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Space utilization – Market trends and transformation

Everyone agrees that an image is worth 1,000 words. In his book ‘Information Visualization’, Colin Ware states: “The eye and the visual cortex of the brain form a massive parallel processor that provides the highest-bandwidth channel into human cognitive centers.” With the human visual system processing more information than all other senses combined, visuals can be deciphered by the brain much quicker than written information.

Reporting tips and guidance

Reporting of sustainability and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) has evolved significantly over the years. Several organisations have matured and become leading examples; illustrating how reporting has been a way for them to better inform stakeholders, and as a tool for them to reflect on their journey and upgrade their approach to sustainability or ESG.

Tips for stress free reporting

Managing the reporting and assurance process for your company’s ESG outcomes is difficult at the best of times, 2020 is set to become even more challenging.2019 will go down as the year the world announced a clear intent to move to a low-carbon economy. In 2020 governments, institutions and businesses will have to address how they manage this transition in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of their businesses.

6 Ways business can align with SDGs and make an impact

For many companies, aligning with SDGs is the next big way to make a positive impact as an organization and attract investment dollars from increasingly climate-active investors.

Performance-Based Occupant Engagement: New Technology Tackles Long-Standing Challenges

New tools and technology are making it easier to understand and manage real world occupant experience. Four specific strategies can turn technology into effective management.

Remember to keep your ‘Proof of Purpose’

As we enter the festive period, we will all be reminded to “keep our proof of purchase” should any of our gifts need to be returned, it is the evidence that we need to show ownership. This concept made me think. As a Sustainability professional, how do I demonstrate Proof of Purpose? How do I […]

Stay focused: the strategic value of stakeholder engagement

Making cities sustainable remains high up on the international agenda as the planet faces a climate emergency.

Tenant Engagement–The road to corporate sustainability

In recent years, the interests of tenants in green or sustainable occupancy have gradually grown in prominence, ranging from green and/or healthy building accreditations to optimization of resource management and mitigation of environmental footprints.

4 Steps to Include Stakeholders on Your Sustainability Journey

Let’s explore four key milestones of an organization’s sustainability journey to see how stakeholder engagement can help:

Stakeholder Engagement: A bright new future for Corporate Governance

You can have the best product, the most polished program, the most innovative project, if you have not taken the time to ensure the people impacted by your initiative are fully on board, you will fail. It’s about as certain as death and taxes!

The Sustainable Business Revolution – a unique challenge and opportunity

Sustainability isn’t a threat to future business – it is the future of business, of a thriving economy and long-term prosperity.

The Mind Really Matters

The John O’Halloran Initiative, through the charity LionHeart, is bringing health and wellbeing to the attention of the property industry, writes RealService consultant Claire Middleton Mental health is finally on the agenda in the boardroom. Phrases like “work-life balance”, “mindfulness” and “wellness” have been trending on social media, and high-profile advocates like the Dukes of […]

GSA’s High-Performance Buildings Reduce Costs, Increase Tenant Satisfaction

A recently released 2018 study by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) finds that high-performance buildings save energy, save water, cost less to operate, produce less waste, and have more satisfied occupants compared with typical buildings. In short, they reduce operating costs and increase tenant satisfaction.

Can the ‘Net Zero’ Concept Be Applied to Health and Wellbeing?

‘Net zero’ buildings are highly energy-efficient buildings that use on or off-site renewable energy to achieve net zero carbon emissions. Can the concept of ‘net zero’ by adapted for the health and wellbeing agenda? Well, I think so and here’s why…

TRIANGO

With this Triango project, Bopro Sustainable Investments (BSI) has obtained the right to develop 15 ha of the Triangle de Gonesse. From now on we belong – as a Belgian company – to the development team of the ‘Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris’ project. ‘Inventons la Métropole du Grand Paris’, the biggest European contest […]

Full steam ahead to a Smart and Sustainable City

What makes a city smart and sustainable? Denkstatt recently tried to answer this question – both in theory by developing a new position paper on smart cities together with stakeholders from the real estate and urban development sectors and in practice by integrating sustainability in a district development project in the Austrian city Amstetten. A […]

Case Study: Sello – a perfect place to come together

This building – it’s a place to learn. It’s a place to compete. A place to practise, to improve. To invent. But above all, this building is a community. -Marianne Harjula, Sello Event Manager

The new resilience: How the customer is king

The 2018 RealService Customer Experience Index suggests property companies need to do more to adapt to a new landscape

Proptech: Robots and the customer experience

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. (Bill Gates) Claire Middleton argues that despite the technological takeover, humans are still key

Innovation to drive down risk

Technological advances have been gathering pace at an astonishing rate, forcing industries worldwide to adapt – the real estate sector is no different. PropTech has one common goal: to innovate, using technology to simplify the real estate market.

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