Contradictory or conflicting lease language appears far more often than many tenants realize.

Despite decades of advocacy and investment, women remain drastically underrepresented across the construction sector.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Cushman & Wakefield. Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 Office Fit Out Cost Guides provide construction cost benchmarks for occupiers across 144 cities worldwide, spanning the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Whether planning a basic, collaborative or advanced hybrid workplace, the guides offer detailed cost breakdowns to support capital planning, workplace transformation and relocation decisions.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Gensler. The workplace creates the conditions for people to learn, exchange ideas, build skills, and experiment together in ways no digital tool can replicate. As AI becomes more embedded in daily work, the office becomes even more valuable as a place where knowledge, experimentation, and human insight come together.

The office is increasingly being redefined as a tool to support organizational performance, learning, innovation, and connection.

For much of the past decade, sustainability in corporate real estate was defined by commitments. Organizations announced net-zero targets, published ESG reports, and outlined ambitious carbon reduction goals. Those pledges helped elevate the role of the built environment in global climate conversations and signaled growing expectations for companies to address their environmental footprint.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Savills. Global occupier sentiment has strengthened, with research showing that prime office rents are expected to rise more firmly in 2026 than in the previous two years. Similar momentum is emerging across Asia Pacific, although the pace of activity differs by market, reflecting the region’s varied dynamics.

To ensure positive returns, leaders must be intentional about the implementation of programs that develop and maintain their workforce.

Design should respond to observable and measurable human behavior.

From our Thought Leader Partner, Cushman & Wakefield. There are few questions more consequential right now than what the real-world impact of artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be: on the built environment; on commerce and the economy; on how we live, work and play. Those who can strip away the hype and speculation, using the right data to identify the direction and pace of change, will be in a unique position to steer the future of their organizations for a generation to come.

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a digital transformation: algorithms, automation, and productivity gains. But beneath the software is something far more tangible. Massive, energy-intensive data centers are reshaping how and where organizations think about real estate.

Strategic design is a discipline of alignment—one that connects culture, process, leadership, and place into coherent systems that support sustained performance.