VIDEO | Landlord and tenant collaboration on ESG

Communications consultancy Social sat down with PlaceTech to discuss the meaning behind ESG, why it’s important to have a clear definition, and how it relates to retrofit at our ESG: The Retrofit Playbook event.

Bright Spaces is a European venture-backed proptech startup that helps boost office marketing and leasing through 3D digital twins designed for today’s market.

Improving the energy efficiency of historic properties could reduce carbon emissions from the UK’s buildings by an estimated 5% each year and generate £35bn of output in the economy, while making homes warmer and cheaper to run, according to a report by the National Trust, Peabody, Historic England, The Crown Estate and Grosvenor.

Sharry, a company developing a workplace experience platform around digital employee badges, has completed its largest project in the Czech Republic yet.

Major developers and investors including Ashby Capital, Grosvenor, General Projects, FORE Partnership, Orchard Street and Fidelity, came together to share practical insights into delivering retrofit projects.

While San Francisco, New York and Silicon Valley still dominate the top of Savills 2023 global ranking of ‘Tech Cities’, founders working in niche sub-sectors have an emerging array of other cities where homegrown ecosystems could specifically foster these specialisms.

Global real estate investor, operator and developer Brookfield has adopted marketing tool Showhere, reflecting increasing demand from the property industry for customised, digital methods of marketing buildings.

Global VC Pi Labs has kicked off its 2023 Growth Programme, backing five early-stage start-ups that have developed technological solutions that are expected to positively impact the way businesses and societies interact with the built world.

The software supplier for coworking sites said it has started a global reorganisation of operations to “position it for sustainable growth, profitability and a return to cash generation”.

The early update to the British Council for Offices’ most recognised publication, ‘Guide to Specification’, responds to challenges emerging from the pandemic and the accelerating need for the built environment to address climate change.

The building technologies supplier has partnered with property company Sellar to deliver a smart-enabled user experience platform for occupiers of the development at the heart of Paddington’s regeneration.