Flooding

Contractors removing carpet after flood

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Ensuring Preparedness: Make Remediation Response a Facility Priority

Canada’s four distinct seasons make building maintenance a never-ending cycle of problems, often involving water. Facility managers face difficult yearly challenges. Establishing a plan in
Preparing an emergency plan.

Canadian Property Management

Ensuring Preparedness: Make Remediation Response a Building Priority

Canada’s four distinct seasons make building maintenance a never-ending cycle of problems, often involving water. Building managers face difficult yearly challenges. Establishing a plan in
insurance

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Uncertainty leads to rising costs

The biggest challenge for many real estate owners in 2024 will be finding affordable insurance coverage to protect their buildings.
spring storm damage

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Preventing spring storm damage to your building

As the seasons change and the weather heats up, spring storm damage presents a real risk to facility and maintenance managers. Heavy winds and rain
spring building maintenance

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Top tips for spring building maintenance

Winter has officially ended, and it’s time to embrace spring building maintenance, taking the necessary steps to protect your building and your business in preparation
Flooding

REMI Network

Three-in-five Canadians are worried about spring flooding, a new survey finds

Three-in-five Canadians are worried about the potential consequences that flooding and severe rain events may cause during the spring season.
repairs highway

Construction Business

Highway 1 permanent repairs to start in B.C.

Permanent repairs to flood-damaged sections of B.C.'s Highway 1 through the Fraser Canyon will soon be underway.
dyke network

Construction Business

Surrey plans dyke network upgrades

Surrey is in the first phase of upgrading the dyke network to protect against flooding from increasingly more common storm events.
flood cleanup

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Ensuring safe and effective flood cleanup

Flood cause a host of problems for facility operators and cleanup crews, from foundational damage to mould.
Fraser River

Construction Business

Fraser River erosion protection project complete

The stabilization of the river bank along the Fraser River in Chilliwack is now complete. The two phase project began three years ago.
New Brunswick revises disaster relief formula

REMI Network

Catastrophic flooding causes slump in sale prices

A new report from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation finds home prices have dropped in specific communities where catastrophic flooding occured.
winter maintenance

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Winter maintenance strategies that work

With experts predicting an earlier start to Canada’s cold season, the time to get started on winter maintenance is now.
CP railway line

Construction Business

CP Railway reopens key line after B.C. storm

Canadian Pacific (CP) has reopened its railway between Kamloops, B.C. and Vancouver following a severe rainstorm.
supply chain

Construction Business

Canada and B.C. create supply chain recovery group

Canada and B.C. have created a joint Supply Chain Recovery Working Group to restore the flow of goods through the province.
flooding

Construction Business

B.C. declares state of emergency due to severe flooding

The B.C. government has declared a provincial state of emergency due to the widespread damage caused by severe flooding and landslides in several communities.
water damage

Canadian Apartment Magazine

5 ways to mitigate losses from water damage

While climate change has increased the prevalence of weather-related floods, water damage due to plumbing and appliance failures happen daily—and sadly, they are often preventable.
weather

REMI Network

High-rise builders flagged in new flooding insight

Little has been invested in underground infrastructure to increase capacity when it comes to Toronto's aging sewage and stormwater pipes.