Lambent today made dual announcements as part of their campaign to help campuses and venues reopen with confidence. A new partnership with the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), part of Major League Soccer (MLS), will help ensure the safe return of fans to LAFC games. The MLS club will implement...
The rules for the new workplace experience are still being written. Employers are walking a fine line as they try to offer up a smart space and place for employees to get their best work done – and not simply reopen the same old offices. So, what have we learned in the last two years? A lot of...
When it comes to reopening corporate spaces, there are still many unknowns. Should I renew my prior lease? Who will work full time in the office? Will they all get desks? But one thing is for sure: Space utilization will be top of mind for anyone managing an office building or campus. Our...
Although a lot of parents argue that video games aren’t good for their children, it’s possible all that screen time may translate to college scholarship dollars. In the past decade, universities have integrated esports into their athletic departments and worked to recruit top-tier gamers across...
The latest CBRE research reveals utilization as the top metric Corporate Real Estate (CRE) leaders prioritize when considering portfolio performance. Utilization locked in the top spot for the second consecutive year, landing in front of Cost Per Seat and Seat Density – two drill-down metrics....
At University of Nebraska, at William & Mary, at University of Tennessee, Knoxville – at just about any modern college campus – annual Space Planning reports require making predictions about how much new space needs to be allocated – or not – and where. In 2023, though, campus planning decisions...
There are lots of reasons to love your IWMS – generating detailed work orders, automating preventative maintenance, and seeing portfolio-wide energy use metrics. What is IWMS? Ideally, these systems offer a centralized platform for real estate portfolio management, including infrastructure and...
If you’ve ever been issued a corporate badge for building access at your college or workspace, chances are you’ve accidentally let someone in after you. It’s called piggybacking, and no matter how many times you might have been told not to – it’s hard to avoid when you see a friend fishing around...
Do-it-yourself (DIY) software projects on campuses where brilliant research and development talent is abundant makes sense – at first glance. At Higher Education campuses of all sizes, build-or-buy considerations are not that different from ones discussed in the private sector. Things like...
When students returned to campuses and classes this fall, many colleges and universities found themselves at opposite ends of a housing crisis: a shortage of space for first-year students who deferred or didn’t enroll in a full course load during the height of the pandemic. Meanwhile, others...
Three critical themes emerged from our recent Lambent webinar “ _Flexibility for the Future: Strategic Campus Planning_ _”_ featuring Marc Fournier, Georgetown University VP of Real Estate and Auxiliary Services and Edward Wagoner, Real Estate Leader and CIO, JLL. Higher Education Hybrid:...
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are building out more types of campus spaces to differentiate their brand and outpace their competitors. From popular vendors (Starbucks) and whiteboard collaboration spaces in libraries to Esports arenas and combination lounge-study spaces, popular modern...
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