As multi-residential buildings grapple with rising construction costs, condo managers in Ontario are experiencing the impacts up close.

Ongoing challenges to capital replacement project costs are wreaking havoc on already stressed reserve funds and causing anxiety for boards and property managers throughout the province.

Construction cost increases are a significant concern if a condo needs to complete work in the next year or so. But the concern isn't just the here and now.

New buildings are subject to laws and regulations, which require them to be compatible with EVCs.

The growing crop of condo owners across Canada will likely encounter huge annual fee increases and lump-sum payments due to low reserve fund contributions, authors of a new research report are warning.

As policies continue to change and the labour shortages remain unsettled, managers must continue to ride the waves.

Building failures of this horrific scope are seldom seen in North America. But it is important to examine what happened so we can learn and prevent similar collapses in the future.

Technology is revolutionizing the way condo buildings operate and positively impacting the lives of residents and managers.

We should be asking our reserve fund planners to look at the Paris accord target dates and compare the end-of-life replacement of our gas-burning appliances against the target dates.

As the country moves to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles, questions are brewing among people living in multi-unit dwellings.

How would this scenario unfold in Ontario? Leaving aside the construction process itself, there are vast differences between Ontario and Florida condominium laws that would have given the Champlain towers significant added protections following registration.

Federal scrutiny of condo procurement should be sufficient reason for diligent condo boards to examine their procurement practices.

For condo buildings built in the 1980’s or 1990’s, there is likely a window project coming up in the reserve fund study.

The insurance crisis in condominiums is affecting how boards are planning for disasters in Ontario.

Should the corporation move forward with certain maintenance repairs if the issue has the potential to become exponentially worse?

Ontario is kicking the dust off of elevator repair legislation, which was passed under the Liberal government in May 2018 but never proclaimed into law.

While the relevance of geothermal has been percolating for years, the buzz is that more developers are starting to pay attention.