ERES, Milan 2010 - Forecasting and Redefining workplaces

Bob gave two papers at the conference, chaired a session on Corporate Real Estate and commentated on a Rugby 7's tournament arranged for the edification of the delegates introducing a crowd from all over the world to the "Up and Under" and "a game of two halves".

ERES 2010 had around 450 delegates from all over the world and saw some 300 papers presented over the course of three days.  This makes it the largest real estate conference in the world by some margin. 

The first paper Bob presented, co-authored with Dr Qiulin Ke of Nottingham Trent University, was about redefining workplaces as collections of workspaces and building an appraisal model on that basis. Read the slides...

The second paper, entitled "Making forecasts more holistic", was co-authored with Dr Sotiris Tsolacos of PPR and addresses the problem of identifying market, rather than asset specific, risk and building a model that can overlay specific views of risk on existing forecasts to explore different scenarios.  Both papers will be published in Journals in due course once they have been through the peer review process but the slides are available here.  Read the slides....