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Mass urbanization and commercial real estate’s climate impact demand strong action by designers, urban planners and architects, developers and legislators around the world. It’s also a subject that Gensler has taken very seriously: the Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3) outlines the firm’s commitment to design all their projects to net-zero standards by 2030; and addressed it in their re...

A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Smart Cities Spending Guideshows global spending on smart cities initiatives will total nearly $124 billion this year, an increase of 18.9% over 2019. The top 100 cities investing in smart initiatives in 2019 represented around 29% of global spending, and while growth will be sustained among the top spenders in the short term, ...

Real estate companies are focusing on how digital transformation can boost their business. A KPMG survey of real estate and property technology (PropTech) firms globally shows that 58% say they have a digital strategy in place, up from 52% in 2018.

Bond, a property technology firm that focuses on last-mile delivery, is taking a page out of the book of co-working firm WeWork. The New York City-based start-up scouts out underutilized commercial space in dense city areas to establish “tiny warehouses” for last-mile delivery and is plotting an expansion in New York and two Northeast cities.

In line with their recent launch of the new service, InventoryBase Workstreams, the industry-leading proptech specialists have now appointed a new commercial manager as the business continues to grow. Warrick Swift will be responsible for the commercial development and marketing of all Radweb products, operations and business development.

New York, NY (February 21, 2020) —CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the built world, will feature a Smart City panel at its first event of 2020 to be held in Austin, Texas on April 22 and 23rd. . This ground-breaking panel will discuss how technology will play a key role in the future of cities and highlight the innovation taking p...

Urbantech Managing Director Andrew Ackerman (@andrewackerman) will be speaking with Camber Creek General Partner Jeffrey Berman (@Camber_Creek) about all things real estate tech. Berman is a bona fide member of the proptech old guard, investing actively in real estate startups well before it became (even remotely) hot with some of the most well-known startups that are reshaping the real estate ind...

CREtech (cretech.com), the leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, will showcase a panel of startup founders who have successfully scaled and sold their businesses at their first event in 2020. To be held in Austin, Texas on April 22nd and 23rd, the event will feature Dave Eisenberg, Founding Partner at Zigg Capital and former Founder/CEO of Floored...

Ackman-Ziff has a new chief operating officer, and she means business. Andrea Jang was previously Americas Head of Growth at JLL Spark, where she focused on real estate venture investments. Prior to that, she was a senior vice president on JLL’s corporate development team. Now, she’s tasked with driving operational effectiveness and efficiencies ...

Real estate firm Colliers and Techstars have opened applications for the third year of their jointly-run proptech accelerator, which is intended to help Colliers source and invest in new solutions across the real estate value chain Since the program’s launch, Colliers has launched 19 pilots and partnerships with its program alumni. Hosted in Toronto, the program is aimed to help startups fine-t...