HqO, the end-to-end tenant experience platform for commercial real estate properties, today announces that it has acquired Office App, a leading European tenant and employee engagement platform. The new combined entity is valued at over half a billion dollars, making it one of the most signi...
Better sensors, more intelligent AI, and the coming wave of 5G wireless could finally fulfill the promise of the smart city.
Why it matters: How we organize, run and power our cities will be increasingly important in the years ahead, as urbanization expands and the damaging effects of climate change compound.
- A smarter city can be a more sustainable and livable on...
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?