2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > Single Topic Coverage by a Team > Mid Atlantic

Awarded to

Trey Barrineau, Managing Editor
Aaron Ahlburn, Contributor

Entry details

Technology Disrupts Commercial Real Estate

Issue or publication date: 2019
Publication name: Development magazine
Publishing company: NAIOP
Website home page: https://www.naiop.org/Magazine

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

Development magazine is a quarterly publication of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. Available in print, online, digital and app formats, the magazine is circulated to more than 19,000 members and subscribers in the United States and Canada.

Through articles and columns, the magazine addresses products and issues impacting commercial real estate development, both now and in the future. Office, industrial, retail and mixed-used projects are featured. Topics include: leadership and management; regulatory and government affairs; the capital markets; investment sales; supply, demand and rents relating to real estate products; demographics, technology and consumer behavior; transportation and mobility; sustainability; leasing and marketing; and more.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

From construction to leasing, rapid technological change is shaking up commercial real estate. During 2019, Development magazine dedicated a lot of column inches to this important topic to help real estate professionals navigate a rapidly evolving field.

Managing editor Trey Barrineau wrote a heavily researched cover story for the Summer issue on the deluge of "big data" engulfing companies in the industry and how they're coping with it.

Barrineau also produced three other diverse, deeply reported stories about the industry's adoption of technological change. He toured an innovative facility for building products and sciences in Falls Church, Virginia, as well as a 1990s office building in Washington, D.C., that used cutting-edge sensor-based technology to transform into a modern, amenity-filled workplace. He also wrote a fact-filled article about why the construction industry has been a straggler when it comes to embracing technology.

Finally, the magazine's Winter cover story provided a deep, fact-filled dive by contributor Aaron Ahlburn into the many ways that technological change is affecting supply chains and transportation networks -- and consequently, the development of logistics facilities.

Taken together, these five pieces provide actionable information to help real estate professionals across all asset classes do their jobs better, both today and in the future.

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