EXPO REAL welcomed almost 40,000 real estate professionals to Munich last week, writes Melis Karabulut of Spaceflow. The event was almost as buzzing as it used to be before the pandemic, and more engaging, fun, sustainable and progressive than ever before.

Rather than pour money into expensive, sophisticated tech, The Future Works took an “organic approach” with strong design fundamentals to achieve superb air quality.

Sustainability is a consideration that has permeated every aspect of the built environment, write Matthew Fitzgerald and Kelcie Sellers. In the face of an immediate energy price crisis, landlords must retain sight of the long game.

Supporting scientists measuring everything from glacier movements to volcanic activity, the AGU pledged to put the environment at the heart of its HQ renovation. The result? Washington DC’s first net zero office retrofit.

Perceptions of the office as the best place for collaboration are partly misplaced, according to Leesman, the employee experience experts.

Summer is over, so it’s back to school, back to work and – if you’re in real estate – back to asking workers to give the office another chance.

“If we’re going to make progress, we have to have a system that recognises greatness,” the co-founder of Smart Building Certification said at the Sustainable Places conference in Nice, France.

Where would you open a flexible office in a hyper-competitive market? The middle of a city teeming with giant multinationals, fledgling startups and the people who keep them all ticking – or at the heart of a suburban collective founded on utopian ideals?

Office leasing tool Bright Spaces has added Bruntwood Works as its second client in the UK.