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Today, Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry, announced that real estate industry veteran Mary Hogan Preusse has joined the firm as its first Senior Advisor focused on strengthening Fifth Wall's relationships with its 70+ corporate real estate investors and with the broader real estate industry.
For 10 years beginning in 1945, the architect George Nelson served as the design director at Herman Miller, the iconic furniture producer, where he came to believe that the modern office should resemble “a daytim...
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland plans to reach net zero carbon by 2025 – five years ahead of its original target – though it will rely on immediate offsetting to do so, the company has announced.
The developer said it is taking a “why wait” stance on offsets instead of waiting until 2030 to mitigate its emissions. GBI argued that doing so would have a positive long-term effect as long a...
Westwood-based startup CarbonBuilt Inc. announced Oct. 6 that it has raised $10 million in Series A financing to further develop and begin to market its technology that reduces carbon dioxide emissions by injecting the gas into concrete.
The Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Greenprint Center for Building Performance revealed today that eight new real estate leaders, representing over 2,400 buildings, have announced plans to reduce the operational carbon emissions of their collective portfolio under operational control to net zero by the year 2050. This is on top of the seventeen ULI Greenprint members that already publicly aligned w...
Eric Flohr of Berkadia takes us through the benefits he has seen and experienced by leaning heavily into technology to solve for internal and external communications.
One of the gating factors for getting more homeowners to make the switch to solar energy has been that solar, as a business, is a hard one to get right, with many a company failing when they’ve been unable to strike the right balance between the technology working as it should, provisi...
Every quarter, Blackstone gathers heads across its portfolio companies and asks them something simple: Where are all the challenges in the business?
Arden Group ("Arden"), a fully integrated real estate company, today announced the appointment of Poonam Sharma Mathis as Board Member and Venture Partner. She will lead Arden's venture capital initiative and investment efforts, which will focus on opportunities to invest in startups enhancing efficiency in the operations of real estate.
Global energy giant BP has acquired Manhattan-based Blueprint Power, a proptech startup that has built proprietary software enabling real estate portfolios to become sources of cleaner flexible power, BP announced Thursday.