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.

New CMHC data explores the prevelance and implications of development-led evictions and other trends impacting Toronto's rental housing landscape.

Various jobs in these industries were found to suffer fatality rates of several times the average of 3.4 per 100,000 workers.

The global urgency for climate action has an upside companion in global opportunities for strategic investment that could improve people’s lives and yield sustainable returns.

The pandemic is pushing people to reconsider their post-work-life ambitions.

While climate change has increased the prevalence of weather-related floods, water damage due to plumbing and appliance failures happen daily—and sadly, they are often preventable.

Just as bricks-and-mortar stores embraced experiential retail to entice consumers who might otherwise shop online, organizations are now hoping to woo their remote-savvy workers back to the office.

With roof materials and replacement costs rising, the importance of maintaining a roof to prolong its service life cannot be understated.

Three key lessons for making buildings energy- and carbon-efficient and healthy.

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.

Ontario’s civic building inventory has fallen the farthest behind on capital repair among seven categories of municipal infrastructure assets scrutinized in a newly released report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario.

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

At last, our buildings are ready to catch up with the conveniences and expectations that future users have come to expect in the 21st century—and COVID has been the much-needed accelerant for this transformation in the building industry.

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.

Yorkdale is the latest Canadian facility to achieve the certification, which indicates that best infection prevention practices are in place.

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