- New Cleaning and Facility Management market study available
Latin America. Latin Market Research, with the support of the digital portal Gerencia de Edificios and CleanTec Show Americas, publish for the first time the MARKET STUDY: CLEANING AND FACILITY MANAGEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA 2022-2023. It is noteworthy that Latin Press has been producing these reports in recent years, which were conceived as an...
- Pactia, wins the LATAM TECNOEDIFICIOS SHOW AWARD 2022
Latin America. During the TecnoEdificios congress held in recent days (November 22 and 23), the company with a high trajectory that would exercise business competitiveness projects in Latin America 2022 was announced, a proposal that emerged from the Academic Committee in order to recognize those companies that generate added value in terms of...
- TecnoEdificios and CleanTec 2022 culminated with positive results
Latin America. More than 20 brands with products and solutions for the professional cleaning and facility management industries were present at the expo held on November 22 and 23, which had the Experience Forum, a free space for technical-commercial conferences and live demonstration, where attendees knew first-hand the novelties presented by...
- Current analysis on the office market in Mexico City
Mexico. An evident recovery has been showing the corporate market in Mexico City to reach its highest level in the last two years, with 171 thousand 894 m², which means good news after more than 24 months of instability and negative figures.
- Investments in cloud services will increase by 2023
Latin America. A recent study conducted by Axity, showed that due to the pandemic companies of all types and sizes detected a need to implement or increase cloud solutions.
- IFMA joins other construction industry organizations to lead global decarbonization efforts
International. ASHRAE (Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Guild Association) issued a statement signed by 26 of the world's leading construction industry organizations, including the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA), to government representatives attending the United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP...
- Inflation puts the real estate market in check
Latin America. The Facility Management market, specifically, throughout 2021, presented a mixed behavior, where absorptions improved in general, since they registered less negative numbers compared to 2020.
- Keys to an adequate organizational culture in business
Latin America. Growing is one of the most important objectives for companies, so each one looks for the most appropriate way to achieve it: some invest capital, create new products, look for new markets, establish different alliances, among others.
- Trajectory and competitiveness of Facility Management, a recognition for contributing to sustainability
Latin America. For the first time within the framework of the TecnoEdificios congress, the trajectory and competitiveness of companies dedicated to facility management and professionals in the areas of cleaning and maintenance will be rewarded.
- Chile and Argentina lead the investment confidence of real estate markets in LATAM
Latin America. Three real estate markets show very marked differences, not only because Argentina, Colombia and Chile have different characteristics and macroeconomic effects that can affect one country more rigorously or another. In addition to the political and social differences that are determinants in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). However,...
- Technology improves facilities management
Latin America. In Latin America, some proptech solutions have been implemented to automate the demands of facilities with the help of sensors and software that collect information in real time and generate immediate notifications of occurrences.
- Networks below the business innovation curve would impact competitiveness
International. According to Moore's Law, the price performance of computing power and storage doubles every 18 to 24 months. This, then, could mean that network innovation cycles can be as far apart as a decade. The long duration that separates the cycles puts at risk the innovation capacity of the entire organization because prices are subject...
- The cities of Colombia with the highest square meter
Colombia. According to a study presented by Asobancaria, an entity that brings together the most important financial institutions in the country, and Habi, a digital platform for buying and selling used housing; Bogotá and Medellín have the highest prices per square meter in the country.
- Building operation and construction cover almost 40% of CO2 emissions worldwide
Latin America. Making cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is one of the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations. A key task, considering that cities account for around 70% of global carbon emissions and more than 60% of resource use.
- Zoom Survey Reveals Executive Preferences for Flexible Working
International. Zoom Video Communications, in partnership with Fortune, conducted a Morning Consult survey to examine leaders' feelings about hybrid work and its overall impact on employee happiness, company culture and business goals.
- Production of construction inputs increases in Colombia
Colombia. The construction sector continues to be very important in the generation of employment and contribution to the GDP of this country, which represents good news for the economic recovery as it is a solid industry despite the context of volatility that exists globally.
- Companies seek to increase the adaptability of offices for hybrid work
International. With the economic reactivation and the return to face-to-face, many of the employees still do not return to the workspaces they used to, many continue from teleworking fulfilling their functions. Therefore, and in order to go back and at the same time have a hybrid model, companies seek and implement intelligent ways to make...
- Bogotá, the second market in projected m2 of premium offices in South America
Colombia. Bogota is at the top of the best premium office markets in South America. This is evidenced by the Market Beat of Cushman & Wakefield that evaluates how it closed the second half of 2021 and the prospects it will have for 2022. The capital of the country is No. 2 in the region in the projected m2 with almost 800,000 m2, as well as...
- Apply your company to the LATAM TECNOEDIFICIOS SHOW AWARD 2022
Latin America. Within the framework of the TecnoEdificios Congress, for the first time, the trajectory and competitiveness of companies dedicated to Facility Management services will be rewarded. It should be noted that competitiveness can be evaluated from the bets of projects that promote sustainability. In turn, the award seeks to evaluate the...
- Colombia leads sustainable construction
Colombia. Five years after the arrival of the EDGE Certification in Colombia, there has been a growing interest of entrepreneurs in the construction sector to massify sustainable construction practices in Colombia, generating positive impacts in terms of savings of water, energy, and energy embedded in construction materials, which allows...
- Employee errors, one of the main causes of cyberattacks on organizations
Latin America. Digitization and remote work have exponentially increased the risk due to the use of insecure connections, the use of personal devices and the disappearance of the perimeter. Now cyberattacks are increasingly aggressive, numerous, sophisticated, specific and targeted at employees, which is causing greater financial, social or...
- Consumers link climate change to increased value of energy service
Latin America. 86% of people believe that climate change will have a major impact on increasing the value of energy bills. Likewise, 9 out of 10 consider that each individual should assume a more relevant role in the face of climate change, as announced by a recent study by Schneider Electric.
- Reasons for unjustified absenteeism in face-to-face work
Colombia. Colombian workers increasingly allow themselves to be infected by unjustified absenteeism and inadvertently affect the activities of any company. For this reason, many companies have begun to take action on the matter and have begun to look for useful technological aids to monitor in real time the actions of their workers.