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Canadian Facility Management & Design
Campus high-rise brings health to new heights
Dingy is a word that conjures thoughts of old institutional spaces. Academic buildings with dimly-lit hallways and windowless classrooms punctured with fluorescent glare. Rarely are
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The future of sustainable cleaning
Whatever the facility, prioritizing sustainable cleaning creates a healthier, greener environment for all.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
C.L.E.A.N. tips for pest prevention
Remember to keep pest management in mind this summer to create a plan of attack for all potential problems.
Canadian Property Management
Status quo stymies innovative retrofit options
Prevailing approaches for incentivizing, financing and implementing retrofit projects deemed unlikely to propel the existing building inventory to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Purpose-built Indigenous hub will be Ontario first
Construction is officially underway on what will be Ontario's first mixed-use, purpose-built Indigenous hub in the West Don Lands of Toronto.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Health, wellness and the internet
The need for strong internet connection that facilitates all aspects of a tenant’s life—working, learning, exercising, socializing—is here to stay.
REMI Network
Reaching net zero in the age of COVID-19
Optimizing ventilation and air handling systems is key to achieving net zero energy performance goals.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Indigenous voices hushed in planning processes
Indigenous communities across Canada continue to be sidelined or completely excluded from initial planning phases of new developments and renovations.
CondoBusiness
Condo finances feel the COVID effect
The pandemic has altered an interesting and often overlooked item in the budget, which is not a cost at all, but a loss of revenue.
Canadian Property Management
Heat is on for electricity demand projections
Electricity demand projections through the vaccination rollout period should take two contradictory factors into account, energy management specialists affirm.
REMI Network
Manulife is raising standards in real estate
Enhancing cleaning, disinfection, and communication is critically important within real estate at a time when health and safety is top of mind.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Pandemic intensifies evolving role of FM
Facility managers are no longer viewed as a back-office function, but rather “a strategic instrument to attract and retain talent and create a great experience,”
CondoBusiness
Ontario advances elevator repair legislation
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.
Canadian Property Management
Cogeneration systems to lose tax enticement
The 2021 federal budget adds some clean energy equipment to immediately qualify for accelerated capital cost allowance, and names various combined heat and power applications to be delisted after 2023.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
What toxic chemicals are lurking in our buildings?
In the age of COVID, it's also important to consider how chemical exposures influence our ability to fight disease.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Weathering the 3rd wave of COVID-19
As COVID-19 variants surge throughout the country, what do the latest lockdown measures mean for residential landlords?
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
COVID-19 and HVAC systems
Cleaning and disinfecting HVAC air conveyance systems has never been more critical.



















