The Operational Realities of Real Estate by Gary Middlehurst
“Satisfying the fundamental demands for real estate investment requires us to respond to the ever changing demands of the amorphic workplace environment. Intelligent Buildings certainly have a role to play in addressing these demands, however, we need to firstly address the functional boundary of the modern workplace, and then perhaps consider the workplace as an ecological system requiring multiple hosts. The recent pandemic experience for example is now fundamentally impacting future workplace considerations, and our buildings are adjusting to react to this critical requirement. ESG is also a new real estate dynamic we are seeking to adapt, the multiple stakeholder requirements, whether investors, landlords, developers or operators are presenting even more new challenges. This webinar will seek to highlight and address some of the current challenges we face as a real estate industry, but also impart some of the practical issues we must accept may remain as future challenges. We will also seek to stimulate debate particularly around the impact the real estate industry poses on the environment despite net zero considerations.”
Bio – Gary is Engineering Director for Brookfield Properties in the UK and is responsible for developing intelligent operations across a London real estate portfolio of over 4m Sq.ft of high-end commercial real estate. A Chartered Electrical Engineer with an engineering Doctorate, and MSc in Intelligent Buildings from the University of Reading, Gary specialises in the design, construction and the operation of intelligent buildings. Gary has over 35-yrs within the real estate industry, but is currently focussing in the area of building analytics and how such platforms can drive sustainable solutions to improve the operational efficiency of intelligent buildings.
