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Through the latest Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, our smart commercial buildings promise to improve the health, wellbeing, and safety of their occupants like never before. Yet, as Europe goes into lockdown, the majority of the continent’s commercial real-estate sits empty, offering few answers to the novel dangers brought up by the COVID-19 pandemic. While […]

Office construction is on the rise. Since 2010, a boom has been underway around the world — with activity set to peak in 2020 at close to 19 million square meters globally, similar to levels at the height of the last two cycles in 2001 and 2008. The current economic upswing impacts the commercial real […]

Capital Tower, in Singapore, is one of the buildings vying for the honor of the “oldest smart building in the world”. While building management systems had long been helping us run our buildings, when the Captial Tower was built in 2000, the 52-story structure was celebrated for its energy efficiency, real-time car park status, and […]

“Climate change is undoubtedly the greatest challenge of our times. We need to take urgent action to almost halve global emissions by 2030 and eliminate them completely by the middle of the century,” says Julie Hirigoyen, Chief Executive at UKGBC. “It is in this context that the term ‘net zero carbon’ has started to enter […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Software is a critical component in the lifecycle of a commercial building, starting from the design, planning and construction phases through to building operations and facility maintenance; followed by refurbishment and renovation before the final demolition phase. Until recently, the design and construction […]

At the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, the CEO of JLL explained why “data is absolutely critical” to the firm. This from the 2nd largest commercial real estate brokerage and service provider in the world shows the extent to which technology will shape the next decade in property. The interview continued, “Ulbrich highlighted […]

This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. At the World Economic Forum event in Davos in Jan 2020, Christian Ulbrich, CEO of JLL spoke with Business Insider remarking that space utilization technology was likely to have a particularly high impact for the company by lowering costs and creating better employee […]

We have published a report called Occupancy Analytics & In-Building Location Based Service which is a comprehensive evaluation of the market within the commercial office space. It provides an up-to-date assessment of the emerging market for IoT technology platforms, which locate and map people, assets and workspaces. A major trend reshaping the smart buildings market […]