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We’re launching an all new online video broadcast series covering all the main challenges and solutions involved in making buildings smarter. Stay tuned for upcoming episodes and if you have any inquiries, please contact us.
The Energy Challenge in Commercial Real Estate
If Winston Churchill was right and we should never waste a good crisis, where are the areas of opportunity and how long have we been ignoring them? Get a first-hand look at how some are tackling this challenge, and some are transforming the industry.
Want to Become a Smart Organization?
Data driven decision making has gotten a lot of traction in the last few years. However, can we change a culture and an organization through
Relationship between Cultural Values, Sense of Community and Trust and the Effect of Trust in Workplace
Can you have a successful community without trust? And can you have a successful business without trust in the workplace? See just how important trust
Forum Contact Space: Serendipity in the Workplace
Can the innovation and connection power of serendipity be seized in a technical platform? Defined as a happy accident, serendipity if often overlooked but instigating
Community and Collaboration in a Shared Multi-space Office
Does community foster organically or does it form from organizational strategies? And how does the office layout play a part in building a community? See
Seeking Higher Ground: Navigating the FM Industry’s Transformation
How does facility management need to change? With various inflection points occuring at the same time, FM has the opportunity to change with the times.
ROI of the World’s Smartest Building
How much is it going to cost me or how much am I going to make? The surprisingly profitable strategies of the world’s smartest buildings.
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The Power of the Collective
Commercial real estate is currently at the convergence point of multiple crises. Global warming and environmental degradation has the sector focused on energy usage, sustainability, circularity, and decreasing environmental impact. Meanwhile, COVID 19 has accelerated the changing social norms of how real estate is used, where the general public no longer view corporate offices as essential.
Aligning the Complex Stakeholder Map
Everyone knows how hard it is to change an organization, but change is exactly what corporate real estate and companies must initiate. The pressures on the building and construction industry to reduce carbon emissions and for company executives to reduce operational costs while adapting to the demands of the modern workforce have made this a now-or-never moment.
More Than an Office: Creating Value 24/7
COVID 19 merely accelerated what was already a cosmic shift in societies’ approach to work and, by extension, commercial real estate. Remote working capabilities have revealed that people can still be productive — if not more so — with the power to choose how and where they focus without feeling like they’re being supervised on some kind of office assembly line.
About The Building Revolution Series
Too many of us — at the individual and company level — find ourselves paralyzed in thought by the many modern, existential crises bearing down on our collective humanity. Where each generation faced one or two great challenges in their lifetimes, it feels like we’re facing them all at once.
Maybe true, but what’s underreported is that there are many individuals and companies actively finding solutions.
This includes us at EDGE Next and the Smart Building Collective.
In corporate real estate, with 85% of company employees feeling disengaged and 39% of global carbon emissions
generated from office building construction and operation, we sit at a unique point of convergence with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to solve two crises at once.
Because of the many years of experience and expertise our partners bring to the collective, we understand how buildings behave, how they perform both well and poorly. We’ve connected the dots enough to create new technologies that significantly improve building and office space behavior to make them more sustainable for the planet and more livable for the workforce.
This is why we’ve started The Building Revolution.
