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New York's most famous skyscraper shrank its planet-warming emissions ... emissions from operations at the Empire State Building about 40 ... But if buildings are among the biggest contributors to the climate crisis, they can also be ... And the whole process must be made into a publicly available blueprint.

Demand for office space is intrinsically linked to the economy; generally in a downturn, office demand drops off as employment levels fall and corporates move into cash preservation mode. The global pandemic has undoubtedly pushed us into a global recession and in the short term this will have a direct impact on office demand. However, in light of the success of wholescale working from home, the q...

Skyline Tower, the 778-foot luxury condo building in Long Island City that looms over western Queens, was built to break records. It is the tallest building in the borough; the most ambitious, with sales projected to exceed $1 billion; and in February the developers claimed that it was the fastest selling, with contracts signed on a quarter of its 802 units...

In case you missed it, watch the FULL video of The Institutional Investors Perspective: The Reactivation of CRE Investment Management presented by Appfolio. Investors 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 standa...

To many of its employees, WeWork was much more than a job. Adam Neumann, the co-founder and former chief executive officer, kept workers motivated by invoking a higher calling to community-building and promising a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Kiss the elevator pitch goodbye — at least if it takes place in an elevator. Change is coming to the daily vertical commute, as workers begin to return to tall office buildings in New York and other cities. The elevator ride, a previously unremarkable 90 or so seconds, has become a daunting puzzler in the calculus of how to bring people back to work safely after t...

The Global Financial Crisis has been credited with accelerating FinTech and transforming the previously stagnant financial sector. Now COVID-19 is set to do the same with PropTech in commercial real estate, and the effects will be even more far reaching. One of the advantages of coming after FinTech is that lessons have been learnt about not being seduced by buzzwords and superfluous solutions. Be...

Joining Paul Unger, editor of PlaceTech, is Mark Furness, founder and CEO of essensys, which supplies mission-critical software to some of the biggest operators and space providers in the flexible office market.

Google is pushing back a plan to reopen its U.S. offices after coronavirus cases surged in several western and southern states. All U.S. offices will remain closed until Sept. 7 at the earliest, according to a memo Google sent to employees. In May, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said the company would cautiously move some workers back in