Meeting spaces in today’s offices and institutional facilities are vastly different from the stodgy conference rooms of old. This trend is driven both by advancing

Maintaining a building like the Royal Ontario Museum is not easy. Facility managers must balance visitor needs with exhibition requirements.

Property managers must balance tenant satisfaction, building operations and sustainability trends when monitoring indoor air quality.

Hotel renovations are essential for staying competitive. But management must balance guest facing upgrades with non-guest facing improvements.

Solar power generation is a green way to reduce energy costs. But there are pros and cons of solar panels when it comes to apartment buildings.

While consumers have taken to emerging tech trends like tablets and social media, the construction and real estate industries have lagged behind.

New developments in washers and dryers means that multi-residential laundry facilities can minimize energy usage and maximize profits.

Here are four steps to help a company manage its data assets.

Providing tenants with instant information on their smartphones can give a property a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and enable savvy property managers to maximize their time and measure their results.

It is time to reassess overall facilities management processes and drive efficiency with some of the same technologies contributing to productivity gains in leading industries.

As electric vehicles become more popular, the building industry is starting to look at how it can accommodate ...

The process of adding solar panels to a building's roof or adjacent land can be made much simpler and less expensive than what is probably thought.

Many industry insiders and advocates are now urging building managers and operators to make better use of their smartphones.

Waste heat recovery is an exciting renewable energy technology. Waste heat recovery units add to the efficiency of building energy needs ...

Hands-on tasks increasingly involve touch screens and an associated learning curve for many employees who joined the workforce in the analog age. This can be particularly true for commercial building operators and residential superintendents ...

Ontario’s burgeoning water technology industry is in step with efforts in other countries to build international ties and learn from innovative efforts in areas where freshwater is a scarce commodity.

Touch-free systems can provide a safer, cleaner and more pleasant restroom environment, and research shows 90 per cent of patrons prefer these options.