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marianne3 December 18, 2020
There’s a climate culprit hiding inside the bowels of nearly every building in the country. Almost 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions comes from the construction and operation of buildings, and those operations are surprisingly inefficient...
marianne3 December 18, 2020
Industrious, an office space provider that counts WeWork among its rivals, named a new head of legal as it bolsters its management team ahead of a potential public listing in 2021. The New York-based company hired Clem Turner, head of the alternative capital practice at law firm Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, in a newly created role as its top lawyer.
marianne3 December 18, 2020
Breather, a startup that rents office space by the day, has run out of air. The Montreal-based company plans to shutter more than 400 locations in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. In some cases, it will assign outposts to third parties, who will close them to repay the company’s creditors, the Globe and Mail reported.
marianne3 December 18, 2020
While offices remain closed and travel isn't an option, some companies are turning to virtual reality to bring employees together. Let's face it: Slack sessions and Zoom happy hours can only go so far to promote company cohesion. VR can provide another outlet, even if the technology is still in its infancy.
marianne3 December 18, 2020

The campus infrastructure team at the National University of Singapore was getting frustrated. The team wanted to refresh the university’s aging buildings and create a smart campus with connected, automated systems and a cooler, more comfortable outdoor environment. But they couldn’t find a way to make the dozens of standalone systems in the university’s 260 buildings — from ai...

marianne3 December 18, 2020
Eindhoven, Manchester, Tallinn and Vilnius have been named Europe’s rising stars in the global tech city big league, according to research by Savills.
marianne3 December 18, 2020
Money is pouring into exchange-traded funds that bill themselves as socially conscious. This year investors have put a record $27.4 billion into ETFs traded in U.S. markets that say they focus on environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, practices, according to data from FactSet, doubling the size of the sector.
marianne3 December 18, 2020
More than $1 billion in buying power has left #Tribeca #NYC since the pandemic began; half of that was in the first 60 days. #COVID19 's $34 billion dollar bite out of the Big Apple -- #locationdata #humanmobility #CRE
marianne3 December 16, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden will name Gina McCarthy as his White House climate czar, a source familiar with the decision tells CNN, making the former head of the Env...

marianne3 December 16, 2020

If the United States wants to get serious about tackling climate change, the country will need to build a staggering amount of new energy infrastructure in just the next 10 years, laying down steel and concrete at a pace barely being contemplated today. That’s one conclusion from a major