Smart Buildings

Mapping the Strategic Direction of CBRE Global Workplace Solutions

This Research Note examines the emerging strategic priorities of CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) in the smart commercial buildings space. We have mapped M&A, divestments, strategic partnerships and investment activity to ascertain the growth ambitions of the business, by categorizing the various business relationships by technology and investment type over a 3-year period between January 2020 and November 2022.  CBRE Group Inc, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) business, acquired from Johnson Controls in 2015, provides a broad suite of integrated, contractually based outsourcing facilities management services to occupiers of real estate. As of December 31, 2021, GWS facilities management revenues (excluding project management) amounted to $4.8 billion, achieved through managing approximately 4.4 billion square feet of facilities. Our strategy mapping exercise highlights 9 acquisitions, 1 partnership, 1 divestment and 4 venture capital investments of relevance over the last three […]

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