Area Development Magazine Special Presentation (Q1 2014)
The results of our survey show a modest improvement in short-range new facility and expansion plans, as well as a realignment of site selection priorities with the availability of skilled labor being the number one concern, outranking highway accessibility and labor costs.
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Todd Bixby, Partner; Tax Technology Practice Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Michael W. Burak, US & Global Industrial Products Tax Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Q1 2014)
A tax technology strategy will enable a company to align with the company’s business priorities, tax function strategy, and enterprise technology investments.
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Grant Miller, Vice President, Colliers International and Don Moss, Vice President, Colliers International (Directory 2014)
Companies need to determine which incentives are of most value to them and also make sure they are utilizing all the incentives to which they are entitled.
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Spencer Rigler, Elster EnergyICT (Directory 2014)
Businesses have traditionally approached energy consumption as a fixed overhead, but the real opportunities lie in approaching it as a variable cost that can be tightly controlled with advanced energy-management systems.
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Larry Gigerich, Managing Director , Ginovus (Directory 2014)
A thorough investigation of key criteria will allow a company to determine whether expanding at its current location or relocating will yield the best results.
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Kate Vitasek, Faculty, Center for Executive Education, University of Tennessee, and Joseph Tillman, Vice President, Transportation, KS Harvesters (Directory 2014)
In a unique arrangement, P&G outsourced its facilities management, along with several other functions, creating a collaborative, win-win relationship with its service providers.
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Kate Vitasek, Faculty, Center for Executive Education, University of Tennessee, and Joseph Tillman, Vice President, Transportation, KS Harvesters (Directory 2014)
Outsourcing agreements crafted according to the 10 elements and five rules of “Vested” result in truly collaborative agreements and a win-win situation for the parties involved.
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Mark Crawford (Q4 / Fall 2013)
Of course, it’s less expensive to rehab an existing facility than go with a build-to-suit, but the latter will give a company a custom fit. This is the Sixth in a series of articles examining the top-10 site selection factors as decided by the respondents to AD's Q1 Corporate Executive Survey.
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Jeff Burnstein, President, Association for Advancing Automation (Q4 / Fall 2013)
The Robotic Industries Association estimates that some 230,000 robots are now in use in U.S. factories, placing the United States second only to Japan in robot use. To find out more about this, the editor of Area Development recently spoke with Jeff Burnstein, president of the Robotic Industries Association, as well as president of the Association for Advancing Automation (A3).
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Brad Witter, Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations , Blue Pillar, Inc. (Q4 / Fall 2013)
Today’s facility managers are faced with the challenge of finding systems that securely automate and centralize their organization’s disparate, but critical, energy assets.
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Beth Mattson-Teig (Q4 / Fall 2013)
Biotechnology is driving growth in the life sciences sector, which has faced numerous challenges, particularly in the pharmaceuticals industry.
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Dr. Aaron Peacock , Environmental Scientist, Haley & Aldrich (Q3 / Summer 2013)
New advancements in the application of biological treatments and analytical technologies are reducing redevelopment and remediation risks at formerly contaminated sites.
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Area Development Online Research Desk (Q2 / Spring 2013)
Corporate real estate executives are being asked to do more with less, but CRE leaders have an opportunity to drive productivity and affect corporate competitiveness like at no other time.
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Jason Beck, Director of Life Sciences, Evergreen EDC, SSOE Group (Q2 / Spring 2013)
The temporary shutdown of a manufacturing plant for improvements in equipment and processes must be made with the utmost planning and coordination to achieve the desired aims in the most timely, safest, and cost-efficient manner.
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Jim Marchese, Associate, Stantec and Chuck Rudderow, Associate, Stantec (Q2 / Spring 2013)
Building owners and facility managers can reap the benefits of using building information modeling (BIM) long after construction is complete.
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Dan Probst, Chairman of Energy and Sustainability Services, Jones Lang LaSalle (Q2 / Spring 2013)
Smart-grid technologies could not only prevent or alleviate outages, but also save companies money while capturing and marketing wasted energy.
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Kathy Mussio, Managing Partner, Atlas Insight, LLC (Q2 / Spring 2013)
A rare and disruptive event, headquarters relocation projects have the potential to be positive game-changers for a business but also involve substantial risk. Here, we reveal the reasons, factors and trends affecting such a decision.
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Paul Bedard, Director, Global Enterprise Data Solutions, Verizon Enterprise Solutions (April 2013)
Mobile technologies can assist in all phases of the construction process, helping to make the workflow seamless while simultaneously keeping costs in check.
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Area Development Magazine Special Presentation (Q1 / Winter 2013)
Although the survey results show no dramatic upswings in new facility or expansion plans, there are noted changes in site selection priorities – perhaps as a result of the lackluster economic recovery.
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David Kamen, Vice President, Global Portfolio Strategy, Global Workplace Solutions, Johnson Controls and Ron Zappile, Manager, Strategic Real Estate Consulting Services, Johnson Controls (Q1 / Winter 2013)
When preparing for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) new lease accounting rules, companies must assess the impact of these standards on the value of the their lease obligations on a capitalized basis. This can be done by calculating the total cash payments of leases, any anticipatory changes in the total lease term length and the imputed interest expense, and then repaying the costs over the anticipated length of the lease. This process can be completed in the following six steps:
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