Blue Waves: The podcast for the real estate world

The operation of data centres are pretty one dimensional: they consume a huge volume of power and generate an equally large amount of heat. While our appetite for digitisation is expanding by leaps and bounds, so is the pressure on our environment. Phil Ratcliffe, Managing Director at Drees & Sommer UK, unpacks the various challenges in a fireside chat with Jagori Dhar, suggesting a road map to make data centres operationally better and viable for the long term from the ecological and digital standpoints.

He calls on the different stakeholder groups of developers, investors, operators and users to come together to explore holistic solutions that are beneficial across the board. From alternative uses of the excess heat for district heating to use of Cradle to Cradle design principle, modular and renewable technologies to build energy plus data centres that not only feed their own power needs but also plug the electricity requirements of our cities. 

Are you interested to find out more? You can connect with Phil Ratcliffe on LinkedIn.

For the last few years, tourism was one of the fastest-growing industries worldwide as travel was booming. Now the Hospitality sector needs to brace up and adapt to the evolving challenges and continually enhance to serve the increasing demands driven by technology and global consumer behaviours. How best can the industry equip itself? Drees & Sommer specialists, Gesa Rohwedder, Head of Hospitality Europe and Gisela Loidolt, Hospitality Consulting Manager Europe, provide deep insights in a candid chat with Jagori Dhar. They highlight the emerging trends, new mixed-use concepts stemming from changing modes of travel, work and living that are shaping the world of Hospitality.

Connect with Gesa Rohwedder and Gisela Loidolt on LinkedIn to benefit from their experience. You can find out more about our Hospitality expertise on our LinkedIn channel: Drees & Sommer Hospitality. 

Climate change as we know is on the top of everyone’s agenda: from governments to businesses, big or small, development sector, universities, and researchers. Around the world, there’s a growing concern on how to reduce its impact on our lives.

In a conversation with Jagori Dhar, Dr Olaf Kranz and Marco Abdallah unpack how the built environment sector, which by the way is one of the largest contributors of CO2 emissions, can make sustainable and technological interventions to help achieve the net-zero targets. They explain the need for interdisciplinary and cross-country collaborations like the German-British Embassy Talks on Smart and Sustainable cities can help make our cities smarter, greener, and ready for the future.

You can find out more about the initiative: https://www.dreso.com/de/en/de/unternehmen/events/details/german-british-embassy-talks-20-sustainable-smart-cities

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