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Walmart Corporation | New Home Office: Purpose-Driven Workplace Design

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The IBcon Smart Building Best Practice Showcase is an annual event held at the Realcomm | IBcon conference where real estate leaders present their most innovative, technology driven commercial and corporate real estate projects. These projects demonstrate leading-edge technologies and vision for intelligent and adaptive design that is transforming the next generation of IT-enabled real estate. The Weekly News Briefing will feature a unique Showcase project each week.

Walmart is reimagining workplace creativity, collaboration, and connection at its New Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas, opening in 2025. The high-efficiency campus will establish a winning work environment that drives efficiency and productivity through connected buildings and teams and fosters creativity, speed and transparency. Sustainably designed and powered by smart technology, the New Home Office is an essential part of Walmart’s journey to become a regenerative company. Once completed, the 350-acre campus will be a model for the zero-emissions future driving across Walmart’s operations. With strong roots in the community, design that embraces the natural beauty of the region, and a commitment to a whole health approach, Walmart is building for the future.

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