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D isc over Y ForuM FinDinGs Frankfurt, london, and new York DeMoGrapHics, creativitY anD sustainaBilitY Frankfurt Discovery Forum Host: Microsoft Deutschland Royal Bank of Scotland Group Nigel Hoolachan, Manager, Portfolio Solutions, Relationship Management & Strategy, gave a presentation on portfolio strategy at Royal Bank of Scotland Group. It is essential to integrate demographics into portfolio planning, Hoolachan advised, because property costs are only about 15 percent of the potential overall cost of exiting a location. “No matter how we minimize our exit costs to align with lease events, they are still only a small percentage of the overall business costs to exit a location, if staff cannot be redeployed within the group,” he said. London Discovery Forum Host: The BBC Sponsors: Knight Frank and Locate in Birmingham Post-event Reception Host: HOK International Motorola Real Estate’s iWork Tim Tourville, Director, Real Estate, Development & Facility Management, EMEA/India presented on Motorola Real Estate’s iWork program and the company’s response to rapidly growing worker mobility. The iWork program aligns culture, programs, workspace and technology to enable global teamwork, collaboration and productivity. “Mobility has been a huge cultural change for us,” he said. “In the past, space was an entitlement.” Tourville’s office (and virtually all the offices at Basingstoke, where he is based) is available as meeting space when not being used as office space. “I’m not there most of the time,” he said. Real Estate at the BBC Chris Kane, MCR, Head of Workplace, gave a presentation on how he and his team are transforming the BBC’s 6 million-sq.-ft. property portfolio, which includes approximately 500 sites in the UK and 180 in other countries. “Eight thousand hours of content are produced each week,” Kane revealed. “We have to provide the working conditions to allow our people to be creative.” An excellent example of how Property is contributing to the new BBC is Pacific Quay, in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened in September 2007, “it’s our first production hub with end-to-end digital broadcasting capabilities,” Kane said. “It’s all open plan, with an integrated newsroom. We’ve done as much as we can to push the envelope here.” New York Discovery Forum Host: The Hearst Corporation Luncheon Sponsor: The Staubach Company Post-event Reception Host: The CoreNet Global New York City Chapter The Hearst Tower, New York City’s First Gold-LEED™ High Rise Hearst Corporation Vice President of Real Estate & Facility Planning, Brian Schwagerl, MCR, led a special presentation on the company’s newly built New York City headquarters. Joining him was Director of Operations, Lou Nowikas. In what essentially became a running five-year dialogue, Schwagerl assembled an integrated supply chain of partners, including Lord Norman Foster, Tishman Speyer, Turner Construction, Gensler, and Cushman & Wakefield. Even the New York Energy & Research Development Authority was part of the project, too, as borne out by the 22 percent increase in energy efficiency the new building has delivered to date. But the building also proves that sustainable practices go well beyond green buildings. By virtue of the open and flexible workplace design, talent retention, wellness and conservation components, a smart lease-exit strategy, facility operation and other elements, it extends across the supply chain and life cycle of the structure, adding vitality to the enterprise and its stakeholders. tH e le aDe r 73 MaY / j u n e 2008

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The Leader - May/June 2008

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