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Employee turnover eroded some of the gains North American real estate industry made in broadening its professional profile last year. Recently released results of a second annual benchmarking exercise for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies and practices show a year-over-year increase in the proportion of women and people of colour across 171 participating companies,…

Rubberdesk’s new London Flexible Office Report reveals that although office space prices showed promising signs in the first half of 2022, rates quickly tumbled in the second half. Inflation, rising interest rates, the war in Ukraine, and market anxiety all contributed to prices dropping to their lowest level in three years – £600 per desk…

  Corporations are starting to invest in educating employees — in some cases, tens of thousands of them — about the relationship of sustainability and ESG issues to business success. Business leaders, in pursuit of meeting their science-based targets, are looking beyond green teams and community cleanups to motivate employees to incorporate sustainability at work…

  Learning Objectives Learn about master planning design and expectations with owners. Understand design considerations for electrical infrastructure in a campus expansion. Look at electrical room layout considerations. Insights: When figuring the blocking and stacking analysis, it is important for the engineering team to coordinate with the architect on space requirements for the electrical room…

    Automatic fire sprinkler systems have consistently demonstrated their ability to reduce the impact of unwanted fires. But when a sprinkler system fails, many times it is due to insufficient water reaching the fire. An NFPA® research report titled “U.S. Experience with Sprinklers” found that when a system fails to contain a fire, 50…