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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. The reuse of the building’s structure greatly minimizes the project’s overall carbon footprint and reduces construction time which in turn minimizes employee displacement. 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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They proposed that the structure of the living building be formed by enabling native trees to grow over a CNC (computer designed) plywood scaffold. Mycelium is low-cost, low-density and has a low carbon footprint. Technology can act as a springboard for transforming living building ideas into lived realities.

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

Workplace Insight

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.

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

Workplace Insight

The announcement last month that the European Commission has proposed new rules to tackle greenwashing suggests that we’re all tired of empty promises and want to see real action taken in the business community. Changes don’t have to be massive to have an impact.

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

Workplace Insight

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

Workplace Insight

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

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Five Reasons It's a Good Idea to Stay on a Sinking Ship

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You are asked to re-use ovenight envelopes -- and not because the boss cares about the company's carbon footprint. The woman told me that the organization became much more open to new ideas, including ones she proposed. Unknown people are seen going into top brass offices and holding closed-door meetings for hours.