News and Insights
Upward Mobility: Market Forces Drive Hospitals Higher
Urban healthcare facilities are increasingly embracing vertical hospital design driven by land scarcity, the need for co-located research and clinical care, enhanced security benefits, and post-pandemic lessons about scalable air-handling systems and flexible emergency preparedness infrastructure.
Healthcare’s Energy Crisis
Healthcare facilities face increasing energy infrastructure challenges as they compete for power on a stressed electrical grid while struggling to meet sustainability goals—but clean energy solutions like microgrids, solar panels, and battery storage are proving both cost-effective and essential for operational resilience during climate events and power outages.
How to Turn Hotel Spaces into Multipurpose Venues
Turning hotel spaces into multipurpose venues requires strategic planning with flexible infrastructure, modular furniture, and adaptive lighting and sound systems—enabling properties to transform lobbies into co-working spaces and event venues, pool decks into nighttime entertainment areas, and meeting rooms into yoga studios throughout the day.
Developers Making Headway After CEQA Reform, But Economics Stand In Their Way
Long-awaited changes to the California Environmental Quality Act have resulted in some progress for developments under review. But two months after the rule changes, developers in Southern California say there are still plenty of hurdles to project completion.
Cal Poly Transforms Student Housing with Modular Construction
Cal Poly is pioneering modular student housing construction to address critical shortages, marking the CSU system's first modular housing initiative.
Student Housing August Checklist
PMA’s resident student housing expert Brad Moeller has developed a comprehensive checklist to help developers seamlessly deliver their finished work.
New Law Will Spur Texas Housing Development
A new law allowing by right multifamily housing development is being put forward as a fix for Texas' housing supply.
How Process Drives Predictability in Multifamily Development
When it comes to multifamily development, the predictability that a project will deliver its anticipated Return on Investment (ROI) is key to success. A project can be threatened in two...
Berkadia grows affordable housing team; Sands selects Southeast leader; Humphreys names architecture chief
CoStar shares the latest "people of note," announcing new hires, promotions, and more. David Swank, our new Vice President of power and energy, is featured in this article.
Largest Tenant At Allen Office Building Reups For Another Decade: The DFW Deal Sheet
The DFW Deal Sheet shares the biggest business news in DFW, including that David Swank is joining PMA as Vice President to lead our power and energy practice.
Putting FM Data to Work
By better understanding the benefits and challenges of data analysis, as well as misconceptions about the process, managers can take full advantage of facilities data as an essential resource.
Project Management Advisors adds VP for power, energy practice
With energy access now a defining constraint in real estate development, Swank will guide PMA clients through early-stage power coordination, build-to-operate strategies, embed energy strategy into the development process, and bring clarity to capital planning conversations that increasingly begin with power availability and long-term capacity.
