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The exponential growth in data creation and a significant shift toward cloud computing in recent years have driven soaring demand for data centers. Although artificial intelligence (AI) is frequently cited as the primary driver of the surge in demand for these facilities and their construction, JLL’s latest North America Data Center Report reveals a more nuanced reality. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the current market, challenges that the sector faces, and forecasts for the future of the booming data center industry.

State governments are looking at opportunities to support both education and energy goals through a comprehensive effort to improve schools’ energy efficiency. It is an idea that is gaining support among policy makers and community leaders. Learn how Oregon is putting its commitment to energy efficiency into practice in its public schools.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) professionals have had to quickly become experts in climate risk assessments, turning to an increasingly wide offering of climate risk analysis providers.

Part of the appeal of adaptive use is the way it creatively bends a building from one purpose to another, sometimes seemingly incompatible use, while allowing remnants of the past to coexist side by side with the present. Read how one-of-a-kind structures like a locomotive assembly plant, a mental asylum, and a public school have been adapted for surprising new uses.

On a sunny but bone-chilling windy day in late March, with the Rocky Mountain foothills flanking their views to the west, seven members of a ULI Advisory Services panel listened to the whistle of a freight train as it made its way slowly through the heart of Olde Town Arvada, Colorado, about seven miles (11.3 km) northwest of Denver. Their task: envisioning how changes to the physical environment could improve the health of Arvada residents.

As the recent cultural and real estate realignment called “The Great Mall Sorting” continues, A-plus malls are thriving, while the B and C properties are gradually being repurposed, reused, and completely rethought, according to architect Sean Slater, senior principal at the architectural firm RDC in San Diego.

A major mixed-use development on the old convention center site aims to tie downtown neighborhoods together and enhance the 24/7 urban vibe.

Where others have failed, triangle-based modular wood structures may achieve manufacturing economies for commercial and residential uses.

Developers are undertaking new solutions and adjusting old ones to demonstrate that storm-related and sea-rise resilience can be leveraged into user amenities and community benefits, making dollars stretch further.

In choosing the title for this book, Gabe Klein, best known as the former head of the city departments of transportation in Washington, D.C., and later Chicago, refers to the entrepreneurial mentality that public sector workers can bring to government.