Journal of Corporate Real Estate: Volume 4 Issue 3

Smart communities and smart growth ‐ Maximising benefits for the corporation

Charlie Hughes, Richard Spray

This paper addresses the relevance of ‘smart communities’ to corporate real estate. It defines smart communities within a context of smart growth, ethical investment, brownland…

Strategic facility management and technology: The case study of the University of Calgary

Don Dennis

The Campus Infrastructure (CI) Department at the University of Calgary absorbed a 25 per cent reduction in its operating budget in 1995. As a result, it was forced to transform…

Putting corporate real estate executives in the driver’s seat: Information technology tools enable new possibilities

Audrey Schriefer, Jyoti Ganesh

Tools for real estate planning, acquisition, disposition and portfolio management have improved dramatically over the past several years, creating new potential for corporate real…

User participation and the role of information and communication technology

Geert Dewulf, Juriaan van Meel

Office workers are hardly ever involved in the design of their buildings. Buildings, therefore, do not match the needs of the users. Today, more and more designers and managers…

Accommodating the new economy: The SANE space environment model

Andrew Harrison

Sustainable Accommodation for the New Economy (SANE) is a two‐year EC‐funded research programme considering the combined impact of the new economy on people, process, place and…

Workplace mind shifts

Michael L. Joroff

Digital technologies allow people to change the workplace in a fundamental way. The connectivity enabled by these technologies has opened new opportunities for how, when, and…

Customers in sight: Supporting corporate accommodation decisions with real estate data

Leo Hendriks

Information and communication technology (ICT) support of corporate accommodation processes with real estate data is not a simple subject. Insight is required into the primary…