Moriyama Teshima Architects designed a calming campus that reflects Canada’s natural history amidst an otherwise hyper-surveillanced area.

Greater access to low-cost indoor air quality (IAQ) sensors may create new scrutiny for facility management teams.

FMs often work behind the scenes, but their influence is also strategic, human-centred, and essential to organizational resilience.

Key federal departments are scrambling to catch up with climate risk assessments and response plans after the Auditor General of Canada uncovered gaps in monitoring and a slow rollout of adaptive actions.

The costs to achieve deep cuts in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions could crunch more favourably for capital budgeters with the promise of a green premium.

Ontario-based workers can now track their exposure to 11 hazardous substances through Canada’s first-ever occupational exposure registry (OER). The province’s newly launched online portal is

Women are significantly underrepresented in the skilled trades sector, which directly limits the pool of qualified workers that the facilities management industry depends on.

The facility management industry is preparing for higher workloads, modest budget growth and a more deliberate approach to staffing and project risk over the next year.

Aging retail buildings, once the backbone of bustling commercial districts, are now environmental and financial liabilities.

As workplaces respond to evolving employee preferences, attention is turning to an overlooked source of talent: neurodivergent employees.

Toronto Metropolitan University's new medical school has transformed a former civic centre into a hub for healthcare education. It's tackling a doctor shortage while bringing the local community into the heart of a campus for services.

Recreational facilities across Vancouver face higher operating costs and lagging service delivery in the absence of a capital asset management framework.

Facility managers are often integrated into capital projects during the commissioning or post-occupancy phases, after critical decisions affecting long-term operations have been made.

Besides fire code and occupational health and safety frameworks, restroom cleaning practices are now top of mind.

Most respondents who reported experiencing a work-related incident or illness (or knowing someone who has) say it was stress-related, with this figure being significantly higher in Canada.

As church congregations dwindle across Canada and the cost to maintain their faith-built spaces increases, ideas abound for how to repurpose these buildings into potential

Sourcing the right technology is becoming increasingly crucial for facility managers who oversee understaffed teams while facing more work orders.