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The Wall Street Journal
Spain’s Iberdrola SA said it would spend €75 billion, equivalent to $88 billion, over the next five years to double its renewable power capacity and capitalize on the shift to green energy, highlighting how some of Europe’s lesser-known utility companies have become major players in the global energy industry.
ScienceDaily
Buildings around us create a whopping one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – about ten times more than air traffic worldwide. In Europe alone about 190 million square metres of housing space are built each year, mainly in the cities, and the amount is growing quickly at the rate of nearly one percent a year.
CREtech
Duncan Owen of Schroder Real Estate Investment Management spoke to us about the ways in which real estate can drive inclusive growth to the benefit of communities, business and the planet. Catch up on the full interview on-demand.
GlobeSt
Don’t ask Marty Burger, CEO of Silverstein Properties, when he started reopening his New York area buildings after the COVID-19 shutdowns.Burger will tell you that Silverstein, which develops, owns and operates office and residential projects in New York, never fully closed down.
GeekWire
Will that bathroom remodel increase your home’s value by more than $20,000? What about replacing the floors or adding a garage? How about the bad traffic that’s getting worse around your neighborhood? A stealthy Seattle-area startup wants to help answer these questions and more.
Bisnow
Ford Autonomous Vehicles, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Cos., announced last week that it will be opening a command center west of Miami International Airport, a key step in the company’s goal to offer ride-hailing and commercial delivery services by 2022.
Bloomberg
Real-estate companies are seeing clear evidence of New Yorkers and Londoners ditching city centers for suburbs as the pandemic changes the way people live and work.
City Monitor
The challenges around voting in the US in 2020 have shown that at least in part, what cities are sorely missing are things like easy-to-use websites and reliable databases. As a civic technologist, my job is to help governments use modern technology to better serve their constituents.
Property Week
Having a better grasp of data in residential offers a multitude of benefits to customers, operators and investors. Moda Living and Utopi sat down to discuss the benefits they have already reaped from their own partnership.
PlaceTech
The international real estate firm has appointed WeWork executive Ronen Journo as European head of operations and senior managing director. An expert on global workplace trends, technology and corporate real estate operations, Journo will work closely with Hines’ teams and tenants across Europe to meet the evolving real estate needs of global occupiers.
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