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Digital and physical meet in the mixed-reality world with the Microsoft HoloLens and Trimble Application. Source: Microsoft and Trimble.

their new headquarters in the Canary Wharf area of London. She new and innovative ways to transform the work of placemaking.
is working with the outsourced project managers who are the Gone are the days when facility management was considered
same technologists who build Frank Gehry’s buildings and meets a job for low-level technicians or administrative functions. In
with them first to learn how to use their tool for connecting all the new placemaking paradigm, the job of using these inno-
stakeholders vative technologies to create and maintain the building during
(e.g., architects, its life-cycle is strategic for the business. It enables the creative
engineers, consulting geniuses, both employees, contractors and machines,
placemakers, to do their jobs (and increase revenue) as they interact with their
contractors) customers in an energetic, agile, collaborative, sustainable and
in the project. healthy environment—which can be accessed 24/7 for any type
From there, she of work/play/living needed to increase the economic perfor-
goes up to the mance of the company.
second floor and As the story closes, we bid Wendy goodbye as she rides away
Personal rapid transit vehicle. stares at a holo- to happy hour in a personal rapid transit vehicle.
Source: ARC personal rapid transit system concept gram displayed
from designer Zack Stephanchick.
on a workbench Nancy Johnson Sanquist is VP of Global Strategic Marketing
on ground level of the structure now in framing and discusses a for Planon. She is an IFMA Fellow and AIA Associate and is
problem with the Gehry Project Manager and the architectural currently 2nd Vice Chair for the IFMA Foundation where she is
team in New York City—who are also using the same mixed-use one of the founders of both the Global Workforce Initiative
technology. (GWI) and the Workplace Evolutionary Community. She also
Collaborating in the same hologram, they compare installation serves on the Board of the IFMA Real Estate Advisory Council. She is a
options for parts of a building system depicted in the BIM and well-known author, including two IFMA Foundation books, Work on the Move
are represented by a hologram. Superimposing the model on the (2014) and Work on the Move 2 (2016).
actual site, they realize there is no way that the building compo-
nent could be accessed for repairs as it has been designed. They Specializing in real estate and workplace strategy, Diane Coles
design a better solution together after the discovery, diverting Levine’s work is mentioned in Business Week, Fiscal Times and
what would likely have become a costly and timely repair if they Return on Performance magazine. She is co-editor and co-author
hadn’t caught that design flaw as early. of the “Work on the Move” book series and a guest lecturer at
As one of a team who embraces technology, Wendy uses her MIT Professional Education and Vienna University of
skills, along with the others, to utilize augmented and virtual Technology. Diane won the IFMA George Graves FM Achievement Award,
reality, as well as their knowledge of analytics, IWMS, 3D printing, CoreNet REmmy for “Workplace Innovation,” and CREW SPIRE award.
scanning, drones, RFID and other technologies to create entirely She is a member of the IFMA Board of Directors.

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