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Negotiating commercial leases: Determine your bargaining strength

Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

For 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.

The future of surveying? Quantum computing and blockchain

Robert W. Foster Science & Technology

Forty-four years ago, the U.S. government introduced the global navigation satellite system — what's known today as GPS. I remember attending a seminar where this amazing technology was described with speculation about its application in surveying. The primary purpose of GPS was as a navigation system, but in its ability to solve positioning with precision, some futurist thinkers in the surveying profession could see an application, not only for the geodesist but for the land surveyor as well. To a flat-land surveyor familiar with chains and links, this was Buck Rogers stuff and highly theoretical.

How to retro-fit a post-Soviet city

Lucy Wallwork Engineering

As any visitor to the former Soviet Union will notice, every city touched by the Soviet authorities has an unmistakable flavor. The Soviets did not seek to incrementally change cities but to entirely reinvent them, making for dramatic transformations. The period of wild, laissez faire urbanism that followed independence in the 1990s injected chaos into the Soviet blueprint, leaving a further layer of challenges for planners today.

Preparing the RAC industry for the future

Andrew Gaved Facilities & Grounds

Europe is currently in the throes of dealing with the impact of the F-Gas regulation. The phasedown of HFCs is now starting to gather pace, and as a 37 percent drop in quota looms next year, the price of the higher-GWP refrigerants such as R404A is going through the roof as supply-and-demand principles kick in.

Negotiating commercial leases: Who makes the first offer?

Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

For 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.

‘Urbanism Without Effort’ — Are urban designers trying too…

Lucy Wallwork Civil & Government

Attempts at "placemaking" have been at the center of attention for urbanists for some time now. But is it really possible to "make" places? How successfully can architects and urban planners design strong communities into existence?

Boundary disputes: A tale of two townships

Wendy Lathrop Construction & Building Materials

While looking for a recent example of boundary line commissions in action for a workshop I was to present, I came across a 2015 case that not only illustrated the application of a particular statutory procedure but also presented some fine support of basic boundary principles.

Negotiating commercial leases: Size up your opponent

Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

For 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.

3 reasons your company should be using IoT

Delany Martinez Distribution & Warehousing

The internet of things (IoT) is still a relatively new concept for some businesses — especially companies long used to doing things the "old fashioned" way, via paper and face-to-face communication. Their products may be unrelated to technology, and therefore unlikely to demand the level of digital understanding that makes IoT onboarding easier for their tech-infused counterparts.

Sensory urbanism: Designing cities for our neglected senses

Lucy Wallwork Civil & Government

Urbanist circles are awash with new buzzwords — "everyday urbanism," "post-urbanism," "tactical urbanism," "urbanism without effort," and so on. Here, I introduce an intriguing one that is only slowly gathering popularity. This is "sensory urbanism." But what exactly does it mean? Sensory urbanism is a reaction against ways of thinking about and designing cities that are overdependent on our sense of sight.

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