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1. The Smart Premium: how WiredScore’s certifications can boost asset value

   12 November 2025 10:38 am Comments Off on The Smart Premium: how WiredScore’s certifications can boost asset value

   Cushman and Wakefield recently published their Smart Premium report, a look into the impact of digital connectivity and smart technology on the rental market in London offices.

   Drawing on 10 years of leasing data combined with WiredScore’s certification records, the findings reveal some compelling insights:

   • A 4.1% average rental premium associated with WiredScore-certified buildings, demonstrating occupier demand for buildings prioritizing digital infrastructure.
   • A 7.3% average premium where buildings hold both WiredScore and SmartScore certifications, showing the combined impact of digital connectivity and smart technology investment.

   Office experiences are increasingly built on complex tech foundations as occupiers place greater value on experience, productivity, and wellbeing.

   Landlords who get this right are seeing tangible benefits.

2. Cyber, connectivity and AI adoption: what six months in the industrial sector has taught us

   13 October 2025 11:43 am Comments Off on Cyber, connectivity and AI adoption: what six months in the industrial sector has taught us

   Six months on from WiredScore’s launch into the industrial sector, the market context is continuing to shift. Investment volumes are climbing, occupier demand is resilient, and landlords are having to think differently about how their assets perform.

   Knight Frank’s latest research shows £1.4 billion of transactions in Q3, marking the third straight quarter of year-on-year improvement. Take-up for larger units hit 10 million sq ft in Q2, the highest since 2022, pushing H1 totals to just over 18 million sq ft. At the same time, vacancy has crept up to 7.7%, the highest level in 11 years, and average industrial rents have risen 4.8% year-on-year, with forecasters revising growth expectations for 2025 upwards.

   In other words, activity is strong, but competition is intensifying. As more space comes onto the market, digital performance, resilience and future-readiness are increasingly what set buildings apart. Through our certification work and conversations with clients, six clear lessons have emerged that show where the sector is moving, and where the gaps still lie.

3. Defining tomorrow’s built environment: British Land and WiredScore on the path to operational excellence

   22 September 2025 10:34 am Comments Off on Defining tomorrow’s built environment: British Land and WiredScore on the path to operational excellence

   Q&A: William Newton (WiredScore) & Johan Joubert (British Land)

    

   British Land has long set the bar for what it means to build and manage places with excellence. Their recent recognition with WiredScore’s Certificate of Excellence for Operational Excellence is a testament to that commitment. This portfolio-level award celebrates real estate investors and developers who consistently deliver best-in-class digital connectivity, resilient design, and smart building management across their assets. For British Land, it reflects a long-term vision that brings together cutting-edge digital infrastructure, sustainability strategies, and thoughtful placemaking across their campuses and buildings in London.

   To mark the achievement, we joined the British Land team at Broadgate Tower to sit down with William Newton, CEO of WiredScore, and Johan Joubert, Digital Placemaking Programme Manager at British Land. Together, we explored why digital excellence matters, how sustainability and operational performance intersect, and what the future of connected places looks like.

4. How to future-proof industrial real estate: 5 actions for Asset Managers

   18 August 2025 6:10 am Comments Off on How to future-proof industrial real estate: 5 actions for Asset Managers

   Smooth operations are the heart of every logistics facility, so it’s no wonder that industrial occupiers are becoming more risk-averse when selecting operational hubs. Resilient infrastructure is essential for industrial occupiers, as any delays or downtime can directly affect profitability. Across global markets, expectations are rising, and the data is clear: demand for robust, scalable, and resilient connectivity is accelerating.

   WiredScore recently partnered with Analytiqa to conduct global research into the importance of digital connectivity for industrial assets, surveying decision-makers across logistics, retail, e-commerce, and light industrial sectors. The findings are striking: 9 in 10 occupiers believe high-quality digital infrastructure is essential or very important to their operations. Yet 70% experienced delays or inefficiencies due to poor connectivity in the past year. More than half are willing to pay a premium of up to 10% for spaces that meet these digital standards.

   So how can asset owners respond and position themselves for success today? Here are five foundational actions you can take now to future-proof your industrial assets and deliver on tenant expectations.

5. How WiredScore’s updated certifications are enabling smarter, data-led decision-making

   14 July 2025 7:00 am Comments Off on How WiredScore’s updated certifications are enabling smarter, data-led decision-making

6. WiredScore in Action: Global Highlights from Q2 2025

   11 July 2025 1:27 pm Comments Off on WiredScore in Action: Global Highlights from Q2 2025

   From Hong Kong to Warsaw, Leeds to Cairo, Q2 saw WiredScore stepping onto global stages, joining conversations that are shaping the future of real estate. With a growing presence in new markets and deeper engagement with developers, occupiers and policymakers, WiredScore continues to demonstrate the value of digital connectivity and smart technology across the built environment.

   Whether launching new certifications, moderating industry-defining panels or connecting with top landlords and investors, our team has been at the heart of the conversations that matter most.

   Here’s a look at the trends, insights and outcomes that stood out.

