J+J Flooring to Provide Funding for 2017 SAGE POE Project

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 Evaluations (POE). POEs are used to improve the ways that buildings are designed and used to support productivity and well-being. Traditionally, POEs have been more common in office buildings, schools and universities, hotels, and hospitals. The multi-step, multi-year program will be the first-of-its-kind within the combined flooring and senior lifestyle spaces, according to the companies, and provide a sustainable platform to conduct ongoing post-occupancy evaluations of physical environments for older adults that involves the collaboration of 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 sector during the development, implementation, presentation and publication of the report. J+J will also participate in all phases of the partnership and the POE process. The partnership will enable SAGE to build a robust library of POEs, a first step to fortifying current and future POE tools for collecting usable data on evidence-based design outcomes.