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  As many as 2,373 retail stores are set to close across the United States, according to a Business Insider magazine tally of announcements by major retailers in 2023. At the top of the heap is Bed Bath and Beyond, which declared bankruptcy and has embarked on closures of nearly 900 stores. Other headliners include…

  It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our expectations for work and flexibility. The pandemic-induced paradigm shift, which catapulted remote work into the mainstream, has prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the traditional office environment. Where companies used to require more space, hybrid work models have lessened the need and therefore the desire…

High above Fantasyland, a maintenance crewman repaints one of the spires of Sleeping Beauty Castle.   In honor of Disney’s 100th anniversary, we’ve unarchived this Building Operating Management article from 1969 about maintaining the theme park In 2024, Building Operating Management is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Editor-in-Chief Dan Weltin has been looking through the archives…

  Europe is a global success story. It is a world leader in sustainability and social inclusion, two of the world’s most important issues. On inclusion, the top ten countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Social Mobility Index 2020 are all in Europe, and the continent sets the global pace on matters like gender…

Even though extensive research has been conducted on the net-zero transition, the socioeconomic impacts have not been considered at sufficient scale and complexity. We are developing the Climate Transition Impact Framework (C-TIF) to address this gap. We dedicated the past six months to examining the value and feasibility of harnessing existing climate scenarios to understand…

Emerging principles for outdoor lighting could help the stars regain lustre in the nighttime sky. The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), a leading developer of lighting standards, is collaborating with the research and advocacy organization, DarkSky International, in an effort to curb light pollution and promote installations that could also deliver energy savings and improve neighbourly…