“Workplace strategy needs to be about more than just driving down costs and maximizing the utilization of assets: it must be about enabling productivity and collaboration” stated Mike Gedye, Executive Director at leading commercial property and real estate services adviser CBRE. Speaking at the Smart Buildings 17 event in London at the end of May, Gedye highlighted that; “we have undoubtedly reached an inflexion point in the evolution of the workplace.” He believes that “developers, tenants and technology companies are all hungry to promote smarter workplaces,” and asked, “what’s holding the industry back?” @MikeGedye explore how to make space work smarter #smartbuildings @CBRE_UK pic.twitter.com/q97cvdwife — Unwired Ventures (@unwired) May 23, 2017 The concept of the smart building is certainly, at least, 25 years old, many would suggest its origins lie in the 1980s, more than 30 years ago, some even claim it is an idea that first emerged in the 1960s. Yet here we are […]