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Fewer Days in the Office -- Peak Occupancy Falls From 60% to 40%

A recent article in wtopNews interviewed a moving and logistic specialist about the future of workplace post-pandemic. Among other thoughts, she notes that peak occupancy is falling from an already low level of 60% down to 40%. It's amazing to think that we invest all this money into our buildings just to achieve a 40% occupancy level. Compound that with the fact that that occupancy only lasts a couple hours a day. Most of the day it's even lower, falling to 0% at night, whic

"Superdays" Are Here! How the World of Work Has Reversed

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article In the Hybrid Era, On-Sites Are the New Off-Sites explores the global shift from working everyday at the office to working everyday at home and coming to the office when it makes sense. While this not be the future for every organization, many will continue forward like this after the pandemic. One of those continuing forward is EA Markets, a company that decided to get rid of its HQ and let employees work from anywhere. But i

How to Optimize and Promote Healthy Buildings Through Technology and Data Analysis

According to Buildings Magazine, there is some important things to think about in our future regarding the improvement of life quality. There is some essential areas that need to be taken into account in order to optimize design and space planning: Healthy people, related to air quality, environmental personalization, and better security for the people in their houses; Healthy places about using building systems containing high levels automation including preventive maintenan

How Technologies in Commercial Design are a Catalyst for Growth

The FreePress Journal released an article that talks about how technological disruptions are changing commercial interior design. After the pandemic, this industry has passed through a “silent digital revolution” since social distancing norms and work from home models are modifying consumption habits. “With evolving work culture across the globe, the commercial interior design segment is no longer limited to creating functional spaces. Instead, it has imbibed a whole new asp

Offices Market: A Sector with Major Changes After the Pandemic

After the pandemic, hybrid and remote work have become more common than before. Offices are not a place focused to work anymore, but instead, a destination for collaboration. These changes have also modified the way firms are planning office design and space optimization: “meeting rooms and open plan café.like seating areas are replacing offices - and where you sit and work no longer denotes your place in the hierarchy”. “By the numbers: Some 60% of firms are redesigning thei

Workplace of the Future is the Perfect Combination of a Coffee Shop, Your Home and the Office

Bloomberg released a publication that analyzes how the workplace of the future should be. The traditional way to work, after the pandemic, is obsolete. New models are emerging to satisfy the new demand of knowledge workers. One of these new projects is called ‘Neighborhood Clubhouse’, which is a work model that exists “somewhere between a coffee shop and a coworking space”. “Enter the neighborhood clubhouse. I like to describe it as flipping the model of a coffee shop. In a

System Optimization: Hybrid Workplaces, the Future of Companies that Implement Hybrid Models

Harvard Business Review released an article about the effects of the pandemic in workspaces. Adaptability is the only way to face the new challenges of the post-covid world. 50% of companies are already planning to pilot new workspaces that fit with the new hybrid model. “For example, repurposing a café into a high-energy social and collaboration space that better supports new hybrid work patterns”. The article propose 4 strategies that can help building hybrid workspaces tha

Nationwide Infrastructure Strategies Will Have a Positive Impact on Real Estate Industry

The criteria that shapes the new infrastructure projects, particularly in transportation, will have a positive impact on the real estate sector. According to SmartBrief, excellent investment opportunities for real estate are coming from new infrastructure projects that are climate change resistant, value the previously marginalized neighborhoods, take in consideration traffic patterns and facilitate communication between places (transportation). “Remy Raisner pointed out that

Real Estate Industry is turning its focus to sustainability and social purpose

Following the pandemic the demand for greener, more sustainable and healthier places has increased. According to Cision, this triggered an interest in investors and city authorities that are now committed, more than ever, to decarbonize the Real Estate industry. According to a recent study made by JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management, achieving our low-carbon emissions targets is not possible without

How to Optimize Health Care Real Estate Businesses?

Now, more than ever, optimization has become an important goal for the health care sector. And this means, to pay attention to market efficiencies, access to capital and cost management to drive decision making. Modern Healthcare Magazine shared an article that revealed some interesting ideas on how the healthcare industry can reshape their businesses to seize new opportunities by reducing costs, aligning strategies and enhancing value. “When properly deployed, organizational

Data analysis is the key factor to gain a competitive advantage in the Real Estate Sector

Data analytics can be a very powerful tool to empower commercial real estate businesses. A recent article inMondaq written by Joy A. Long, Head of Strategy, Infrastructure Development and Implementation of the Marketing Department at Orba, analyzes the way the Real Estate sector can increase its revenues by using analytics. The easiest part is to generate data. Businesses are constantly creating massive amounts of it. The hardest part can be harnessing it for profit. “For exa

How COVID 19 is shaping the commercial real estate sector?

The pandemic has been a determining factor of change for the commercial real estate industry. The leasing contracts have tended to diminish and landlords have been obligated to be more flexible in their negotiations. The commercial real estate sector, which includes hotels; restaurants; office buildings; retail stores and malls; has radically changed its long-term expectations and forecasts. A recent article written by Anita S. Westcott, CPA member of ORBA’s Real Estate Group

Global Real Estate Chief Executives Provide Key Enablers to Understand the Industry Changes

On april 21, the World Economic Forum released a report called ‘A Framework for The Future of Real Estate’, in which CEO’s from the industry shared their vision for the future of communities, cities and buildings keeping in mind important factors: liveability, sustainability, resilience and affordability. “Real estate stands at a crossroads as cities adjust to the new realities of a post-COVID era, climate change and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this transformation of re

Accelerated Trend: Pandemic Shows an Increased Demand of Low-Rise Office Spaces

Space needs are always changing and even more so as companies look post COVID-19. From temperature checks in lobbies to lines to get in and out of parking garages and elevators and a lack of operable windows and outdoor space, high-rise towers are becoming less popular office environments. People are going back to work and the office market is reactivating. But what are the tenants looking for? “We’ve seen tenants contemplating going from a more high-rise office building to a