29
Jun
2016
Sustainable Design for Humans
Posted On June 29, 2016  By Brielle Scott  And has No Comment

In 2013, Delos established the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) to administer the WELL standard in late 2014. The IWBI describes the standard as “[marrying] best practices in design and construction with evidence-based medical and scientific research – harnessing the built environment as a vehicle to […]

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17
Jun
2016
Is Wearable Technology Closing the Gender Gap?
Posted On June 17, 2016  By Kathryn Hamilton  And has 1 Comment

“Digital fluency” – or the extent to which both men and women have embraced digital technologies to achieve a competitive advantage – is leveling the playing field for men and women in commercial real estate. RE:Tech says that wearables and other emerging technologies have a positive […]

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13
Jun
2016
Pop-Up (Outdoor) Offices
Posted On June 13, 2016  By Kathryn Hamilton  And has No Comment

Co-working centers and communal, open workspaces may have launched the revolution of the typical office, and now the concept is branching beyond four walls into the shape of pop-up, outdoor offices. OUTBOX, a first-of-its-kind outdoor workspace, opens this month in Silver Spring, Maryland. Designed by applied technology […]

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10
Jun
2016
Exponential Future of CRE
Posted On June 10, 2016  By Kathryn Hamilton  And has No Comment

“The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.” – Peter Diamandis, founder of X-Prize, best-selling author and accomplished entrepreneur. The speed of transformation related to technology is astonishing. Computers today are 138,000 times more powerful than they were in 1988, and nearly […]

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09
Jun
2016
What Does Brown Do For You?
Posted On June 9, 2016  By Kathryn Hamilton  And has No Comment

Fun fact: The number of route combinations a UPS driver can make in a day is far greater than the number of nanoseconds the Earth has existed. UPS has 100,000+ (brown) vehicles, 2,800 worldwide facilities in 220 counties – and continues to grow along with globalization, […]

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08
Jun
2016
Watch Robots (and a Few Humans) Build Tesla Cars
Posted On June 8, 2016  By Julie D. Stern  And has 1 Comment

The cover of the spring issue of Development magazine comes to life in a Wired YouTube video, “How the Tesla Model S Is Made.” Thank you, NAIOP New Mexico members Dale Dekker and Kurt Browning, for alerting us to this video, which demonstrates how 3,000 workers […]

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20
May
2016
Will Google Build Smart Cities?
Posted On May 20, 2016  By Kathryn Hamilton  And has No Comment

Real estate meets technology giant as Alphabet Inc., parent of Google, takes on development not for the web, but for “smart” cities. The Wall Street Journal reports that Sidewalk Labs, the company’s division that works with cities to build products addressing big urban problems, “is putting […]

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11
Mar
2016
Location is Key in the Growing Appetite for Data – and Data Centers
Posted On March 11, 2016  By Jon Meisel  And has No Comment

The world’s appetite for data is insatiable. Experts project a 4,300 percent increase in data generation over the next five years, putting excessive pressure on data center operators to profitably manage this data gluttony. And every bit – or byte – of data requires space on […]

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29
Feb
2016
Food Fight: The Competitive Market of Same-Day Grocery Delivery
Posted On February 29, 2016  By Kathryn Hamilton  And has 1 Comment

It’s a battle of the titans as Amazon and Google go toe-to-toe with same-day grocery delivery with Amazon Fresh and Google Express. Who will deliver your organic milk, eggs and kale the fastest? Amazon Fresh, part of the company’s Prime Now program, launched in 2015 and […]

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04
Feb
2016
Street Furniture Gets Smart
Posted On February 4, 2016  By Julie D. Stern  And has 3 Comments

Various types of street furniture — the benches, tables, bus stops, signs, lightposts, taxi stands and even waste receptacles placed in public and private outdoor spaces by cities and property owners — are gradually joining the vast “Internet of Things.” These cloud-connected devices offer property owners […]

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