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Barry Jessup

Social media

Take a design tip from reality TV

Global TV and social media is awash with reality TV shows, usually regional variations on a theme featuring exposed individuals put into a highly pressurised environment without the necessary tools to cope properly.

Office London

Reap the benefit of experience

In the UK, we are hopefully moving into the post-Covid-19 era, and it feels like businesses across all sectors are racing to implement the lessons learned from the pandemic.

Covid lab

Why we fail at problem-solving

One of the defining factors in determining the eventual impact that Covid-19 will have on the world will be the ability of countries and medtech to collaborate in designing and producing at scale an effective vaccine.

University graduates

Bridging the town-gown gap

The more time you spend in the real estate sector, the more you realise that most of us live in a cocoon, entirely unaware of the broader world around us. Our methods are outdated and some of the thinking is stale. We can be slow to recognise new trends, reluctant to change old habits and afraid to take on new ideas. Companies and individuals in the real estate sector who recognise progress and encourage innovation stand out like a sore thumb.

Construction

Fresh modular recruits welcome

The recent news that Goldman Sachs has invested £75m in East Midlands factory-built housing company Top Hat is a welcome shot in the arm for the struggling modular housing sector.

Office

Focus on wellbeing is here to stay

One of the buzzwords doing the rounds in real estate circles is ‘wellbeing’ – but there is precious little understanding of what this actually means and, most importantly, how we should be incorporating it into our developments.

Autonomous cars

Time to plan our journey to a post-car future

Much has been said about the major disruptive elements facing the real estate industry, namely increased government intervention, a changing retail environment and intervention from the world’s leading tech companies.

Retail technology

Tech disruptors set to overthrow property’s old order

Real estate doesn’t know what is coming. I have attended multiple ‘innovation’ or ‘disrupt’ property conferences or seminars over the past few months, most of which have had one thing in common: a chronic lack of willingness to innovate or disrupt.