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In Focus: The Cleared Personnel Challenge
In defense-related site selection, access to workers who already hold security clearances can narrow the location search before incentives or real estate enter the discussion.
In Focus: AI Is Changing Incentives Math
Headcount-focused incentives punish evolving companies, payroll helps reward a different kind of growth.
In Focus: Will Serve Letters and Right-of-Way Acquisitions in Site Selection
Exploring the nuances of utility commitments and legal access.
In Focus: Is This Community Approach the Blueprint for Sustainable Industrial Development?
Industrial designers are exploring the transformative potential of landscape architecture to harmonize industrial development with environmental sustainability and community well-being.
In Focus: 5 Smart Building Resolutions for 2024
Building owners may look at the new year as a time to make good on goals they set for their buildings in previous years – whether that means upgrading outdated technology, focusing on net-zero carbon goals, or enhancing occupant experience.
In Focus: Rethinking Industrial Site Selection: A Retail Perspective
The idea of putting the needs of the potential workforce first when making the location decision mirrors retail’s tradition of prioritizing customer satisfaction.
In Focus: Working Toward Zero-Emission Buildings Ahead of Regulatory Mandates
All stakeholders working in unison will benefit the environment while also resulting in positive business outcomes.
In Focus: AI’s Influence on Data Center Growth
The use of AI is driving a surge in demand for computing power and the development of more data centers, which, in turn, have an increasing need for reliable power and water.
In Focus: Picking the Right Joint Venture Partners
Here are three tips to help construction firms use joint ventures to meet demand without increasing risk.
In Focus: Today’s Investments Inspiring Tomorrow’s Skilled Workforce Leaders
Investment in workforce training initiatives is essential not only to individual businesses but also to economic development on a local and national scale.
In Focus: The Facility’s Envelope-A Multifaceted Ecosystem
For infrastructure preparedness, a big picture and narrow focus are equally important.
In Focus: CEOs Are Underprepared for Cyber Threats
New regulations to expand cybersecurity expertise and reporting requirements can only help to eliminate the very real threats companies are facing on a daily basis.
In Focus: The CHIPS Act - A Historic Investment in Our Future
By helping to provide a critical domestic supply chain, the CHIPS Act represents a new era of American industrial competitiveness.
In Focus: “Golden Age” of Spec Development
The e-commerce revolution and its related supply chain challenges have created a surge in spec development of industrial and logistics space.
In Focus: Demand for Industrial Land Surges
The exponential growth of e-commerce has, in turn, accelerated the need for both warehouse and data center space.
In Focus: The Impact of E-Commerce on Industrial Real Estate
E-commerce fulfillment often demands three to four times the logistics space of traditional brick-and-mortar retail replenishment.
In Focus: Safety First-The Benefits of Construction Robotics
The use of construction robots can transform site safety for human workers, while monitoring processes that impact project timelines and budgets.
In Focus: Michigan Rises to the Competitive Challenge
As the competition heats up, the state is taking concrete steps to ensure Michigan maintains its advantage in attracting and retaining advanced technology companies.
In Focus: The Business Case for the Building of the Future
Investing in facilities now will yield financial and physical benefits in the short and long term.
In Focus: Redefining the “Smart” in Smart Cities
Emerging robotics and AI technologies can help meet critical goals of connectivity, equity, and sustainability.
In Focus: A PFAS State of Mind
While the law concerning PFAS is still in flux, property owners and operators need to consider its implications.
In Focus: The Future of Sustainability in Real Estate
As they realize the impact the built world has on the environment, companies are increasingly transitioning to cleaner, greener facilities and operations.
In Focus: The Challenge of Finding Improved Land
Because improved land is hard to come by, more investors and developers are evaluating true greenfield opportunities in far outer rings of major markets.
In Focus: The Construction Industry's Secret Weapon
The use of project controls specialists is still relatively unknown in the U.S., despite the fact that these consultants help to get projects delivered on time and on budget.
In Focus: Facilitating Commercial Real Estate Transactions Using Technology
By using emerging technologies to expedite the due diligence process, commercial real estate managers can save time and money, while managing risk.
In Focus: How to Compete in the Industrial Real Estate Gold Rush
The options for space and buildings within the world of industrial real estate are getting smaller.
In Focus: Creative Funding to Enable Sustainability
Organizations that are attempting to reduce their energy use or carbon footprint are finding there are affordable to ways to do so.
In Focus: The Effects of the Pandemic on Industrial Design
Industrial/logistics design will see a growth spike despite and because of the pandemic.
In Focus: Construction Tech Adoption Speeds Up
Despite the bleaker impacts of COVID-19, the pandemic has created the opportunity for construction technology adoption to dramatically accelerate.
In Focus: Driving Economic Prosperity Through Entrepreneurism
Entrepreneurism will be the “shot in the arm” the economy so desperately needs to recover.
In Focus: The Evolving Role of Outdoor Spaces
Outdoor collaboration zones can provide workers with a sense of safety and return to “normal” in a post-COVID-19 world.
In Focus: Increased Data Center Growth Driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic
With technology infiltrating almost all aspects of our lives, more and more data needs to be processed and stored.
In Focus: An Evolving Last Mile
The landscape of industrial last-mile facilities and distribution centers is expanding and diversifying.
In Focus: Sale-Leasebacks Help Companies Leverage Capital
Companies feeling the strain of the COVID-19 shutdown are finding new opportunities in sale-leasebacks.
In Focus: Is Your Workplace Ready for the “Next Normal?”
Safety concerns must be balanced with the benefits of a vibrant workplace culture.
In Focus: FDI Will Signal Better Days
The value and impact of FDI will remain an important part of the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
