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#Podcast 32: The Simple Business Case for Indoor Air Quality!
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“Open Sesame” Exploring Alibaba’s Smart Building Approach
Initially launched in 1999 as an online marketplace for Chinese-made products, The Alibaba Group has gone on to become one of the biggest companies in the world with a market cap of over $210 billion. While online retail remains Alibaba’s core service offering, the firm has expanded into a huge range of activities, including comprehensive […]
Net Zero Buildings Explored: The Forge, Bankside
Completed in January 2023, The Forge, Bankside, comprises two new-build net-zero commercial office buildings of nine storeys each and almost 140,000 square feet of internal space. It is the first commercial office development constructed and operated in line with the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) net zero carbon buildings framework. Property developer, Landsec, has constructed […]
The Long-Term Demand for Healthy Buildings
“General hygiene expectations of employees have risen significantly, and facilities services providers are under pressure to maintain rigorous sanitation regimes, especially in common areas. Adopting rigorous cleaning routines remains paramount to maintaining building occupant confidence,” reads our recent study on the IoT in smart commercial buildings. “The COVID-19 pandemic has elicited significant changes to working practices […]
The Rise of Health Certification in Commercial Real Estate
We have long recognized the importance of our buildings on human health. Studies dating back decades have highlighted huge amounts of time we spend in buildings and how the indoor environment can impact our physical, and mental health. Performance metrics and certification programs around indoor health began to emerge in the 2010s but were still […]
Recording: What is SmartScore? Identifying Best in Class Smart Buildings
Here is the Video Recording from our 4th Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. What is SmartScore? Identifying Best in Class Smart Buildings. Memoori was joined by Jules Barker from WiredScore and Joe Brown from Kingsett to discuss their new certification initiative, SmartScore; which has recently launched with 70 buildings and 44 landlords across 7 countries. […]
Health is Just a Factor of Wellbeing, & Wellbeing is Key to Workplace Productivity
In the buildings industry, we talk a lot about the health and wellbeing of occupants, but what do these terms really mean and what’s the difference between them? Can you be healthy and lack wellbeing, or achieve wellbeing in poor health? These terms have become central to the generation of value in modern real estate, […]
The Smart Building Industry Begins to See Cleaning in a New Light
Few in-building technologies have experienced a more significant boost from the COVID-19 pandemic than UV-C light disinfection. The sanitation solution has been used for more than 40 years in disinfecting drinking water, wastewater, ventilated air, and pharmaceutical products, against a range of human pathogens. This year’s on-going global health crisis, however, has focused extra hype […]
On the Verge of a New Generation of Buildings that Harness the Potential of their Occupants
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 […]
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