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Market Fragmentation & the “Uber-ization” of Facilities Management – Charles Reed Anderson
November 29th, 2019Predictive Maintenance for Facility Management is Now at a Disruptive Price Point
May 7th, 2018
Many Businesses are Rethinking the Way They Harness their Talent & Real Estate
With technology permeating everything that we do, it’s led to significant transformation in the workplace specifically, how, where (and who) is working and what work employees do. The speed of change and disruption across industries has also caused greater uncertainty as many businesses rethink the way they harness their talent and real estate,” suggests Susan […]
“If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”: The Path to Better Buildings
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it,” said American businessman, author, and improvement guru, Dr. H. James Harrington. Harrington has more than […]
Workplace Optimization Solutions Proliferate as the Commercial Real Estate Sector Undergoes a Seismic Shift
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research. The Commercial Real Estate industry is undergoing a major shift as new business models and changes in the nature of the workforce disrupt the sector. Changes in the way we work are forecast to transform not only the workplaces of startup companies but also […]
Some Building Systems Are Born Smart, Others Have Smartness Thrust Upon Them
“Some building systems are born smart, some achieve smartness and some have smartness thrust upon them,” Shakespeare might have said if he were a 21st century mechanical engineer or facility manager working in Chicago. Taking center-stage in the ambitious Midwest city is a smart building retrofit worthy of applause. Completed in 1990, 311 South Wacker […]
Real Estate Service Firms Seek to Differentiate through PropTech and Early Stage Ventures
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson of Tomlinson Business Research Real estate firms are joining the race to own the intelligent buildings sector as they seek to differentiate their third party services to building owners and operators worldwide. CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm with 2016 […]
What Would Our Cities Look Like If We Started From Scratch?
What would our cities look like if we started again, from scratch, with everything we know now? Would we create central business districts (CBDs) if we had the chance to redesign our cities? How different would our buildings be from the environments we have created now? These questions about workplaces, the built environment and city […]
Sensors Produce Data, People with Data Produce Solutions
Carpet manufacturers are embedding sensors to track footsteps, the lighting sector is embedding sensors, furniture manufacturers are doing the same. The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon no longer be about adding sensors and connecting “things”, it will be about how we analyse data to create new workplace strategies. That is the view of Srihar […]