Let me introduce your new development partner: Nature

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As nature increasingly influences design and construction, businesses can leverage green policies to steer real estate development, writes AECOM's Robert Spencer

There's a new stakeholder in the development of business real estate. it Is demanding, growing in influence and offers little room for negotiation. It is nature itself. In big corporations, nature...

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