Tech Cities 1.0 top 25. Washington, DC has emerged as the promising tech city center after San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s inaugural “Tech Cities 1.0” national report launched today.
A dominating hub for life sciences and government, Washington, DC also serves as a significant outpost for tech companies seeking proximity to policymakers as well as for burgeoning cyber-security investment.
The top 25 tech cities were determined by analyzing the concentration of factors such as talent, capital, and growth opportunity – the key ingredients that comprise a tech stew. The heartiest of these tech epicenters are: 1. San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley); 2. San Francisco, CA; 3. Washington, DC; 4. Boston/Cambridge, MA; and 5. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC.
Cushman & Wakefield created the “Tech Cities 1.0” report to provide greater insight for its clients and industry stakeholders into existing and emerging tech centers that are driving much of today’s U.S. economy.
Ken McCarthy, Cushman & Wakefield’s New York-based Principal Economist and Applied Research Lead for the U.S., states that “tech is in everything” and that people would be left behind if they did not adopt technology and change with that technology.
“Basically every company today is a tech company in one way or another. We’re all using it, we’re using various aspects of tech companies to do various things,” Mr. McCarthy elaborated. “Whether it’s Salesforce as customer relationship management, or Workday for HR, and various other database programs, the old way of doing business just doesn’t work anymore.”
Report co-author and Regional Director, Northwest U.S. Research at Cushman & Wakefield, in San Francisco, Robert Sammons, said that while it was not surprising to see San Jose (Silicon Valley) and San Francisco continue to dominate, that mass-transit issues and escalating housing costs in those areas have fanned a tech spillover into secondary markets such as Austin (no. 7), Denver (no. 8), San Diego (no. 9), and Salt Lake City (no. 24).
Remarking on Seattle’s number six ranking, Mr. Sammons said, “It’s certainly one of the biggest, if not the biggest competitor to Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Seattle is an interesting case because it was driven by Microsoft early on, which endures, and now Amazon is huge in the downtown area and it continues to be significant.”
He pointed to tech titan Google, which continues to spread its wings outside of Silicon Valley, for opening operations in Seattle to entice the existing talent pool.
Mr. Sammons cited Seattle’s cost-of-living as a lingering issue, somewhat mitigated by a recent uptick in residential development that’s outpacing San Francisco’s, as well as mass transit challenges.
“Seattle has played catchup over the past few years but with housing creation now outpacing that of the Bay Area and with a huge $54 billion transportation initiative that recently passed at the ballot box, it will likely allow it to compete much more aggressively with those markets at the very top of the list.”
To many startup and tech community workers around the world, it may be surprising to see New York (no. 15) and Los Angeles (no. 18) so far down the list.
“In the case of New York, when we started to see a growth in tech employment here about four or five years ago, one of the big issues for the companies coming to New York, particularly from San Francisco or Silicon Valley, was a lack of the skilled labor force they needed, particularly engineers,” Mr. McCarthy said.
“Now what we’re seeing in response to the growth in the TAMI sector has been an increase in investment by local universities in engineering and tech schools. All the local universities recognizing the need have begun to invest in these areas of education, and as a result you’re getting more of a tech-savvy, talented workforce. These things tend to feed on themselves, and I would expect that if we did this ranking three or four years from now, it might look a little different for New York.”
In terms of Los Angeles, both Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Sammons noted its exceptionally diverse economy.
“Media is important, and you can’t lose sight of the fact that historically it’s also been an important manufacturing and industrial center,” Mr. McCarthy said, “There are myriad industries centered in LA, which has a good talent pool, and I would expect that also will come into play as we start to see these things evolve.”
“Los Angeles is a market that’s just enormous, it’s sprawling. And tech, even though it gets a lot of press for LA and Southern California, kind of gets lost in the mix because of media and entertainment. With Snap and other tech companies centered along “Silicon Beach” and with media and entertainment becoming even more tech-oriented, LA has nowhere to go but up,” Mr. Sammons said.
