Once upon a time, the idea of 3D-printed homes felt like a thing of the future. But as housing gets less and less affordable — especially in ultra-expensive markets such as the Bay Area — companies are getting creative in their quest to build more affordable homes using technology.
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The pandemic is compelling a number of co-working firms to discard original business models, or accelerate the adoption of a new one, with the broader office market under threat.
For a succinct indication of the direction financial markets are headed in the 2020s and beyond, look no further than the above sentence. Not so much for the words themselves, which few would argue offer a breathtakingly original insight in 2021, but because of the person who wrote them: Larry Fink.
Within eyesight of drivers on I-5 in Federal Way, Washington, a celebrated exemplar of modernist landscape architecture and building design peeks out from a forest of evergreens. Like a skyscraper turned on its side, the building appears to be a low concrete bridge stretching across the landscape. The long horizontal tiers of its five floors are draped in ivy and overlook...
Leading building materials company LafargeHolcim and energy services company Schlumberger’s low-carbon technologies business Schlumberger New Energy announced today a new partnership aimed at exploring the development of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) solutions.
As urban populations grow, smart cities are leveraging new digital technologies to monitor and optimise water and energy consumption, enhance citizen access to services, create effective transportation infrastructures and deliver the city-wide connectivity that citizens and businesses need.
Investors and CRE professionals have begun understanding the near- and long-term implications of the global pandemic on real estate assets and on their portfolios. As leading investors begin to reactivate their investment strategies, many are instituting new standards to invest smarter, increase productivity, and grow their business — resulting in better financials, communication, and management...
Nearly a year after the spread of the coronavirus was declared a pandemic and office workers turned their homes into their workplaces to curb the spread of the virus, the great work-from-home experiment has proved that the trend will at least in part become a fixture of our society.
Coming from startups, large enterprises and everything in between, we know how hard it can be to create meaningful change. We also recognize silos exist across the real estate, technology, and public sectors, and important voices are being left out of the conversations. That’s why we founded Proptech Collective. We see these challenges as an opportunity to come together to find better solutions ...
The proposals contain key changes to current practices. They include: the ability to boost fresh air rates by 50%; additional ventilation requirements for spaces such as corridors and lift lobbies; a purge ventilation requirement of four air changes per hour for all spaces; and a means of in-use air quality. Along with protecting against the current and future pandemics, there’s potential for th...