Universities are becoming aware of the need for more space as students get ready to return to campus for the fall term. As the semester approaches, space planners in higher education are at the center of disputes about space because there isn’t enough of it. They keep coming back to one central...
Key Points Activity-Based Workspaces are meant to encourage and enable specific behaviors for employees who want to gather to whiteboard, workshop, watch a training or eat lunch together. It’s a workplace-design ethos that isn’t new but is now a priority as corporate leaders sweat out RTO rates....
KEY POINTS The Return-to-Office trend seems to have stalled. Many companies are landing on a hybrid work strategy with an average of 2.5 days in a corporate space. Nearly 60% of companies are settled into Hybrid Work Schedules. Despite some companies demanding employees return to offices full...
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...
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...
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...
As students and employees returned to buildings and offices, sensors were an obvious choice for many administrators. They made sense for many hybrid work environments with so many companies trying to determine how many employees or students are in a space at one time. There’s reasons to...
Workplace design strategy isn’t what it used to be. Hybrid work, remote work, and the increased demand for mixed-use and flexible-use spaces have created unprecedented complexity for space planners across all industry sectors. Workspace design requirements are shifting on a dime, leaving space...
In Minneapolis, Wells Fargo, Inc. wants a Space Planner who is able to review and resolve all space requests in the queue. In Massachusetts, Moderna, Inc. wants a candidate to act as a MAC (Move, Add, Change) lead for employee moves. And global real estate management company CBRE is looking for...
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