Design
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Arts facilities play starring role in revitalization
St. Catharines has cast the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre to play a starring role in the revitalization of the city’s downtown.
CondoBusiness
2016: The year of kids in condos?
If Ben Myers’ big prediction for 2016 pans out, kids’ play spaces could become the hottest amenity in the condo market.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
WELL Building Standard poised to accelerate
Further refinement of the WELL Building Standard is expected as a plethora of studies point to the growing concern for health and wellness.
Design Quarterly
Understanding regenerative design
Current green building practice remains focused on individual buildings without acknowledging the larger system context as regenerative design would.
Design Quarterly
The bold and chic design for Hotel Arts
Art is one of many design aspects to a hotel, but it’s not usually the primary driving inspiration. For Hotel Arts in Calgary, its unique art-centered aesthetic has set it apart in the marketplace.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Technology and the modern tenant
The way we search, rent, and live in apartments is changing thanks to ground-breaking internet technology. Whether you're a tenant looking for a unit or a landlord trying to rent one, success begins online.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
LEED v4 users lag ahead of new deadline
LEED registrants appear to be taking full advantage of the deadline extension before the more rigorous version 4 of the certification program becomes mandatory.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
The RCMP’s new Nova Scotia headquarters
The design of the RCMP's new Nova Scotia headquarters reconciles its requirements of internal security and external accountability.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Accessibility, ergonomics and AODA compliance
As of 2015, anyone renovating or constructing a public space must meet new building code requirements. Here's how one company achieved AODA compliance.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
B.C. offers flexibility for redevelopment
A proposed amendment to British Columbia’s Strata Property Act could make it easier for apartment developers to scoop up prime real estate in B.C.’s hottest neighbourhoods.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Pension funds drawn to investable cities
Despite an abundance of investment funds spending across the globe, Canadian infrastructure continues to face a crisis.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate value tied to human behaviour
While demographics are a way to predict some uncertainties that await an aging real estate industry, understanding human values is a more accurate compass.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
How ‘art became the new steel’ in Hamilton
Creative industries in Hamilton, Ontario are now forming the physicality of the city's landscape and impacting municipal public policy.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Kitchener Public Library gets digital reboot
Kitchener Public Library’s $40-million renovation and expansion, completed in September 2014, responded to a new digital reality.
Construction Business
Technology set to change construction
With technology advancing faster than ever before, it’s no wonder the construction industry is starting to see rapid changes every year.
Design Quarterly
Creating timeless kitchens
From countertops and cabinets, to appliances to islands, here are some of today's hottest kitchen design trends that will have long-lasting appeal.
Design Quarterly
Building a social media platform
Through social media platforms, brand promotion has never been easier. These online channels are effective for advertising, self-promotion, and best of all, connecting with clients.




