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In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Debates ensued over whether the construction industry’s seven million employees should be considered “essential,” while regulations continued to shift on the operation of job sites. Meanwhile, project demand stead...
In a parking lot next to a hospital in an Atlanta suburb, dozens of modular critical care units—made in a factory and delivered by truck—are being installed to help add space as COVID-19 cases continue to grow.
In 2018, Maria Rioumine and Ryan Gibson worked at venture capital firm 8VC and lived on the same street in San Francisco. Often when they walked around the city they would ask themselves how was it possible that in a place that had so much innovation and where there was a chronic dearth of affordable housing, building anything took so long and was so slow.
Buildings around us create a whopping one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions - about ten times more than air traffic worldwide. In Europe alone about 190 million square metres of housing space are built each year, mainly in the cities, and the amount is growing quickly at the rate of nearly one percent a year.
In 1989 Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist, and now Co-founder of 350.org, wrote the first book about climate change. Now he sits down with Fifth Wall Co-Founder Brendan Wallace to share how the climate change conversation has changed with corporations over the last 30 years.
In October, the World Meteorological Organization and its partners released the 2020 State of Climate Services, a report showing that not only are the number of extreme weather and climate events increasing, but they are increasing in intensity and severity.
The building automation system (BAS) market is one of the fastest growing product types in the commercial real estate industry. The industry is expected to grow from $75B in 2019 to $121.5B by 2024 at a 10.1% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR).
Real estate investors and developers are increasingly considering climate risk factors when deciding where to buy or build, according to a report this month from the Urban Land Institute, an organization that promotes the responsible use of land.
CREtech is proud to introduce our new monthly content series focused on our Global Innovation Consulting Practice. Each month we will take a deep dive on an important trend in the world of real estate technology and innovation. These themes, which are carefully selected by our wor...
A technology company that produces environmentally friendly, cost-effective building components has raised $4.5M in seed funding from a venture firm launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.