7. Why digital connectivity is mission-critical in industrial real estate

   2 July 2025 1:00 am Comments Off on Why digital connectivity is mission-critical in industrial real estate

   The industrial and logistics sector is facing a digital reckoning; once viewed as a secondary concern, technology in industrial real estate has now become mission-critical. Recent research WiredScore conducted with Analytiqa reveals the reality: 90% of businesses say their operations depend on reliable digital connectivity, and 70% have experienced costly delays due to poor infrastructure in the past year.

8. WiredScore and SmartScore scorecard updates: Raising the bar for the buildings of tomorrow

   18 June 2025 8:41 am Comments Off on WiredScore and SmartScore scorecard updates: Raising the bar for the buildings of tomorrow

   We’re excited to announce significant updates to both our WiredScore and SmartScore certifications, coming later this year. These enhancements are designed to ensure your buildings remain competitive in a market fundamentally reshaped by occupier needs.

9. Real estate reborn

   11 June 2025 6:51 am Comments Off on Real estate reborn

   With uncertainty comes opportunity, and plenty of it in the case of the US. Against a backdrop of socio-political turbulence, the real estate industry has been battling continued headwinds with return to office numbers lagging expectations and restrictive monetary policies further increasing the pressure on landlords and developers.

   This hostile environment has seen the majority of investors take a more risk-averse, defensive stance, looking to reduce costs where possible rather than committing capex to anything other than what is mission critical in the short term.

10. KI-dentität in der Immobilienbranche

    17 April 2025 9:56 am Comments Off on KI-dentität in der Immobilienbranche

    „Schreib mir 350 Wörter über KI in der Immobilienbranche“…

     

    Ich hätte diesen Artikel in weniger als zehn Sekunden schreiben können – so schnell ist künstliche Intelligenz bei der Sprachverarbeitung. Aber hätte er sich dann nach mir angehört? Hätten Sie überhaupt angefangen, ihn zu lesen? Hat mein LLM-Kollege diesen Artikel vielleicht geschrieben und diesen ersten Absatz eingebaut, um das zu verbergen?

    Auch wenn sie sich noch in einem relativ frühen Stadium befindet, ist der kometenhafte Aufstieg der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) im Alltag verblüffend. KI erweitert die menschlichen Fähigkeiten in Bezug auf Geschwindigkeit und Kapazität bei alltäglichen Aufgaben – und hat bereits jetzt bemerkenswerte Auswirkungen auf unser Leben im Allgemeinen und auf die Immobilienbranche im Besonderen. Allein im vergangenen Monat war ich mehrfach in Situationen, die zeigen, wie wirkungsvoll KI sein kann:

    • Ein Property Manager nutzte KI, um Muster in Daten zu erkennen und ein genaueres Bild der Energieeffizienz eines Gebäudes zu erhalten.
    • Ein Architekt beschleunigte mithilfe von KI die frühen Phasen des Entwurfsprozesses.
    • Mein dreijähriger Sohn fragte mich, wer „Jet Jepiti“ ist (die ehrliche Antwort wäre gewesen: „Keine Ahnung“).

11. Real estate AI-dentity

    15 April 2025 11:07 am Comments Off on Real estate AI-dentity

    “Write me 350 words on AI in real estate”… 

     

    I could have written this article in fewer than 10 seconds, such is the speed of artificial intelligence for language processing. But would it have sounded like me? Would you have started reading it? Did my LLM-colleague actually write it and include this first paragraph to hide this?

    While still in its relative infancy, the meteoric rise in everyday use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quite startling. Enhancing the capabilities of human speed and capacity for everyday tasks, AI is already having a remarkable impact on our lives in general and on the real estate industry specifically.  In the last month alone, there are three examples I’ve personally been part of to show just how impactful AI can be:

    • A property manager used AI to spot patterns in data in order to get a more accurate picture of how energy-efficient a building is
    • An architect used AI to speed up the early stages of the design process
    • My three-year old son asked me who ‘Jet Jepiti’ is (the honest answer would have been “I have no idea”)

12. The Growing Importance of Power in Industrial Real Estate: Lessons from Heathrow’s Recent Outage

    26 March 2025 3:43 am Comments Off on The Growing Importance of Power in Industrial Real Estate: Lessons from Heathrow’s Recent Outage

    In recent weeks, the world was reminded of just how critical power is to the global economy. A major power outage at Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest transport hubs in the world, disrupted operations and created ripple effects across industries. While the situation at Heathrow was temporary, it was not the only power-outage story to have hit the headlines lately; Chile’s capital Santiago saw a similar situation less than a month before. Both instances have served to underscore an important reality: reliable, resilient, and sustainable power is no longer a luxury, it’s a fundamental requirement for industrial real estate.

    In the realm of industrial real estate, power plays a pivotal role in shaping everything from operational efficiency to tenant satisfaction and long-term viability. Power interruptions, even brief ones, have far-reaching consequences and highlight the requirement for assets to have a seamless transition onto back-up power supply. With the global economy becoming increasingly dependent on continuous supply chains, digital systems, and advanced manufacturing, any disruption to power is a risk to productivity, profitability, and reputation.