Thought Leadership: Viewpoints
As companies return to the office in a post-pandemic world, there’s been difficulty getting more employees off their couches. Office vacancy rates are at an all-time high and there’s been a reluctance by owners to develop new commercial office spaces for fear of these vacancies. One way to convince companies and their employees to get back into the office is to provide them with best-in-class technology and user experiences that can’t be equaled at home.
I grew up on the Upper East side of Manhattan in the 60’s – 1st Avenue was cobblestone, a pizza slice was 15 cents and the Beatles and Stones permeated the airwaves.
The multifamily residential landscape in the San Francisco Bay Area is on everyone's minds as we balance the demand for housing at affordable levels with the cost of construction and bureaucratic obstacles.
While we await updated guidance from agencies and authorities, M+ is examining and envisioning how we will utilize our offices for the duration of the pandemic and post-pandemic.
Both Revit and AutoCAD are thoughtful, robust packages that continue to redefine the design process all over the world. That being said, there are tools being developed outside of Autodesk that greatly enhance what are already fantastic products.
How can we harness our competitive spirit and irrational exuberance to build taller and taller and leverage it to simultaneously build smarter and smarter?
The call to address the causes and effects of climate change has never felt more urgent.
The challenge is upon us and we are ready and able!
We are experiencing a renaissance within the electrical engineering industry related to high performance design and renewable technologies.
What is commissioning? It is much more than a LEED certification prerequisite.
Available power capacity is quickly becoming the biggest driver in the Real Estate market. It has always been location, location, and location that has driven commercial property value but now in the new frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) development, that location needs access to much higher densities of reliable and hopefully, renewable power supplies. This is becoming true in both the more densely developed urban markets as well as areas that traditionally support larger data centers.