The anemic economic recovery is causing facility real estate managers to take a conservative, short-term approach to their decisions.
Although applying green technology is important to a building's sustainability, components must be correctly designed and installed in order to maximize performance and building economy.
Through regional collaboration, cities/communities are leveraging their transportation, business, and cultural strengths, providing an advantage to companies that choose to locate in their regions, while helping grow their economies.
Despite today's high unemployment, the weak housing market has made potential hires unwilling - or unable - to relocate for a new job.
When it comes to real estate strategy and implementation, the CIO's role has become indelible and has fostered a new level of partnership with commercial real estate service providers.
The tax savings to be gained from greening your facility can make a significant contribution to your bottom line.
Utilizing the resources of nearby universities will help a company to engage in R&D, acquire best practices for business, and enhance work force development and recruitment.
With high unemployment rates and the critical need for job creation, performance indicators for economic development activity are needed now more than ever.
The end of summer brought bad weather - an earthquake rumbling Georgia to Maine and Hurricane Irene flooding areas all along the Atlantic Seaboard. When it comes to economic news, the nation was similarly assaulted.
Office buildings consume an enormous portion of our national energy production, impacting both the environment and company pocketbooks. It is time that office-building owners begin to explore solar system options.
DR has clearly emerged as an early example of "smart grid" enabling technology, empowering electricity users to reduce consumption - and get paid - for responding to grid emergencies or market-price events.
With its proximity not only to the east/west all-water route from Asia via the Panama Canal, but also its strategic position as the U.S. gateway to north/south trade with the emerging economies of Central and South America, Florida is fast-becoming a logistics hub.
The consortium, known as the Innovation and Materials Science Institute, includes organizations across a range of disciplines to help middle-stage technology companies fast-track new products to market.
While the U.S. industrial giant General Electric and foreign firms like Vestas, Siemens, and others dominate production of the large wind turbines used on massive wind farms, small and mid-sized companies across the United States are manufacturing smaller wind turbines designed for use at the top of office towers and in facilities such as airports and shopping malls.
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