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Employee's Health a Consideration in Building DesignsSprint is part of a small but growing movement that encourages business owners to construct or renovate buildings in ways that motivate -- or require -- employees to get more exercise. The premise is simple: Happier, healthier employees are more productive and reduce health care costs for their companies.
"Fifteen years ago, when you designed or developed an office building, everyone was concerned with making everything as convenient as possible," said Phil Dordai, a principal with Hillier, the Princeton, N.J., architectural firm that designed the Sprint campus. "The logic of what's important in design has shifted a bit to making people more active."
At Sprint, that meant putting parking garages around the campus, rather than next to buildings. Covered walkways link all 21 buildings; conference rooms and the four cafeterias are spread across the campus.
Other amenities include the three-story fitness center, a gymnasium, four courtyards with fountains and waterfalls, two jogging trails, an amphitheater, an eight-acre lake, recreation fields, an indoor winter garden and onsite retail stores.
"Those were the general strategies we used to make people walk a little bit more," Dordai said. "We designed around the pedestrian, rather than the car. You don't need to park right in front of your building. If people have to wa
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