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Industrialized or manufactured construction is a familiar concept. We have been building with components and even whole wall panels for years. However, with a heightened focus on efficiency due to skilled labor shortages and tighter margins, industrialized construction is accelerating across the globe. As we noted in our first paper, “Technological advancements disrupting the global construction...

As colleges around the country map out plans to reopen their campuses in the fall, they have embarked on some unique and pricey shopping expeditions: sourcing miles of plexiglass, hundreds of thousands of face masks and, in the case of the University of Central Florida, trying to get in an order for 1,200 hand-sanitizer stations before neighboring theme parks could buy them all up.

Before the coronavirus crisis, Hudson Pacific Properties was preparing to roll out a new mobile app for its office tenants within the next year and a half. Hudson Pacific had been piloting the digital community bulletin board, which would allow tenants to communicate with property managers in real time, and wanted to make sure it worked properly in a few buildings before introducing it across the ...

Now that lockdown measures are beginning to ease and the prospect of meeting up with friends and family in a restaurant or having a drink in a pub is closer, businesses are planning for what a return to the workplace will look like. But as lockdown measures gradually begin to ease and we all start to look towards the future, businesses are and have been continually pondering and planning for what ...

PORTLAND, OR—As commercial real estate companies pivot to a new normal with the slow phased re-entry to the workplace, Unico Properties has a strategy to deliver a safe and sanitized office environment across its portfolio. This includes plans for US Bancorp Tower located at 111 SW 5th Ave.

Big U.S. companies such as Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. say they are embracing working fro...

Hoteling -- the idea of providing pre-booked short-term space to office workers -- has been around for a while, but it has taken on new importance in the wake of COVID-19. Property managers and investors who want to