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Negotiating commercial leases: Give the loser one last chance
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailFor many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.
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Negotiating commercial leases: Beware of the agent’s dual agency
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailFor many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.
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Lighting as a service on the rise in facilities worldwide, for good reason
Scott E. Rupp Facilities & GroundsLighting as a service (LaaS) solutions in commercial buildings might not be a new development, but the market is growing. Revenue forecasts are expected to rise exponentially throughout a good portion of the next decade as the landscape matures and competition heats up.
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Cities and power: The space between buildings
Lucy Wallwork EngineeringWhile cities used to be planned at the stroke of an architect's pen, a new era of "participative planning" is being sold to us as giving more power over decisions to ordinary people, to disperse more widely the power once held in the hands of "experts" and bureaucrats. But is the role of power missing from this conversation?
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How to earn (and keep) project sponsor support
Deborah Ike Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementAs the project manager, your relationship with the project sponsor can make or break a project. If you work well together and understand each other's working style, that can make even the most challenging project easier to manage.
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Europe reviews F-Gas success
Andrew Gaved ManufacturingThe last time I wrote to you, I was full of tales of the pain being felt by the cooling industry in Europe as the F-Gas regulations started to squeeze the market for higher-GWP refrigerants via its combination of restrictions on supply and bans on use. Now I can tell you that the European Commission has confirmed that such pain is precisely what it had in mind to drive the European industry towards better solutions for the environment.
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Negotiating commercial leases: Make all offers conditional
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailFor many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.
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Designing spaces to account for subjective response to noise
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesMuch attention has been paid to the negative impacts of noise on individuals' health and well-being. Research extending back two decades or more has demonstrated repeatedly that prolonged exposure to certain types of environmental or ambient noise can increase stress, disrupt sleep patterns, hamper cognition, decrease productivity and eventually lead to serious physical health problems, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
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Midwest emerging as bustling tech hub
Bill Becken Science & TechnologyTech businesses are leaving Silicon Valley, literally and figuratively. But where to? As an initial answer, it was perhaps 2017's biggest business story: Amazon, the online retailer, is looking for a new urban setting as an alternative to the Seattle metro area for its second North American headquarters (HQ2).
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Cities and power: Might is set in stone
Lucy Wallwork Construction & Building MaterialsThose in power have throughout history understood the visceral psychological and emotional impact that the built environment has on us. We all feel this as we pass under the shadow of a corporate skyscraper or across a windswept military parade ground. Only those in the most remote locations do not have their lives interrupted daily by buildings.
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