In today?s highly competitive marketplace, acquiring and retaining commercial tenants is less about the building and more about its occupants. A dramatic shift has taken place, making building owners who were once selling physical assets into service providers who now need to find ways...
The most significant artificial intelligence-based PropTech innovation to hit the shelves this week isn?t a digital twin or a smart building app - it's robot janitors. But fear not, they will not take your jobs, at least not yet.
Walmart, the largest American multi-national retail...
Heightened vigilance and real-time awareness have become increasingly important in preventing the loss of human life and addressing emergencies situations at university campuses. Now Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-SA) has become the first campus in the world to deploy an indoor positioning system to...
As deadly wildfires continue to ravage homes in California?s Malibu coast, a new construction technology startup is building modular homes that can stand up to wildfires, floods, and other natural disasters. Boxabl, a Las Vegas-based company, has started prototype production of modular fireproof home...
The commercial real estate industry is undergoing massive structural change through a concept known as space-as-a-service. Space-as-a-service (SPaaS) is a paradigm shift in the way in which the commercial real estate industry has provided products and services to tenants and has changed the role...
McDonald?s improved employee workplace satisfaction by 76% through a smart building workplace app at the company?s new offices located in downtown Chicago.
?A simple feel-good moment, that was the corporate vision for our new headquarters. ?We wanted technology to drive the smart workplace experience and...
A smart building uses technology to lower operating costs and serve up amenities
What makes a building a smart building? Well, it depends who you ask, according to Brandon Van Orden, senior vice president and chief information officer for Cousins Properties, which boasts a portfolio...
As electrical systems in commercial office buildings and facilities age, the probability for system failures and safety issues increase exponentially - resulting in costly disruptions. Now Schneider Electric has created a new thermal-environmental smart building sensor, Access Connect which allows facility managers to monitor...
While legacy commercial real estate VC?s continue to ignore the elephant in the room, industry outsiders are preparing to disrupt what's arguably the biggest opportunity in PropTech- the fractional ownership of real estate assets by offering digital security tokens.
Harbor, founded by serial entrepreneur and...
Why is 5G so important to industrial manufacturing plants?
5G will provide manufacturing robots and other IoT devices in industrial plants and manufacturing facilities with greater security, reduced latency and dramatically increased connection speeds and reliability. The latency angle is perhaps the most significant benefit...
The massive proliferation of PropTech startups seeking coveted investment dollars from a growing number of venture capital firms and other investors is making it difficult to separate the signal from the noise.
The state of the industry
In the last two years, more than $18.6 billion...
Chicago-based commercial real estate firm, Zeller Realty Group (ZRG), is masterfully transforming the value in the Midwest commercial office marketplace by leveraging connectivity and proptech solutions to create amenity-based tenant communities.
We caught up with commercial real estate industry veteran and ZRG's Principal and Chief...
Partnering in U.K. for in-building small cells
Huawei jointly announced the launch of an in-building 5G system, dubbed a Digital Indoor System (DIS), to provide indoor cellular coverage at Istanbul?s new airport, and is partnering in the U.K. with neutral host provider Stratto?to provide improved...
Connectivity attracts entrepreneurs, tech companies and corporate HQs
Dallas Fort Worth, the nation?s fifth largest technology hub is advancing its connectivity infrastructure by digitally scoring the city?s commercial office buildings.
In a press conference joined by Mayor Mike Rawlings and influential commercial real estate leaders and...
Jones Lang LaSalle Income Property Trust, Inc (JLL), continued to execute on an acquisition strategy aimed to drive operational and investment performance while positioning the company for future growth and enhanced stockholder value in the third quarter of 2018.
The REIT, which owns and manages...
Harnessing the true potential of the internet of things in smart buildings will depend on how building owners and managers operationalize and use the data available from sensors and device in the context of improving efficiencies. This broad concept of PropTech--using technology to improve...
Join us for the opening episode of In-Building Tech?s PropTech Webinar series.
PropTech has emerged as a force to be reckoned with and investments keep flowing in by the truck load. Commercial real estate assets are being transformed into technological wonders thanks to our incessant...
Workforce mobility prompted investment in signal boosters
Ameren Electric, one of the largest electricity and gas provider in Illinois and Missouri, recently deployed Wilson Electronic's cellular signal boosters to enhance coverage in 12 of its mission-critical operation centers for field and construction engineers.
The St. Louis-based...
PropTech drawing billions in investment from REITs
Verdigris Technologies, a leading developer of artificial intelligence technology (AI) platforms for smart building energy management, has launched a new PropTech solution that enables facility managers to pinpoint device-level causes of energy waste in commercial office buildings and...
PropTech trends sees retail space following the co-working model
Proptech startups Fourpost and BrandBox are transforming the traditional retail model by adapting the co-working concept to retail through a concept dubbed "brandboxing," which offers flexible terms and all-inclusive set-ups to online retailers to test and...
With more than 5.6 million commercial buildings in the U.S., it is critical for commercial real estate building owners and landlords to provide a robust connectivity infrastructure that enables officials to respond in emergencies.
Among the top priorities, according to the Safer Buildings Coalition,...
The colossal success of the co-working business model in the workplace is now transforming where and how people live. ?Common, one of the largest providers of co-living accommodations in the U.S., announced that it will open its first location in Manhattan?s Hell?s Kitchen through...
Nearly 60% of U.S. organizations to make smart building energy investments in 2019
More than 75% of U.S. companies and organizations are paying more attention to investments in energy efficiency and smart building technology with a focus on building controls and building systems integration, according...
Johnson Controls International (JCI) will sell its Power Solutions business due to its capital-intensive nature to Brookfield Business Partners L.P. in a cash transaction valued at $13.2 billion.
?Our power solutions business has built tremendous scale over the years, with leading market positions across the...
