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White Paper: Community Spirited Infrastructure (Workplace Knowledge Community)
Dr. Peggie Rothe, Development Director of Leesman, on how the workplace can be both an enabler and an obstacle when it comes to fostering social cohesion and improving productivity.
Article: A look at data centers and the corporate real estate portfolio
Although rarely seen or even acknowledged, during the last 10 years, data centers have become a prevalent part of today’s society and a critical component to most companies’ business and real estate portfolios. Data centers are the linchpin to powering modern business and the disruptive models that provide immediate access to almost anything, including sharing and viewing photos of family and friends, ordering on-demand automobile transportation or streaming entertainment content, and, best of all, connecting to people all over the world. The evolution in technology has allowed corporations to rethink how they work and undertake extensive innovation projects that will allow people to experience goods and services that just simply were not available a few years ago. These amazing features and benefits we experience daily need to be processed, stored and managed somewhere, somehow. That’s where data center real estate comes into play.
Report: Technology and the Internet of Things
Technology has its digital fingerprints on just about every aspect of business, government, culture and personal life these days. It is changing everything from how people shop and what they buy to how and where they live, work and interact with others. And that pace of change in this new digital era is only gaining momentum with major innovations on the doorstep and even more on the horizon.
White Paper: Green Buildings in EMEA: A Unilever Sustainability Initiative (Sustainability Knowledge Community)
Buildings form a large part of a company’s carbon footprint and therefore making the workplace more sustainable will reduce this footprint significantly and permanently. Office Buildings that generate more energy than they consume have been built in Europe. A case-study of Unilever Paris already demonstrated the commitment of the company towards goals of becoming carbon neutral in their operations by 2030. Following on this success in Europe and a big drive in the industrial space, Unilever also undertook a similar exercise for two projects in office and warehouse space in South Africa.
Presentation: CoreNet Global and Cushman & Wakefield Coworking: Understanding the Ongoing Evolution Survey (presentation slides)
In recent years, co-working spaces have become increasingly prevalent across the globe. Through this webinar you will to get a better understanding of what the impetus behind adaptation of co-working is. Furthermore, how does an organization’s portfolio strategy influence the decision to include co-working as part of their workplace scheme, and how does location factor into this equation. Additionally, we will highlight what other factors influence this decision.
Report: Global Office Index Q4 2016
Annual rental growth on prime office assets decelerated to 2.3% in Q4 2016, down from 3.0% in Q3 and the slowest rate of full-year growth in three years.
Report: Europe Real Estate Outlook 2017
Expect a year of political uncertainty and the challenge of rising interest rates in Europe in 2017.
Report: Q4 2016 U.S. Industrial Market Outlook Report
2016 industrial momentum lays the groundwork for 2017.
Report: Asia Pacific Economic Outlook - Q1 2017
Deloitte's Asia Pacific Economic Outlook offers a quarterly analysis of economic trends affecting countries in the Asia-Pacific region.