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Canadian Facility Management & Design
Virus hastens new tower at St. Michael’s Hospital
A much anticipated, and unfinished, addition to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto was fast-tracked to keep pace with a fast-moving pandemic.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Community centres redefined for a new era
How to socially distance in spaces charged for social interactions? This is just one challenge facing community centres as they prepare for reopening—bit by bit—across
CondoBusiness
Are condos prepared for climate change?
While many condos haven’t yet experienced the major effects of climate change, statistics and case studies foreshadow the impacts that could come.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Working at home full time undesirable for most
The office remains a preferable environment for the majority of workers who find working from home every day an unfavourable option.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Reopening the workplace amid COVID-19 fears
Collaborative spaces will take on new importance as flexibility remains a key factor moving forward when reinventing and reopening the workplace.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
A new home for first responders in Delta, B.C.
The facility brings together a multi-purpose satellite fire station, a live-fire training building, and a municipal emergency operations centre.
Canadian Property Management
Turnaround tales of value-add assets
Prominent Canadian asset managers recently recounted their experiences in repositioning underperforming properties, offering insight on turnaround logistics and the role value-add assets play in investment strategies.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Hamilton office space luring global tech firms
Brick-and-beam buildings in Hamilton are transforming into modern office space for tech firms looking to employ a growing talent pool.
Canadian Property Management
LRT development momentum on track in Toronto
The recently completed $102-million deal for Toronto Don Valley Hotel & Suites heralds the development momentum attached to the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit line, now under construction across a 19-kilometre east-west stretch of the city.
Canadian Property Management
Big three retail landlords thrive on experience
Yorkdale Shopping Centre again takes the title of Canada's most productive mall in the Retail Council of Canada's annual analysis of shopping centres with more than 250,000 square feet of gross leasable area.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Workplace trends impacting office design
Major workplace trends are creating the impetus for more sustainable, adaptable and productive places of employment.
Construction Business
Challenging library renovation
The project team on the Vancouver Central Library Level 8 and 9 revitalization project faced many challenges, requiring innovative solutions.
Design Quarterly
Resilient design in the workplace
A panel of speakers explored the significant steps businesses, governments and learning institutions are actively taking towards resilient design
CondoBusiness
Condos reign in housing market outlook for T.O.
Housing activity is expected to rebound in the GTA over the next couple of years, with condo apartments leading the way in sales and construction.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Gen Z wellbeing suffering in Canadian offices
Canadian employers in the corporate office sector are not doing enough to support wellbeing among young people entering the workforce.
Canadian Property Management
Long-awaited revival of Yonge Sheppard Centre
A scurry of people is criss-crossing paths in the newly renovated Yonge Sheppard Centre in North Toronto.
Construction Business
Alberta enables long-term property tax breaks
Newly adopted amendments to Alberta's Municipal Government Act extend provisions that were initially devised to support the rejuvenation of derelict brownfields to all non-residential properties.