Property Week and Freeths brought together a panel of industry experts to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and their forecasts for the year ahead. They talked about the future of the office, the contrasting fortunes of the retail, hospitality and industrial sectors, and the climate crisis agenda.
COVID-19 shouldn’t obscure other health & safety risks By James Ridler Over the course of 2020, food and drink businesses around the world have had to adapt their production sites to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some large processors have invested millions of pounds in personal protective equipment (PPE), the installation of screens to prevent cross contamination and the implementation of social distancing on the shop floor.
The industry had a head start on the issue, with its existing focus on hygiene standards. However, the challenges presented by the coronavirus are constantly evolving, and yesterday’s solutions could pose larger problems further down the line.
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As part of
Property Week’s annual preview feature we asked some of the industry’s leading lights to list their personal and/or professional resolutions for the new year. This is what they said…
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Head of UK, CC Land
On a personal level, my 2021 resolution is to continue to serve our occupiers and move towards our aspiration of becoming a first-class custodian, giving our communities the environment to attract best in class talent. Furthermore, to help our mixed-use developments at Whiteley’s and Nine Elms take shape and see further progress in 2021.
Lynda Shillaw
Scott Grant, CEO, Soluis Group
Ollie Kilvert, founder, The 360 View
Darren Williamson, national head of real estate, Freeths
Simon Creasey, contributing editor/features,
Property Week (chair)
Simon Creasey: AR/VR technologies and virtual walkthroughs have been around for a long time, but haven’t really gained a great deal of traction in the property industry until fairly recently. Have you seen more people enquiring about using your products and services as a result of the pandemic?
Scott Grant: There has definitely been an increase and I’d say more of an openness. I think that the noticeable thing from our point of view is the application of VR was always more heavily weighted towards taking people somewhere to do VR in some form or other, whereas it’s definitely shifted to “how do we push those experiences out and how do we try and take traditional forms of visualisation and blend it with this experiential future that starts to match up to the world’s expectations?