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Smart building tech provides a path to energy savings, sustainability

Lauren February 15, 2021
Look no further than a server that “allows us to manage hundreds if not thousands of devices within our building in real time at all times,” said Joel Shandelman, the property’s chief technology officer, providing data from across the 2 million-square-foot campus. He notes that artificial intelligence software from BuildingIQ, a cloud-based platform, then uses that data to help the HVAC syst...
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Shots Aren’t Luring Workers Back to Offices

Lauren February 15, 2021
U.S. workers have failed to return to the office in greater numbers this month, frustrating hopes that the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines and falling infection rates would start to lure employ...
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Sobering Report For Landlords: 59% Of Businesses Expect Office Square Footage To Shrink

Lauren February 15, 2021
Nearly 60% of real estate professionals embedded in corporations surveyed by CoreNet Global say their businesses will shrink their office square footage in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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How One Dallas Landlord Helped Lure Employees Back to the Office

Lauren February 15, 2021
Office is the biggest question mark in commercial real estate. Most office-using companies are still operating remotely through the pandemic, and many are considering long-term or permanent remote work policies. This has some landlords concerned that office demand could diminish
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Kargo raises $6M to smarten up loading docks for the coming wave of autonomy

Lauren February 12, 2021

When Sam Lurye looks at a loading dock he sees both a bottleneck in the world’s supply chain and an opportunity. The opportunity — driven by a tension between the digital and physical infrastructure at warehouse distribution centers and factories today and the push toward autonomy — prompted Lurye to found Kargo, a smart loading dock platform startup that recently ...

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NAVEX Survey Finds Companies Adopting ESG Practices, But Lack Confidence in Sustainability Performance

Lauren February 12, 2021
A survey of managers and senior executives at companies with 500 employees or more, released by risk and compliance management software company NAVEX Global, found the vast majority of companies have put ESG initiatives in place, but many lack confidence in their sustainability performance.
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Regus Owner IWG Buys Majority Stake in Office Startup The Wing

Lauren February 12, 2021
Switzerland-based IWG, which pioneered flexible offices more than 30-years ago under the Regus brand, has injected an undisclosed sum into the company to facilitate its growth, according to an emailed statement Thursday. The deal gives IWG a majority stake in the New York based startup, people familiar with the terms said, asking not to be identified as the details aren’t public.
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Israeli Investor Looks To Supercharge Last-Mile Logistics Portfolio Aggregation

Lauren February 12, 2021

Faropoint CEO Adir Levitas claims his company can leverage a combination of its own data and under-development software tools to rapidly aggregate portfolios of warehouses too small for large investors to buy individually.

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Green Genius To Invest Over €100 Million To Create Solar Parks In Poland

Lauren February 12, 2021
Green Genius, a renewable energy company that is a part of an international group of companies known as the Modus Group, has sunny ambitions for Poland. At the end of last year, it won two auctions for solar power plant projects with a total capacity of 79 megawatts. Along with t...
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Short-Term Rental Startups Pick Up Units of Failed Rivals

Lauren February 12, 2021

After six years in business, Lyric succumbed to shaky finances and a travel shutdown in July 2020. Now, the 66-story Lower Manhattan building is the New York City flagship for Mint House, a three-year-old startup that caters to business travelers. 

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