Commercial

Digital twins can trigger the same human responses as physical locations, creating the potential for virtual reality to play a growing role in real estate design.

Adoption

How building analytics delivered savings for three industry leaders

January 31 2023, 11:34 am

Grosvenor, Avison Young and Legal & General have all turned to Demand Logic to help them pinpoint energy and cost savings in their buildings. William Hulls at Demand Logic explains the effect data analytics has had on these businesses.

Companies

European Space Agency backs geospatial project to protect utilities

January 16 2023, 5:08 pm

MGISS, a UK geospatial company, aims to understand how satellite imagery can identify areas where developments could disrupt gas and water supply.

Companies

Services startup forms $2bn business in merger

January 16 2023, 10:10 am

Lessen has acquired SMSAssist, a facilities maintenance tech company, in the largest private-to-private proptech M&A deal in history.

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Companies

Coyote boosts data offer with Forbury tie-up

January 13 2023, 11:39 am

By integrating Forbury’s investment modelling tools, Coyote aims to help real estate investment teams make faster, better-informed decisions.

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Strategy

VIDEO | Inside London’s greenest warehouse

January 11 2023, 10:14 am Karl Tomusk

Designed to be carbon negative, SEGRO Park Tottenham is the most sustainable warehouse the developer has built to date.

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Research

What Kone’s elevator data reveals about… European office occupancy

January 9 2023, 2:02 pm

Amsterdam’s office lifts made more journeys on average in 2022 than any other European city, with the number of starts doubling between January and November.

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Companies

Instant Group appoints chief client officer

January 4 2023, 4:59 pm

The flex office marketplace has hired Dominic O’Connor in a newly created role in its UK business.

Strategy

£30bn public building decarbonisation costs ‘tip of the iceberg’

December 21 2022, 10:46 am

Property consultancy Rapleys has warned that government projections about the cost of decarbonising the public estate underestimate true costs.

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Markets

RXR scraps $345m proptech SPAC

December 21 2022, 9:49 am

The developer has dropped plans to take a proptech company public via a blank cheque company, citing what it believed to be unsustainable startup valuations.