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M&A in the Smart Buildings Space Maintains Momentum in Q1 2019
April 15th, 2019“The Primacy of People & High-Quality User Experiences are Set to Dominate CRE Decision-Making”
April 12th, 2019
Co-Working: Does the Hype Match the Reality?
Co-working and the rise of workplace-as-a-service may be the dominant real estate story of 2018. With real estate firms like Boston Properties, Tishman Speyer, among others, starting to offer their own co-working brands (or planning to launch them), this market will continue to be scrutinised in 2019. There are other entrants, too. Office Depot has […]
Smart Lighting Platform Leads to 50% Space Reduction for Real Estate Firm
Real estate companies can be tenants too, and when they are tenants in a smart building the technology can influence their decisions in the same way it does for their real estate clients. That’s what is happening in a four-story building near Schiphol airport, just outside Amsterdam, where $14.2-billion real estate services firm CBRE is […]
“Most People Don’t Realize how Buildings can Affect our Health & Wellbeing”
How do office workers respond to artificial lighting that simulates natural light? How do changes of indoor environmental conditions affect sleep and stress? What types of indoor environment intervention can increase cognitive performance and improve job satisfaction? In order to answer these questions and others, Minnesota-based Well Living Lab recently announced an extensive three-year scientific […]
The Crucial Role of Start-Ups in Occupancy Analytics & In-Building Location Based Services
Start-ups are playing a crucial role in the development of the occupancy analytics, explains the latest report from Memoori: Occupancy Analytics & In-Building Location Based Services 2017 to 2022. The report comprehensively explored mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, in addition to partnerships and ecosystems, to provide an in-depth of the market as a whole. […]
The Growing Case For Human-Centric Workplace Lighting
The results from more and more experiments are building an undeniable case for the productivity boosting abilities of human-centric office lighting. A number of studies in recent months have backed up scientific theories with real productivity data to show the significant role lighting can play in the functioning of an organization. A seven month study […]
Partnerships & Investments in Startups Gain Momentum as Smart Building Players Boost Innovation
Smart building players are strengthening their open innovation capabilities through investments and partnerships with startups and the incubators and accelerators that support their development. Corporates are recognizing the need to increase their agility and speed in developing smart connected products and services by leveraging software, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to […]
Enabling Productivity and Collaboration in Commercial Smart Buildings
“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, […]
Commercial Real Estate Firms Strengthen Their Smart Building Capabilities
The two leading service providers in the global Commercial Real Estate (CRE) market have been augmenting their capabilities in smart building technologies, facility management software and services. Major real estate clients are demanding a “one-stop shop” with more integrated services and global multi-site capability. Strategic acquisitions have been the main route to acquire this capability. […]
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