Real estate operators can look to CSA-accredited professionals for guidance on making buildings more welcoming and workable for people of all abilities.

Much of the existing building stock falls short of the universal design ideal, but RHFAC can help owners/managers identify impediments to access and set priorities to address them.

Ottawa and Calgary are two current Canadian examples where pressure is mounting to abandon major arenas still far from the end of their structural life cycles and build anew.

The new Albion Library, opened earlier this summer, is the first of Toronto’s 102 branches to introduce gender-neutral washrooms.

UBC is breaking down barriers with Ponderosa Commons, the first of five mixed-use residences designed to activate the commuter campus year-round.

With the development of the York Recreation Centre, the City of Toronto is serving a previously underserved community by using a previously underused site.

Last year, the commercial real estate industry faced a number of diverse challenges and successes that are expected to develop throughout 2017. Here, REMI’s award-winning

The new Waterdown Library and Civic Centre is designed to read like a ‘fragment’ of the Niagara Escarpment over which it cantilevers.

Adding a new wing to the fully developed site would require surgical precision. The original Chinook Regional Hospital, which was constructed close to 30 years

Ryerson University's new Student ServiceHub has just earned an Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO) award of excellence.

BMO Field hosted the celebration of two goals at the TFC’s home opener May 7. One was the completion of the sports venue’s $150-million transformation.

The latest phase of accessibility regulations in Ontario may concern employment standards, but facility managers have a role to play in compliance.

The design of the RCMP's new Nova Scotia headquarters reconciles its requirements of internal security and external accountability.

As of 2015, anyone renovating or constructing a public space must meet new building code requirements. Here's how one company achieved AODA compliance.

Kitchener Public Library’s $40-million renovation and expansion, completed in September 2014, responded to a new digital reality.

Diamond Schmitt Architects' dramatic $27-million redesign of Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library earned a 2015 Library Building Award on July 7.

Universal design encompasses much more than physical accessibility, as three Interior Designers of Canada members recently explained in a panel discussion.