Schools should implement these layered prevention strategies to mitigate the risks of COVID infection or transmission to the school community and beyond.

A centralized agency will be tasked with identifying provincially owned sites with redevelopment potential, placing a priority on new uses that align with infrastructure initiatives.

New findings revealed that general psychological health is currently at its lowest point in the last 22 months among Canadian workers.

With increasing digitalization and pressures on operating costs and infection control, AGV systems will play a more significant role in the hospital setting.

A new men's emergency and transitional housing facility, set to rise in Aurora, Ontario, has opened the door to pilot-testing Passive House in York Region.

Organizations across Canada have increasingly turned to surveillance technologies during the pandemic as a way to monitor their employees' work behaviour.

The real estate and property management industries may face particular hurdles with respect to implementing the proposed disconnecting from work policy.

Through the doors of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, the first hospital to ever rise in Vaughan, Ontario, life’s health challenges are met with comfort, safety and lots of natural light.

Those who have not yet experienced a virtual ergonomic training or assessment may have some questions that can be easily answered.

Every team should create a checklist, and then continually review their internal systems—floor by floor—to reveal any possible failure points.

Personal liability is a mounting possibility for directors, officers and supervisors of organizations that run afoul of environmental regulators or are on the losing side of civil litigation.

A new iteration of property expense relief will be more bountiful for many recipients than recent payouts of the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidiary, but fewer commercial tenants or owner-occupiers will qualify.

Pandemic paperwork is becoming more voluminous for commercial landlords as a growing list of influential tenants ask for proof that building personnel have two valid COVID-19 vaccinations.

As employees eventually return to the office, most will bring with them a heightened sensitivity to their surroundings—specifically to what they touch and their proximity to coworkers.

Organizations are now encouraged to develop a change management process based on a new understanding of the post-COVID needs of their people.

Many commercial real estate operators are making the simple business case for buildings that are functional for all potential users. It’s a quest that can begin with simple investigations, simple low-cost measures and simple mindfulness.

Newly released guidelines offer a standard for approaching the planning and designing of healthcare facilities from a resiliency perspective.