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Finding detailed information on buildings—as well as the companies and people associated with them—is expensive, time consuming, and often difficult. But a new website, Honestbuildings.com, is intended to make such information as easy to find—and relationships as easy to build—as it is to look up old college roommates on Facebook.
Private companies are going the last mile to ensure that their facilities are well served by transit. And they see it as a way to maintain their competitive edge.
A seven-story infill office building with a dramatic facade on a tiny downtown fringe site in Portland, Oregon, anchors the regeneration of an arcaded district.
Ten workplaces exemplify creative strategies for enabling collaboration and flexibility.
What does economic recovery mean for the industrial and office sectors?
A commercial real estate crisis in the U.S. is looming over the next two to three years, as at least $1.5 trillion in commercial mortgage debt issued over the past decade becomes due, said industry practitioners speaking at the National Association of Real Estate Editors conference in Denver.
Although trends in office design favor open, collaborative work spaces—with communal tables and devoid of cubicles, private offices, and many hallmarks of traditional workplace culture—for some businesses it still makes sense to take a more traditional approach to workplace design.
On any given morning, will your workplace be unreachable because a power failure rendered the doorway security system inoperable?
Members of the Young Leaders Group of ULI Orange County/Inland Empire put their skills to work helping those who help the disabled. They offered advice to Guide Dogs of the Desert, a Riverside County, California, nonprofit that pairs service dogs with people who are blind, with a plan for expanding its live-in training campus.
Federal agencies are under continuing pressure to reduce their demand for leased and build-to-suit space. They intend to reduce square footage used per employee, increase teleworking—and make better use of existing government buildings, administrators told a ULI WashingtonTrends conference audience.