The Observatory and Center for Valorization of Real Estate Innovations (OCVI²), associated with the Ivanhoé Cambridge Real Estate Chair at ESG UQAM, was launched in 2017 with the aim of creating a place that promotes and facilitates knowledge transfer developed in academic research within Quebec and Canada’s real estate ecosystem community.
The OCVI² ‘s mission is to identify, classify, interpret, update and make accessible to its partners information, data and tools to monitor innovations and changes affecting the real estate sector in order to facilitate decision-making among the different players who operate and support the development of jobs and competitive businesses in Quebec and Canada.
The observatory also has for mission to promote innovations by creating a center bringing together researchers from different disciplines in order to carry out research projects, internships and support the work of student researchers on the applications of these innovations.
Goals
The observatory aims to:
- position itself as a center for the development and promotion of knowledge and innovations in the management of the life cycle of buildings and the cycle of real estate transactions;
- create for the benefit of the members of the real estate ecosystem a database to support an integrated management approach of the different phases of the life cycle of buildings to better manage risks and overall costs;
- mobilize the knowledge of professors, researchers, experts, professionals and students to promote innovations in real estate and facilitate their transfer and application.
Research and work areas
- Axis 1: Real estate ecosystem in large cities
- Axis 2: Innovations and the life cycle of buildings
- Axis 3: Innovations and data management of the real estate transaction cycle
- Axis 4: Property, governance and management of buildings