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RC: What are some of the highlights have a short-term employee residential
within your organization in the past 12 component that will be built using
months? modular units.
Golan: This past year has provided some
landmarks in Google’s history as a com- RC: What major technology projects were
pany. We received approval and have started or completed in the last year?
begun construction on our first ground- Golan: We can now use technology to
up project, Charleston East, directly predict and improve real estate needs.
adjacent to our corporate center in the These technologies may not have

Mark Golan - Google
Mark Golan is a seasoned executive
with extensive experience in real
estate, finance and technology. In
his current role as a Vice President of
Real Estate and Workplace services
(REWS) at Google, Mark oversees the
organization’s business partnerships,
central facilities services, events &
guest services, transportation, and
all facets of design and construction.

city of Mountain View, California. The emerged exclusively in the last year,
site will provide a critical link between but they’ve certainly advanced in the
adjoining Google campus properties. recent past. Google has video confer-
This is the first time Google has had the encing technology in every conference
chance to design and develop a campus room and we’ve been able to use this to
from the ground up and we’re using determine occupancy levels within the
the opportunity to explore sustainable rooms. We also have broad scale deploy-
building innovations and technologies. ment of sensors to drive lighting and
We’re also implementing an adaptable HVAC control as well as monitoring air
design that will allow us to accommo- quality. As you can imagine, these tech-
date changes to our long-term needs nology improvements have required a
quickly and efficiently. A second campus lot of data integration on the back-end.
called Bay View, located at NASA Ames A technology called Tango allows
Research Center near Moffett Federal us to accurately map the interiors of
Airfield, has the same design DNA as buildings. When combined with BLE
Charleston East. However, it will also and Lidar technologies, this is making

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