Sustainable development changes our thinking about buildings

I can see two main trends. The first, in an era when data is everything, will be greater efficiency in generating and collating the data for a building or office, thus leading to better use of the existing knowledge within an organisation. Integrated operating systems, such as Connected by Skanska, will become a must-have in the near future. Our clients know that collecting and analysing real-time information will help in adapting the building’s features to the needs and requirements of its users, enhancing their satisfaction levels and user-experience, and thus increasing the overall value of the property. But in the real estate sector we can’t even consider implementing new systems without having strong partners. That’s why in February, Microsoft and Skanska’s Polish division signed a strategic cooperation agreement that sets up a knowledge exchange for working on breakthrough innovations for the office building sector. The first few months of cooperation hav