ECE Blog - Insights into the world of ECE
With our projects, we create spaces for living, experiencing and developing. On our blog, we report on current events, discuss topics and provide a look behind the scenes. We hope you enjoy reading it and look forward to exchanging ideas!
Sustainable & efficient: Construction with existing properties
In this blog post, we will discuss both the advantages and the challenges of converting existing properties and present current conversion examples from ECE Work & Live.
Lean management in the real estate industry
With lean management in the real estate industry, we create transparency, minimize waste and maximize customer value. Lean management, paired with agile working methods, has also become an integral part of ECE.
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Green Lease: Grüne Mietverträge für nachhaltige Immobilien
Ein wesentlicher Bestandteil für den nachhaltigen Betrieb eines Einkaufszentrums ist ein grüner Mietvertrag, der sogenannte Green Lease. Denn die Klimaziele lassen sich nur gemeinsam mit beiden Parteien – Eigentümer und Mieter – erreichen. Immobilien spielen auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität und eine entscheidende Rolle, da rund ein Drittel der CO2-Emissionen auf den Betrieb von Gebäuden entfallen.
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Residential of the future in European metropolises
The trend toward urbanization in Europe continues unabated. Already today, more than three quarters of people in the EU live in cities. Attractive and affordable housing is in particularly short supply in metropolitan regions. In Germany alone, a sharp increase in the population is currently being met by a drastic slump in new housing construction, especially in the cities.
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Future of Design: Computer-aided neighborhood planning
Digital transformation is increasingly becoming a game changer for the real estate industry as well. It is a long-term process with the goal to build an adaptable and dynamic company with a corresponding business model and to be sustainably competitive. While the real estate industry discovered digitalization quite late for itself, the ECE Group already recognized the potential several years ago and set out to lay the foundations for a powerful digital transformation. The foundation for this is a digital agenda with concrete fields of action and projects.
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Digitalization Real Estate Industry: Optimizations by ECE
Digitalization in the real estate industry is increasingly becoming a game changer. The potential of digitization is obvious: in the operation, construction and management of real estate as well as in the optimization of the company's own processes.
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Commercial Property Insurance: Help Against Expensive Premiums
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Office of the future: How will we work after the pandemic?
Daily work changed considerably at the start of the coronavirus pandemic for many people who work in offices. Most have set up a workspace at home, where they collaborate with their colleagues digitally. But how will the office look in the future? Will people continue to work from home after the pandemic, or will there be an increasingly hybrid form of working? Where will we work in the future, and what new office concepts will meet the flexible and modern needs of the working world?
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Affordable Luxury: How Ruby makes luxury hotels affordable
Casual, lean, and highly efficient – the Munich-based Ruby Group is breaking new ground in the hotel market with its “Lean Luxury” philosophy. With a streamlined structure and a focus on the essentials, the brand, founded in 2013, offers a modern, affordable take on the luxury hotel experience. The Otto family has held a 25 percent stake in Ruby since 2019. In an interview, founder and CEO Michael Struck reveals how Ruby is also growing during the pandemic, why ECE is a role model for him, and why his guests don’t care about golden faucets.
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Urban development: The future belongs to mixed-use
Diverse, compact, sustainable: The mixed-use city based on the classic European model is experiencing a true renaissance. The future belongs to clever mixed-use concepts. In our blog conversation, Klaus-Peter Hesse, Director City Development & Acquisition at ECE Work & Live, and Valentin Hadelich, Head of Department Creative Design - Urban Planning at ECE Group Services, discuss what makes a good mixed-use property, why resilience is important for a neighborhood, and what hidden potential lies dormant in our cities.