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Concrete definition of a Smart Building to be placed at the heart of EU policymaking as negotiations heat up. The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) today puts the finishing touches on its comprehensive work on smart buildings, providing a working definition of a ‘smart building’ and making detailed policy recommendations to encourage their growth. The current negotiations on the Clean Energy for All Europeans package are a final opportunity to shape the European building stock of 2030.
This latest intervention comes at a crucial point in support of those pushing for more ambitious policy and a genuinely smart European building stock of the 2030s.
BPIE has further explored the concept of smart buildings with one question in mind: What is a smart building? Measuring how smart a building is, depends on the capacity of its functions and the degree to which different components interact and complement each other. BPIE considered all these aspects and has come forward with a concrete definition of a smart building, placing energy efficiency at its heart.
For smart buildings to become a success story, multiple benefits must be recognised on an equal footing. Buildings have the potential to be at the forefront of providing flexibility for the energy system, including through energy production, control, storage and demand response, as well as providing a means to integrate electric vehicles. Just as importantly, smart buildings must enable a healthy and comfortable living and working environment for their occupants. But analysis has shown that more must be done in this area.
BPIE is clear that both market and legislative frameworks need to allow buildings to connect to and interact with the energy system. But this is not always the case across Europe. In fact, the legislative framework is one of the biggest barriers to the widespread penetration of smart buildings. And current policy discussions lack ambition to encourage buildings to play their role as micro energy-hubs.
The BPIE policy paper recommends ways that the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, the Energy Efficiency Directive, the Renewable Energy Directive and the Electricity Directive should be strengthened to ensure buildings can take up a leading role in the energy transition, at the same time as ensuring high building performance, dynamic operability between components of a building and its occupants and responsiveness of buildings to interact with the energy system around them. These components must be embedded in the criteria for judging whether a building truly is a Smart Building.
BPIE definition of a smart building (2017)
A smart building is highly energy efficient and covers its very low energy demand to a large extent by on-site or district-system-driven renewable energy sources.
A smart building (i) stabilises and drives a faster decarbonisation of the energy system through energy storage and demand-side flexibility;
(ii) empowers its users and occupants with control over the energy flows;
(iii) recognises and reacts to users’ and occupants’ needs in terms of comfort, health, indoor air quality, safety as well as operational requirements.
– BPIE study on “Is Europe ready for the smart buildings revolution?” (2017) finds that that no Member State is fully prepared to take advantage of the benefits that smart building technologies will entail.
– BPIE study on “Smart buildings in a decarbonised energy system” (2016), sets out 10 principles making the case for buildings to be at the core of a decarbonised energy system, producing, storing and supplying energy, making the energy system more flexible, resilient and efficient.
About BPIE
The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) is a European not-for-profit think-tank with a focus on independent analysis and knowledge dissemination, supporting evidence-based policy making in the field of energy performance in buildings. It delivers policy analysis, policy advice and implementation support.
Great Place to Work: cultura e fiducia nell’ambiente di lavoro. Great Place to Work Institute è una società internazionale di consulenza manageriale specializzata nello studio dell’ambiente organizzativo e nella consulenza alle aziende per il miglioramento dei loro ambienti di lavoro.
Fondata a San Francisco (USA) nel 1991 dal giornalista e scrittore Robert Levering, Great Place to Work® Institute è oggi presente in 49 Paesi nel mondo.
Great Place to Work® Italia è presente in Italia dal 2001 e l’anno successivo viene pubblicata la prima classifica delle migliori aziende per cui lavorare in Italia.
Great Place to Work® Italia è guidata da Alessandro Zollo.
Great Place to Work® Institute analizza da più di vent’anni la qualità degli ambienti organizzativi, conducendo in 49 Paesi del mondo una ricerca che, attraverso un questionario distribuito all’interno delle aziende, chiede direttamente ai dipendenti di valutare il grado di fiducia nella propria azienda e quanto la ritengano un “great place to work”.
Great Place to Work® Institute si occupa di Analisi e Ricerche necessarie per individuare le caratteristiche degli ambienti di lavoro eccellenti, individuare le Best Practice in tutto il mondo, e di supportare le organizzazioni, attraverso interventi consulenziali ad hoc, formazione e pianificazione di azioni di miglioramento, in un percorso di cambiamento culturale.
