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Navigating Uncertainty: Strategies For Success In Commercial Real Estate Amid Global Turmoil

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View of proposed Northwestern Mutual North Office Building. As part of a larger campus, the project aimed to create a consistent overall workplace experience for all their employees. Image courtesy of Lifang. 600 Fifth holistically reimagines the entire city block.

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Living Buildings Are On The Way — The Future Office Will Breathe, Digest And Grow

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In a project titled Symbiotic Architecture , designer Manas Bhatia uses the AI tool Midjourney to create visuals for what living buildings might look like in the context of the real world. They proposed that the structure of the living building be formed by enabling native trees to grow over a CNC (computer designed) plywood scaffold.

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EU building data project to drive full decarbonisation in three European countries

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Currently, almost all building regulations in Europe only address carbon emissions from the building operation, ignoring the emissions that are generated before a building comes into use and at the end of its life. Certain leading markets like Denmark, Finland, France and the Netherlands have already enacted whole life carbon policies.

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UKGBC publishes new guidance on embodied carbon emissions reporting for more rigorous carbon reduction strategy

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The GHG Protocol sets out a standard framework and tools for measuring emissions and is the most common way for organisations to fully assess the overall carbon footprint of activity. This must be followed by legal limits on the upfront embodied carbon emissions, with future revision and tightening.

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Businesses need to take real action to create a more sustainable workplace

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For example, in 2022 a high street bank had its advertising campaign pulled for promoting its tree-planting scheme and net-zero plan without acknowledging that it is financing fossil fuel projects. Changes don’t have to be massive to have an impact.

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Massive investment programme needed to facilitate carbon neutral future, WEF report claims

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trillion in investments is derived from average clean power generation costs of solar, off-shore and on-shore wind, nuclear and geothermal, electrolyzer costs for clean hydrogen and carbon transport, as well as storage costs. According to the report, the $13.5