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The Real Deal
Industrious has a new chief operating officer. The flex-office provider has tapped Liz Simon, chief operating officer at tech-focused continuing education school General Assembly, as its new COO, The Real Deal has learned.
essensys
NEW YORK – August 11, 2021 – essensys, the leading global provider of software and technology to the flexible workspace industry, has appointed Arthur Mirante III as Head of Strategic Partnerships. Arthur brings with him 25 years of diversified experience in the investment banking industry, with a focus on real estate securities. Most recently, Mirante served in real estate and project development for Lightower Capital. Prior to Lightower, he worked in the REIT sector as an analyst …
HqO
BOSTON – August 24, 2021 – Rubenstein Partners today announces the roll-out of HqO, the end-to-end tenant experience operating system for office buildings, and the platform’s full suite of services at 25 Kent, a 500,000-square-foot office and manufacturing building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Through HqO, 25 Kent will give tenants access to building programming, amenities, and special retail and food offerings from the surrounding neighborhood. “Having a tenant experience platform is a must-ha…
CREtech
Marta Schantz, Senior Vice President of the Greenprint Center for Building Performance at the Urban Land Institute chats with CREtech’s CEO Michael Beckerman about the industry’s recent appetite for sustainable investments and decarbonizing the built environment. Schantz also unpacks the work of ULI’s Greenprint Center and addresses what companies can do to advance their role in the ESG movement.
Smart Cities World
Semtech and IQnexus have joined forces to provide an on-premise solution based on LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN standard to monitor a building’s indoor air quality in real-time.
Geektime
The Israeli PropTech startup’s ML models aim to help commercial real-estate investors maximize their assets. JLL turns from investor to owner within 3 years.
CREtech
Crystal Fisher, Managing Director of the Commercial Portfolio at Fisher Brothers, opens up about how the company defines and prioritizes innovation, and how they’ve shifted their technology focus to health, safety, and communication solutions.
Bisnow
The shift to hybrid work has the potential to have a huge impact on the battle against climate change — if the real estate industry can change its idea about the best way to make a profit, and corporate occupiers change their view on what constitutes an environmentally friendly building.
GlobeSt
Average office occupancy will likely “never” return to pre-pandemic levels, according to one US-based analyst surveying the sector. In a recent webinar on the state of the global office market, Green Street’s Daniel Ismail said that while his assessment may be a “bit tongue-in-cheek…structural vacancy in the US has risen several hundred basis points.”
TechCrunch
Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. Delivering what is believed to be the largest 3D-printed structure in North America — a barracks for Texas Military Department.
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