La Classifica “Best Companies to Work for”
Oggi Great Place to Work® Institute è oggi partner di numerose aziende del mondo, innovative e di successo. Grazie alla collaborazione con queste aziende, l’Istituto realizza in tutto il mondo 46 classifiche delle migliori aziende per cui lavorare. Ogni anno Great Place to Work® collabora mediamente con oltre 7.200 organizzazioni, intervistando circa 5 milioni di dipendenti annualmente.
Le classifiche, oltre ad essere nazionali, vengono realizzate su base europea (Best Workplaces in Europe) e mondiale (World’s Best Multinational Workplaces).
Oggi la lista Best Workplaces è ormai diventata un appuntamento annuale molto atteso, accreditandosi quale strumento di riferimento per manager in cerca di nuove opportunità, neolaureati che si approcciano al mondo del lavoro ed head hunters a caccia di talenti.
E’ inoltre in grado di influenzare la percezione delle aziende all’interno e all’esterno, con ricadute sul business stesso.
La storia
Nel 1981 un editore di New York chiese a due giornalisti finanziari, Robert Levering e Milton Moskowitz, di scrivere un libro dal titolo “The 100 Best Companies to Work for in USA”.
Nonostante le difficoltà e gli scetticismi rispetto ad un progetto considerato troppo ambizioso, i due giornalisti intrapresero con spirito pioneristico un percorso che si rivelò infine un’esperienza affascinante e di grande valore.
Levering e Moskovitz compresero, in anticipo sui tempi, che l’elemento chiave degli ambienti di lavoro “eccellenti” non era costituito da un insieme di benefit, programmi e politiche per i dipendenti, ma da relazioni di qualità basate su fiducia, orgoglio e spirito di squadra. Fu chiaro fin da subito che si trattava di veri e propri fattori chiave che contribuivano a migliorare le performance aziendali dell’organizzazione.
Il ruolo della fiducia nell’ambiente di lavoro divenne il tema centrale non solo di quel primo pionieristico libro del 1984, ma anche di un secondo libro pubblicato nel 1988 con il titolo “A Great Place to Work: What makes some employers so good – and most so bad”.
Queste idee sono ancora oggi il nucleo su cui si fonda Great Place to Work® Institute.
Gradualmente, i modelli e la metodologia dell’istituto vennero accreditati a livello internazionale quali sistemi privilegiati per la misurazione di quello che oggi viene definito “ambiente di lavoro eccellente”. Nel 1997, Fortune (negli USA) e Exame (in Brasile) collaborarono con il settore di ricerca dell’istituto ed elaborarono la prima classifica delle 100 Best Companies to Work For, dedicata agli ambienti di lavoro. Progressivamente, Great Place to Work® aprì uffici in 49 Paesi nel mondo e l’apertura di nuove sedi è ancora in crescita costante.
BPIE: buildings as energy-hubs can strengthen the energy system. Buildings could play a major role in supporting the low carbon development of other sectors, says BPIE in its latest paper. 10 principles are making the case for buildings to be at the core of a decarbonised energy system, producing, storing and supplying energy, making the energy system more flexible, resilient and efficient.
As micro energy-hubs, highly efficient buildings can balance the grid through proactive energy demand management and play a leading role in transforming the EU energy market, shifting from centralised, fossil-fuel-based systems towards a decentralised, renewable, interconnected and variable system.
There are many benefits to fast-tracking the concept of micro energy-hubs: from empowering users to control their own renewable energy production and consumption; to cutting energy bills and facilitating the surge of renewable energy as well as electrical vehicles, and even reinforcing energy security.
BPIE identifies 10 principles for buildings to become micro energy-hubs which should be the reference when re-designing our energy system. They are all important separately, but more impactful once considered together. Maximising the buildings’ energy efficiency level, however is the first priority in order to successfully apply the other principles.
Once this first principle is implemented, the other principles to transform the building sector should be applied, such asrenewable energy integration, incorporating demand response, stimulating energy storage capacity, encouraging uptake of electric vehicles, decarbonising heating & cooling energy and more.
