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Designing the buildings of tomorrow around innovative uses and new interactions means using academic research. Because we believe in the strength of the collective and in the openness of ideas, we share here, with you, the research conducted by our experts.
Metropolization: medium-sized cities return to the forefront
As a corollary of the health crisis, teleworking has encouraged worker mobility and reshuffles the cards for tertiary real estate, with an effect: an increased polarization of medium-sized towns which tends to rebalance the relationship between metropolitan areas and the rest of the territory.
Advertorial in partnership with Business Immo.
The "smart & green" approach for more responsible buildings
In a context of ecological and digital transition of buildings, adopting a "smart & green" approach makes it possible to deploy smart building projects by enriching them with a real sense of environmental responsibility. An approach that seeks the right balance between digital and ecology for the benefit, always, of the user.
Chronicle published in the Journal du Net on 07/09/2021.
Reconciling building and occupant behavior: challenges and methods to support changes
In the building industry, actions aimed at achieving sustainable development goals are often focused on material, structural, technical and technological solutions. However, occupant behavior also plays an essential role in saving water and energy, reducing waste or improving the quality of sorting, for example. It is therefore important to make the link between the technique and the occupants, at all phases of a project, from design to operation-maintenance. It is about placing people at the heart of a building's energy and environmental performance.
The office, a place to collaborate
Tomorrow, with the deployment of teleworking, we will go to the office to socialize and collaborate in a living space. This forecast, which has been coming back regularly since the 1990s, will result in a major upheaval in the design of work environments: the area allocated to individual work will be drastically reduced in favor of collaborative spaces. But collaborative for whom and to do what?
Urban diversity is a fundamental tool for city success
Expert in all trades in the real estate value chain, the Kardham group has made urban diversity an essential element of the city of tomorrow and the best response to the economic, social and environmental issues facing the real estate sector.
Editorial in partnership with Business Immo published on 06/10/2021
The cost of flex-office: rhetoric and reality
By analyzing institutional discourses, internal documents of companies in the real estate sector, the press, stereotypes relating to Flex-office in the literature, it turns out that there is a very optimistic view of this workspace. The Flex-office is perceived as being innovative, a source of sharing and collective well-being while being economical. Our research challenges this idealistic vision by closely investigating the field.