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Having completed one of London’s smartest office buildings in recent years, MiddleCap’s innovations director Miloš Halečka dives into how his team puts tech at the heart of development.

Southworks, MiddleCap’s first development in the UK, completed in 2021, bringing 70,000 sq ft of tech-enabled, BREEAM Outstanding office space to the market. Now, the developer is looking ahead to its second UK project – Seal House – which aims to push the boundaries of tech even further.

Paul Unger is joined by Savills' director Jeremy Hinds and applied research consultant Paul Sayers to discuss climate change and how the rise in water levels could affect planning and property.

Kevin Wilhelm, country manager for the US and Canada at Sharry and Victor Sanchez, senior director & head of global design and build at LinkedIn, join Paul Unger to pose the question... What do we mean by workplace experience?

Kevin, Victor and Paul discuss the trends, what clients want and how software can support the workplace experience.

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A comms masterclass this week with three directors of Social, a leading ESG and tech PR agency – join Sara Donnelly, Andy Cameron-Smith and Luke Cross sharing their wisdom with Paul Unger.

Questions answered

Why does ESG matter in corporate communications?
How can tech enable businesses to meet green targets?
How can companies cut through the noise and be heard on climate messages?
What role does technology play in the decarbonisation of the property sector?
Given the growth of the Greentech sector, how can communications enable tech companies to compete?
How to approach ESG reporting and narrative development

Find out more about Social here: social-tech.co.uk

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Paul Unger is joined by Jeremy Hinds, planning director at Savills, and Tom Cheesewright to explore the reasons holding back real estate from taking the radical steps needed to challenge climate change.

Takeaways

There is a lack of a consensus framework in which to discuss the problems and how to address them
Without sufficient policy responses individuals will increasingly put forward radical ideas which prompt counter responses and only delay the forming of a consensus
Requirements to do something about climate change are very challenging – this puts people off
As timeframes to act become shorter, the responses needed become more radical
Short-term outlooks of voter-obsessed politicians obstruct the consensus and avoid difficult solutions
Climate policy should be outsourced and made independent and objective in same way as countries’ central banks often are

Gecina is a French real estate company which owns and operates €20bn of real estate assets, 97% located in the Paris region.

Takeaways


‘When we are at the beginning of the journey the most difficult part is spreading the innovation mindset, framework, and skills across the organisation’
‘The challenge is to deploy innovation at scale through our portfolio in operation where it makes sense’
‘Data management is the next big revolution for real estate. If you look at other industries and benchmarks you can easily realise that real estate is quite behind on this transformation’
‘The problem is not about technology, which is already available. The difficulty is the upskilling we have to do to be able to produce value with data’

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