Property management is going in different and new directions. Keeping up with trends may be burdensome, but there are things that can help guide a property manager or a property management firm to success, including new technology for property management. Among the things that managers and owners have to look out for are technological innovations. … Read more
Scenarios Challenge With 14,500 employees in Europe, a turnover of approximately 1.7 billion euros, and numerous projects in 70 countries worldwide, Sweco (formerly Grontmij) is the largest all-around consultancy and engineering firm in Europe. Henry Heida, Project Manager in Sweco’s Real Estate department, provides some background: “The Real Estate department consists of 3 teams: A Real Estate … Read more
Scenario Space & comfort monitoring using IoT sensor data and a smart building analytics platform Location Ministères Sociaux in Paris Solution IoT sensors for real-time space and comfort monitoring. The underlying smart building platform ingests and analyses the data; it also provides dashboards and insights allowing to optimize space layouts and indoor climate.
Metrics Scenarios Challenge Het Facilitair Bedrijf is a service organization, providing facility management support to all entities of the Flemish government. As a knowledge center, HFB is expected to implement best practices and use data-driven insight to improve performance. Furthermore, the organization recently moved 2,600 public servants from several locations to a newly renovated central … Read more
Metrics Scenario: car park management Reactive and preventive maintenance management. Service tickets and work order management. Analytics and KPI reporting. Challenge Q-Park is one of Europe’s leading car park management companies, running purpose-built and off-street parking facilities at targeted locations such as inner-city areas, public transport interchanges, and hospitals. The company needs efficient resource planning to … Read more
Scenario Ensure the balance between desk/room availability and space efficiency. Make it easy for employees to find free workspaces. Metrics HQ sensors: 80.000 ft², 4 floors Challenge Most office buildings today underperform. Hence there’s a huge opportunity for CREs to do better. Solution Cushman & Wakefield and Spacewell are using their combined experience to make buildings smarter and … Read more
The Connected Ministry project in Paris deploys IoT sensors for real-time space and comfort monitoring. The underlying smart building platform ingests and analyses the data; it also provides dashboards and insights allowing to optimize space layouts and indoor climate. Watch the video to learn more.
Most office buildings today underperform. Hence there’s a huge opportunity for CREs to do better. Cushman & Wakefield and Spacewell are using their combined experience to make buildings smarter and support the most valuable asset in your building: the people. Take a peek at this smart building solutions video to learn more.
Real estate innovation is picking up speed, driven by the IoT and flexible workspace demand. Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield understands this like no other. Therefore, Cushman & Wakefield partners with Spacewell to capture data from buildings and make it actionable for real estate managers and occupants. Improved space stacking As part … Read more
These days, all organizations have systems in place that generate huge amounts of data. Businesses realize it is an important resource. Yet many are not able to use it to its full potential. As ubiquitous as data has become (more data has been created in just the last two years than in the entire previous … Read more
Real estate management is becoming increasingly occupant-driven. In this context, independent research firm Verdantix has just released a new benchmarking report providing guidance to real estate and facilities decision-makers seeking software for space and workplace management, service delivery, and occupant well-being. Spacewell among top-scoring vendors IWMS and Smart Building provider Spacewell ranks among the top-scoring … Read more
Before the trend of Activity Based Working (ABW) took hold, ‘cubicle culture’ dominated the office landscape for decades. Picture rows of beige cubes in a minimally windowed workplace with harsh fluorescent lighting. These bland, soul-sapping environments — designed to cut space costs — encouraged monotonous styles of working. Moreover, the dominant technology tools of the … Read more
