How facility managers should buy AI-HVAC while the vendor field consolidates — contracts, exit clauses, and data portability.
For a decade, "green building" meant kWh per square foot — operational carbon. In 2026 that framing quietly broke. A new Cushman & Wakefield study puts a number on what embodied and Scope 3 carbon performance is worth to a Shanghai office asset (37…
The retrofit underwriting math for building-performance-standard penalties, worked through a large-building test case.
JLL's 2026 corporate real estate data shows global office utilization at 54% against an enterprise target of 79% — a 25-point gap, wider than the 18-point gap most teams were still using as their 2025 baseline.
Through the first half of 2026, grid-interactive demand flexibility crossed the line from pilot to procurement. New aggregator partnerships, a doubling of contracted virtual-power-plant (VPP) capacity, and the first contractual AI-data-center…
Proptech venture funding hit $16.7B in 2025 (+67.9% YoY) and accelerated into 2026 — but the money is concentrating violently. In 2025, just 31 companies captured over 72% of all proptech capital, and AI-native firms grew funding at 42% annually…
The Building-as-a-Service (BaaS) and "building operating system" category spent 2025 fighting over apps — dashboards, fault detection, autonomous control.
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The global gap between target and actual office utilization just hit its lowest point since the pandemic — 18 percentage points, down from 25 a year ago. That sounds like progress, but for facility managers it is a warning.