One size (property) solutions no longer work

We now need elastic buildings

Landlords and Bosses face the same dilemmas

It is all about choice and flexibility

Existing playbooks are obsolete

Commercial property faces huge disruption

CRE Advisor

Leading an estates, facilities, property, or workplace team today is a very demanding role, one has to face up to the unique and unprecedented challenges of a rapidly changing world of work and the workplace (property).

Chris Kane and Associates offer clients an unusual blend of people and property skills coupled with genuine hands-on practical experience . This is delivered through out unique CRES proposition.

Author & Speaker

As the author of Where is my Office and a variety of other publications and blogs Chris provides his unique perspective on a rapidly changing world of work, the workforces and workplaces.

Chris Kane

Non Executive Director

  • Over 25 years experience as a non executive Board Member across a range of sectors has equipped Chris with the ability to apply a strategic perspective to facilities, property and construction issues.
  • Deep experience in workplace strategy, place making and supply chain optimisation.
  • Extensive knowledge of the property industry as both a client and a provider and across public and private sectors.
  • Long term advocate for the need to better understand the relationship between people and place.

Business and Workplace – lots to do!

What links, if any, exist between Business and the UK’s Property/Workplace sector? Last week, I had the opportunity to discuss this with James Max, broadcaster and media commentator, who, like me, started life as a chartered surveyor. Given his early career at DTZ,...

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Television Centre – Cranewatch

This was a red letter week for the Television Centre (TVC) project as the Cranes have arrived! Once these strange projections into the skyline arrive one can be sure that something big is underway and this week marks the start of TVC's return to centre stage.  As I...

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Walking the halls of a Smart Place

Last Thursday I found myself chatting to Gen Y students at University College Dublin's Michael Smurfit  Business school located in the hallowed halls of a building steeped in the history of educating - a truly smart place. Walking around the Blackrock campus of UCD's...

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