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The deferred maintenance crisis plaguing many institutional and commercial facilities actually presents managers with two huge challenges. The first challenge, obviously, is to secure funding to address the maintenance backlog that grows each year. The second challenge tests managers’ views of the future of their facilities: Are funds best spent on addressing critical short-term tasks…

What is the strongest predictor of health and happiness in old age? A growing body of research suggests the answer is good relationships. These are relationships that impart a sense of purpose and meaningful connection—with each other and with society. A recent McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) survey of adults aged 55 and older across 21…

The Goal Invest your energy strategically to improve productivity and results. Nano Tool Many of our productivity problems come about because we are operating on autopilot. We don’t think about what, when, or even why we are doing things; we just do them in the order in which the tasks come to us, or how…

A wave of residential projects rising across the country is meeting an insatiable demand, given the estimated shortage of 7.3 million homes that are accessible to low-income renters. Nationwide, 60% of all workers earn less than what’s required to afford a two-bedroom rental home, according to a June report by the National Low Income Housing…

The building design and construction industry has an embodied carbon problem. The built environment generates 42% of annual global CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Of those total emissions, building operations are responsible for 27% of annual global emissions, while embodied carbon emissions—the greenhouse gas emissions generated from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance,…

Many former technology executives, including the authors of this article, have left tech companies like Microsoft and Google to helm legacy industries ripe for modernization, including the buildings industry. The digital and physical worlds are increasingly overlapping, and we are now in a new era of how we interact with each other and the world…