Developing an enabling and supportive policy framework is a key success factor. The ongoing reviews of building-related legislation should reflect the concept and revised legislative instruments should encompass the full scope of micro energy-hubs Oliver Rapf, BPIE’s Executive Director, adds that “an all-encompassing vision on buildings as micro energy-hubs would have a bearing on all five dimensions of the Energy Union – from supporting security of supply to decarbonising the economy. In light of the legislative packages under way in 2016, serious thought should be given to including this concept”.
About BPIE
The Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) is a European not-for-profit think-tank with a focus on independent analysis and knowledge dissemination, supporting evidence-based policy making in the field of energy performance in buildings. It delivers policy analysis, policy advice and implementation support.
ZAir di Zucchetti Facility: qualità dell’aria migliora salute degli addetti. La soluzione di Zucchetti Facility consente di raccogliere, analizzare e monitorare un’ampia gamma di parametri ambientali, tutelando in ogni momento la salute e la sicurezza dei lavoratori.
Secondo Istat, 31 milioni è il numero delle giornate lavorative del 2015 perse per colpa di un ambiente malsano, cui contribuiscono valori inadeguati di parametri come temperatura, qualità dell’aria, umidità e ventilazione.
La normativa sulla tutela della salute e sicurezza dei lavoratori, il Decreto legislativo 81/2008, classifica il microclima dell’ambiente di lavoro tra gli agenti fisici che devono essere compresi nella valutazione dei rischi.
È dunque fondamentale monitorare, regolare e pianificare le corrette condizioni fisico-ambientali sul luogo di lavoro, per favorire il benessere del lavoratore e non creare sensazioni di disagio che possono anche arrivare a comprometterne la sicurezza e la salute. (altro…)
Cosentino Innovation Academy: Introduzione al BIM, Building Information Modeling. La presentazione, a cura dell’ arch. Eleonora Fontana, ha approfondito i seguenti temi:
1 – IL DNA E LA STORIA DEI SAPERI
– Dall’industria aerospaziale a quella delle costruzioni
Tra la fine del 1970 e l’inizio del 1980, i sistemi CAD aumentarono le loro potenzialità di sviluppo tanto che le industrie aerospaziali e manifatturiere decisero di implementare questo sistema attraverso una collaborazione fattiva con le software house.
Questi software progettati per l’industria aerospaziali e manifatturiera consentivano innanzitutto la progettazione e verifica di geometrie complesse, in seguito permisero di eseguire delle simulazioni meccaniche e tecniche impensabili con i precedenti processi ricorsivi di prototipazione\verifica\riprogettazione\nuovo prototipo abbassando drasticamente i costi e contraendo i tempi
Tali strumenti e principi furono adottati nell’ambito del settore delle costruzioni: comparvero così sul mercato software di disegno 2D e di modellazione 3D per l’edilizia.
MADE Expo 2017: innovazione e progetto. La rigenerazione urbana sarà il tema conduttore della fiera MADE expo, che torna a Fiera Milano Rho dall’8 all’11 marzo 2017.
La grande scommessa dei prossimi anni sarà quella di realizzare un piano di rigenerazione urbana che punti ad arrestare il consumo di suolo e a trasformare zone del nostro Paese già urbanizzate in aree di aggregazione, servizi e parchi urbani. Una sfida impegnativa e affascinante al tempo stesso lanciata dall’architetto Stefano Boeri, dallo scrittore John Foot e dall’assessore Cristina Tajani in occasione della tavola rotonda che ha aperto la conferenza stampa di presentazione di MADE expo 2017.
Trend degli investimenti alberghieri. Performance e scenari. Presentazione del rapporto Hotels & Chains 2017.
È stata presentata a Milano, nell’ambito del Master in Economia del Turismo presso l’Università Bocconi, la quinta edizione del rapporto Hotels & Chains 2017 realizzato da Horwath HTL, STR e, per la seconda volta, in collaborazione con Associazione Italiana Confindustria Alberghi.
L’evento ha riscosso notevole successo ed ha visto un’ampia partecipazione da parte degli imprenditori del settore e del sistema bancario, dimostrando il crescente interesse nei confronti dei cambiamenti in atto nel mercato alberghiero.
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