Step Up to Digital Transformation to Construct a Sustainable and Smart City
Digitalization is undoubtedly becoming a trending topic in companies’ business across the globe. In this case, how companies use data to seek value and opportunities becomes the key to success in the digital age.
How the Digital Transformation Enhances Real Estate Resilience in an Ever-Changing World
Recent years have seen the development of a wide range of technological solutions enabling companies to enhance resilience, ensuring business and real estate continuity. But, the outbreak of COVID-19 has brought to light the importance of companies to adopt digital solutions. Both landlords and investors alike have bene looking to add digital solutions to their portfolios to enhance efficiency and remain future proof.
Moving the Goalposts: The History of Green Building and Performance
The contemporary concept of green building dates to the development of the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) in the late 1980s and the release of the first version of BREEAM for Offices in 1990. This pioneering tool was followed by the launch of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system in 1998. They have since been joined by many tools to define, evaluate, and recognize superior buildings.
Sustainable buildings: A pragmatic approach to joining the digital transformation
39% – this is a figure the real estate sector knows well too well. And this must change. According to the UN’s Global Status Report, the built environment makes up approximately 39% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. In order to be on track to meet global climate ambitions set forth in the Paris agreement, we need to see a 30% reduction by 2030. Global buildings sector energy demand rose 7% from 2010 to 2019, so drastic action is needed.
Smart Cities and the Global Digital Infrastructure Revolution
As the world begins to emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures are eased in the months ahead, the attention of decision makers will begin to shift towards the need to stimulate the recovery and to get economies up and running again. The crisis has already taught us many things, but perhaps one of the most poignant lessons is on the importance of digital infrastructure in sustaining economic activity.
You’ve probably already heard of “digitalization of real estate”. But what is it all about? What is your current state of play? And what are the steps to be taken to achieve it? This article offers you a concrete 4-steps methodology to successfully digitize your real estate portfolio.
Investing for Health: Catalyzing investment in human and social capital
These are certainly challenging times for both the public’s health and for the global economy. We are currently facing an unprecedented pandemic that has upended not only the financial markets, but business as usual.
What Carbon Neutrality Means for the Real Estate Sector
As the global community continues to experience extreme and immediate climate effects, the need for climate action will persist. Since building and construction activities are responsible for 39% of all energy and process-related carbon emissions, real estate corporates have a distinct responsibility to develop ambitious, measurable climate strategies.
Taking a Proactive Approach to Managing Climate Crisis
A blow from increased novel coronavirus fears sent both financial market and stability into freefall. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, daily necessities are becoming scarce because of the fear of supply chain disruptions. We now confront a key question: Is this the new market trend?
