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If Your People Leave, It’s Your Fault
The numbers are stark; Among Millennials, 43 per cent envision leaving their jobs within two years, and only 28 per cent are looking to stay beyond five years; More than three million people quit their jobs this year, up 35 per cent over the last five years; 51 per cent of people polled say they are considering leaving their existing position. This week’s Blog from noted business advisor Mark Breslin takes a deep dive into the numbers and points out the ways you may be losing your valuable talent, as well as the ways you can best retain it.
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How Can Designers and Architects Learn to Adapt and Continue to Collaborate in the Virtual World?
Designers and architects spend a large portion of our day working with each other and clients, collaborating on projects. No matter what phase of a project, they strive to achieve a collective goal through by building trust, common bonds, and productive relationships; and the outbreak of COVID-19 has not deterred them from this goal. This week’s Blog by Number TEN’s Genevieve Bergman takes a closer look at a few helpful tools that make it easier to continue to collaborating in a creative way remotely.
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HS2’s Interchange Station is the First Station in the World to Get Top Award for Environmentally-Friendly Design
The UK’s new High Speed 2 (HS2) station, to be built in Solihull and near the National Exhibition Centre in the West Midlands, has become the first railway station globally to achieve the BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification – a measure of sustainability for new and refurbished buildings – putting it in the top 1 per cent of buildings in the UK for eco-friendly credentials. This landmark award recognises the station’s eco-friendly features, including maximising natural daylight and ventilation, a station roof design which can capture and reuse rainwater, and features to enable net zero carbon emissions from day-to-day energy consumption. BREEAM…
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COVID-19 is Changing Design Paradigms
While a post-COVID world may be many months or even years away, it’s time now for designers and their clients to start considering the ways that the various corners of our lives will be transformed by this outbreak. This week’s Blog examines some of the new considerations we will carry with us into post-pandemic design and how we can prepare for a new normal.
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Strong Takeaways on Canada’s Bankruptcy Landscape From the head of Fasken’s insolvency-restructuring practice
As U.S. companies struggle to survive through the pandemic, their counterparts in Canada are facing similar challenges. Given the huge overlap and dependency on the two neighbouring economies, this might be a good moment to hear from insolvency advisers at leading Canadian law firm Fasken. This week’s Blog hears from Stuard Brotman, the head of Fasken’s insolvency-restructuring practice, to get his thoughts on the impact of COVID-19.
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Why Autonomous Drones are Now Crucial to Business Continuity
More and more, the construction industry around the word is turning to autonomous drones and other remote autonomous and robotic solutions to help ensure business continuity during this current time of crisis. This week’s Blog takes examines how the use of an automated UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) can benefit your company’s work site, particularly as your workers may be kept at home during the pandemic.
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Six Ways That a Strong Brand Identity Will Drive Sales for Your Construction Business
Competition within the construction industry is fierce, which means that growing your construction business requires a strong marketing and branding strategy. This week’s Blog takes a look at six ways that strong brand identity will help drive sales for your construction business.
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Adversity Sharpens the Edge
With the unprecedented spread of COVID-19, our world and industry are confronting major adversity. But adversity always has a purpose and, on the back end of any major problem, issue, setback, or challenge, there is always an opportunity for greater perspective and progress. This week’s Blog from noted business advisor Mark Breslin speaks on the crisis we currently face and provides some perspective on what’s waiting for us on the other side.
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The Five Best Tech Opportunities for Construction Companies
Traditionally, construction has been considered one of the slowest industries to adopt technology, whether that is because of the culture of construction or due to the razor thin margins where first funding priorities are typically set aside for equipment and personnel. This may be changing, however, as a new generation of construction professionals begin to disrupt how the industry functions. This week’s Blog examines five technology opportunities that construction companies should have on their radar.
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This Too Shall Pass What Will Life Be Like on the Other Side of COVID-19?
As the COVID-19 pandemic crisis continues to unfold and evolve, it is natural to focus on the more complex and immediate issues that are impacting everyday life. But a group of Stikeman Elliott partners recently took a step back from the daily challenges arising from this new normal to reflect on how COVID-19 might change the world over the longer term, offering a different perspective that focuses on the rapidly developing social and economic trends that are destined to shape our reality over the coming decades.
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