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 […]