Essays from innovators in real estate, design, and construction Edited by Kevin O’Donnell and Wolfgang Wagener
Essays from innovators in real estate, design, and construction
Edited by
Kevin O’Donnell and Wolfgang Wagener
Terry Hill Chris Luebkeman
ARUP
Mark Nicholls
BANK OF AMERICA
Zhu Yan
BEIJING MUNICIPAL OFFICE OF INFORMATIZATION
James J. Whalen
BOSTON PROPERTIES
Volker Hartkopf Vivian Loftness
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
A pivotal feature of today’s most innovative and valuable real estate is connectivity—the ability to facilitate intercommunication and interaction among buildings and digital infrastructures. We stand at the cusp of an exciting transformation of our physical environment as we weave a unified digital infrastructure into new and existing buildings, communities, and cities. Fully integrated communications become the foundation for as yet uninvented applications and services that transform the ways in which we create and use the places where we live, work, play, and learn.
“Pushing the boundaries of innovation is the only way forward. The book opens our eyes to the opportunities José-Carlos Arnal Juan-Alberto Belloch before us.”
CITY OF ZARAGOZA
Connected Real Estate
Frank Duffy
DEGW
Windsor Richards, Director, Macquarie Goodman Europe
Stanley C. Gale
GALE INTERNATIONAL
“In this book, Wagener and O’Donnell have assembled an exemplary set of thought and practice leaders.”
Martin Fischer, Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University
Bernhard Bürklin
HOCHTIEF
James R. Brogan A. Eugene Kohn
KOHN PEDERSEN FOX
Dennis Frenchman William J. Mitchell
MIT
Sing Tien Foo
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Mark Dixon
REGUS
Connected Real Estate contains viewpoints and advice from many of the real estate and construction industry’s most innovative players from around the world. Editors Kevin O’Donnell and Wolfgang Wagener examine global