Kevin Kampschroer is the Director of Research Expert Services for the General Services Administration’s Public Buildings Service. Focusing on the relationships among the physical environment, individual and group behavior and organizational performance, Mr. Kampschroer has developed a framework—of building + behavior + business—tested in real office conditions, that is unique. His research team’s goal is a fundamental re-thinking of the practice of workplace making. To support this ground-breaking effort, he has forged alliances with key forward-thinking companies, and developed collaborations with leading universities, including Carnegie Mellon, University of California at Berkeley, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan and MIT.

In creating the WorkPlace 20·20 program, Mr. Kampschroer and his team have applied all the research completed to date, together with best practices in the field to create a new process that emphasizes organizational performance before design. In its pilot stage Workplace 20·20 will develop and deliver between 25 and 40 projects for Federal customers over the next 3-4 years. Each project couples the new workplace making process with research in the ultimate effectiveness of spatial objectives to influence productivity and organizational performance.

Before establishing PBS’ research and workplace innovations initiatives, Mr. Kampschroer served in a variety of GSA regional and headquarters positions. He contributed to the creation of real estate portfolio management, establishment performance measures linked to pay and budget and developed an overall information technology strategy for a re-engineered real estate business in GSA. He was the project manager for the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Trade Center, then the second largest office building in the United States. GSA has employed him since 1975. Mr. Kampschroer is a graduate of Yale University.

Kevin has lectured at Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins and Georgia Institute of Technology and frequently presents for various industry groups such as CoreNet Global. He is the Research Chair for the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium (at Carnegie Mellon University) and the Industry Partner Chair for the Center for the Built Environment (at the University of California at Berkeley). He is the recipient of the IIDA’s Star Award for 2004.

His most recent publications are a book on the research results, Workplace Matters, and an article in the California Management Review, “Creating and Testing Workplace Strategy” (Winter, 2007)