Is Your Smart Building an Easy Target for Hackers?

IoT sensors can provide unprecedented amounts of useful data for building owners, but they also require extensive security.

Commercial Real Estate and the Big-Data Deluge

Awash in granular digital information, companies are diving headfirst into high-tech solutions so they can make more deeply informed business decisions.

How to Plan a Successful Construction Project

These 10 steps can help developers avoid headaches, delays, higher costs and legal complications.

Pioneering Sustainable Design for Data Centers

Data-informed decision-making is crucial to improving the efficiency and environmental performance of data centers.

CEO on Leadership: Laura Hines-Pierce

The leader of Houston-based Hines talks about leadership, the current challenges in the industry and becoming co-CEO of a global real estate investment, development and management firm.

Findings from the Development Approvals Index

The NAIOP Research Foundation released The Development Approvals Index: A New Tool to Evaluate Local Approvals Processes (the Index). The Index provides a systematic method to evaluate and compare

NAIOP's National Forums: The Power of Relationships

Five members of the association’s Deal and Investment Concepts Forum tell how members bond through relevant, in-depth conversations in a noncompetitive setting.

Examining Development Approvals Across North America: An Analysis of Site Plan and Building Permit Review Processes

The brief examines development approvals processes across 100 jurisdictions from 30 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario, and builds on The Development Approvals Index: A New Tool to