#Sustainability

Sometimes to solve for big-picture problems like Corporate or Higher Education Real Estate leases that have 3-6 year life cycles, looking at too fine an aperture can actually distract from your ability to notice patterns and trends in office utilization over quarters, semesters, or years. When...

Recent shifts toward hybrid working models, where more and more employees divide time between working in the corporate office and working remotely, have made it increasingly important for businesses to track, measure, and optimize their corporate workspaces. As the traditional office dynamic...

# The Workplace Transformation As a result of post-pandemic norms, the typical use of the workplace has shifted. As workplace leaders have reported in a 2023 CBRE study, the move to a hybrid environment is well under way, steadily increasing to almost ⅓ of the entire corporate workforce. For...

As businesses and employees continue to adopt new and dynamic working models, the ability to plan and manage office space is crucial. Proper office space planning is a way for businesses to optimize resources, foster collaboration, and support flexible work arrangements. With the rise of remote...

Office space planning has traditionally meant the intentional configuration of a workspace that carefully considers layout, furniture, and workflow to optimize employee productivity and safety. Since the COVID-19 upended traditional workspace layouts and working models, offices have evolved into...

_East Tennessee State University relied on unbiased data from Lambent Spaces to identify significant savings related to building utilization._ _Mason Bowen, ETSU’s Director of Emergency Operations, presented at Tradeline’s Space Strategies 2023 in October._ _Occupancy analytics data helped...

The term “restack” has been around a long time, but this particular CRE jargon is trending for sure – as leaseholders and corporate property owners in many cities face unprecedented rates of unused spaces. A restack project is complicated and requires very careful planning. But when your restack...

Innovative solutions like Lambent Spaces use Wi-Fi to estimate the number of people in physical spaces like buildings, classrooms, offices, and conference areas. This estimation is done by passively detecting devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches through the signals they...

KEY POINTS: Space Planning teams at college campuses answer to stakeholders throughout the entire campus – from Facilities to Provost and Registrar – and they need reliable, unbiased data to support decisions. Hybrid work locations impact colleges and universities and create new space assignment...

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....

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...