on the medical facility, as well as an examination area for patients who require more critical care. Casters allow for it to be easily moved across the floor or reassembled in a new location as needed.

Not only are each of these pod products air safe, but they’re also seismic certified, UL Listed, and easy to clean, as are all SnapCab Workspace products. The Work+ and Care are just two of a series of SnapCab Workspace pod products designed for the office and home.

“We’re honored to be recognized for these new pod products that were ultimately designed as a response to needs during the pandemic,” says Glenn Bostock, SnapCab founder, CEO and lead designer. “Our main focus is on providing useful service to our customers, and now that many people are returning to the workplace, we are happy to be able to provide products that help people focus on their important tasks while keeping them safe.”

For more information or for interview requests, please contact Carla Bostock at Carla.Bostock@SnapCab.com

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Multiple DNA Paris Design Awards Wins

admin_jicdesign — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:10:35 +0000

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Multiple DNA Paris Design Awards Wins

SnapCab, an office pod manufacturer operating out of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, won multiple DNA Paris Design Awards for 2021.

August 3, 2021

In the category of Product Design/Furniture & Lighting, the SnapCab Meet 2 was the winner. Designed for productivity, the Meet 2 is a quiet sanctuary for those working from home. Stepping through the pod’s door leaves the noise and distractions of the home behind, and offers a professional, focused space for you to do your best work.

Being smaller in size than SnapCab’s other office pods, the Meet 2 is meant to fit comfortably in your home. A quiet ceiling fan ensures that fresh air is circulated continuously throughout your time in the workspace. The finishes, furniture, and accessories can be customized to adapt to your needs and look.

In the Product Design/Responsible Design category, the SnapCab Care took first place. The Care was created through collaboration between Kingston’s medical community and SnapCab’s design team. Conceived as a solution for providing privacy in a large medical space, the first of its kind was installed in the Kingston Health Sciences Centre COVID-19 Assessment Centre.

The Care combines a private doctor’s office with a HEPA filter air intake and one-way glass to allow doctors to keep an eye on the medical facility, as well as an examination area for patients who require more critical care. The Care was designed to face the wall so a gurney can be wheeled around the corner for ease of access and privacy. Plus, its heavy-duty casters allow it to be easily moved across the floor or reassembled in a new location when desired.

“We’re honored to be recognized for these new pod products that were ultimately designed as a response to needs during the pandemic,” says Glenn Bostock, SnapCab founder, CEO and lead designer. “Our main focus is on providing useful service to our customers, and now that many people are returning to the workplace, we are happy to be able to provide products that help people focus on their important tasks while keeping them safe.”

The new SnapCab Consult received an Honorable Mention in the Commercial and Offices category. The Consult allows for safe face-to-face consultation and collaboration. It is a mobile pod split into two smaller rooms separated by a glass partition. With air ventilation top of mind during the pandemic, each side of the pod is equipped with a dedicated HEPA filter. The sound-blocking exterior glass doors provide audio privacy and keep out distracting noise.

The SnapCab Work+ received Honorable Mentions in both the Workplace and the Furniture & Lighting categories. It is a spacious workspace for one, with an adjustable height desktop and fully customizable options. Not only are each of these pod products air safe, but they’re also seismic certified, UL Listed, and easy to clean, as are all SnapCab Workspace products.

For more information or for interview requests, please contact Carla Bostock at Carla.Bostock@SnapCab.com

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Recognized by Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Award

admin_jicdesign — Mon, 10 May 2021 22:36:57 +0000

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Recognized by Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Award

SnapCab has been recognized by Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards for designing and developing isolation and medical testing pods to help keep people safe during the pandemic.

May 10, 2021

The company received an honorable mention in the North American category for its response to the new needs of the workforce. When the pandemic hit, SnapCab founder and CEO Glenn Bostock realized that the meeting room pods the company designed and manufactured would no longer be of interest—at least for now.

“We quickly realized we had the design and manufacturing capabilities to develop medical testing pods for use by healthcare workers,” Bostock said. “We started connecting with local medical experts for advice and guidance because we had no background in the medical field, and we knew we wanted to help.”

SnapCab designed and developed several prototypes for medical testing pods and is now working with CannonDesign to bring a final product to market.

SnapCab’s pivot did not end there. With much of the office-bound workforce working from home, SnapCab took its Meet 4 and Meet 6 collaboration-style pod products and redesigned them into individual office pods called the Work and Work+. In addition, the team developed a Meet 2 home office pod, as well as the Consult — a two-person pod designed with a glass partition to provide a safe place for face-to-face interactions. The Consult has been coined the “God Pod” by the Globe and Mail, CTV News and other national media for its use in a church in Ottawa.

“We saw the need for people to return to the office, and we realized that our products were so flexible that we could help reinvent the office of the future by simply reworking our current pod designs into something more,” Bostock said.

Soon, SnapCab developed a “Kit ofParts” that included several pod designs with customizable frames, panels, finishes, colors, furniture, accessories and more.In addition, all SnapCab pods can connect to theSnapCab Connects hinging wall system that can be used to create small group work areas—a signature product to the pod market.

“Something we’ve learned is that people are not going to go back to work the same way that they did before the pandemic. There’s a need now for less office space, but space that is much more flexible where all offices and walls are mobile. That’s why we have designed this ‘Kit of Parts’ – to give people the tools they need to return to work.”

All in all, Bostock’s focus before the pandemic and throughout this pivot has been to be useful to customers, colleagues and the community.

“One thing we’ve learned from this is to start with trying to figure out how you can be useful and do something to help,” Bostock said. “The energy around that creates people who want to work with you and partners who want to help you. Look for the upside and build on that.”

Now in its fifth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 33 winners, more than 400 finalists, and more than 800 honorable mentions—with Health and Wellness, AI & Data among the most popular categories. A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 4,000entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. Plus, several new categories were added, including Pandemic Response, UrbanDesign, and Architecture. The 2021 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Brazil to Denmark to Vietnam.

The winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced earlier this week, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

Showcasing some of the world’s most inventive entrepreneurs and companies tackling exigent global challenges, Fast Company’s Summer 2021 issue hits newsstands May10.

“There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times. So, it’s important to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, impact, design, scalability, and passion to solve these problems,” says Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company.“ Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have discovered some of the most groundbreaking projects that have launched since the start of 2020.”

For more information or for interview requests, please contact Carla Bostock at Carla.Bostock@SnapCab.com

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