How MIT and JLL explore the future of the built environment

The one constant for the real estate industry throughout history is change. The partnership between JLL and MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab explores the future of the built environment by looking at the products, processes and technologies continually disrupting the real estate sector. Projects in MIT’s lab include the creation of a geometric, geospatial relational database of Manhattan, Real Estate Innovation Life Cycle, and the autonomous future of work in real estate. In this Ambitions Magazine article, Dr. Chegut discusses some of the themes that the lab works with lab partner JLL on.

Exploring the technologies impacting buildings and cities today. There is a massive shift in financial, physical and human approaches to data gathering and real estate execution over the last decade.