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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Recession or inflation worries? Tips on navigating strained economic times

An economic recession affects everybody, from small businesses to large enterprises and every consumer connected. Stalling economic growth and the threat of compounding financial challenges
office floors

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Cleaning floors for health, instead of for appearance

Science is emerging about facility managers prioritizing your floors to clean for health, rather than for appearance.
CRE loan books undergo U.S. Fed stress test

Canadian Property Management

Operational resilience a performance priority

New technical guidance for assessing and responding to building-level risk underscores that operations teams carry responsibility to safeguard occupants, facilitate business continuity and protect asset value.
air purification

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

The importance of air purification

A sustainable and practical solution to indoor air pollution
shopping

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Designing the shopping experience of the future

New theories on retail centre on how experiences, convenience and a sense of community can draw people to a physical site.
tornado First Onsite

Canadian Apartment Magazine

In the event of a tornado

Important steps and precautions for residential property managers in the build-up and aftermath of a tornado.
Private homes preferred venue for cannabis consumption

CondoBusiness

Private homes preferred for cannabis use

More than 90 per cent of survey respondents confirm that they typically use non-medical cannabis in their own homes, while 46 per cent use it in other people’s homes.
Fossil-fuel-fired power plants place on notice

Canadian Property Management

Fossil-fuel-fired power plants placed on notice

Utilities and other entities selling power into public transmission and distribution networks have about 12 years to cut the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their production processes down to near-zero levels.
cyber security threats

REMI Network

Why facilities must be proactive to improve cyber security

Research found cyber attackers increased their targeting of internet-connected OT devices by 2,204% between January and September 2021.
Memorial University

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Science on display at Memorial University

A blue whale skeleton, 25 metres long, suspends from the ceiling of Memorial University’s Core Science Facility—as though it is swimming in empty space.
worker safety

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

8 essentials for worker safety

AFFLINK's Safety Supply Checklist outlines eight essentials for facility managers and workers.
Buildings sector pulls back on GHG accelerator

Canadian Property Management

Fuel-switching challenges expected to ease

Climate, cost and capacity pose fuel-switching challenges for building owners looking to curb greenhouse gas emissions in line with Canada’s target for a 40 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2030.
hybrid

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Hybrid workplaces give rise to legal dilemmas

Organizations are kickstarting work models that reflect flexible preferences, but along with this culture shift comes new legal considerations and best practices for equitable treatment.
water

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

The future of water in buildings is smart

Water creates levels of risk throughout all stages of a building’s life cycle and is a major cause of loss during and after construction.
e-voting

CondoBusiness

Fair condo elections at stake as Ontario consults on e-voting regs

In this new frontier of e-voting lies a confluence of ethical factors that should be considered ahead of permanent changes to the Condo Act.
CAO

CondoBusiness

Condos at high risk from reserve fund shortfalls

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.
Business case assumptions evolve alongside ESG

Canadian Property Management

Business case assumptions evolve alongside ESG

Investors and lenders are expected to increasingly focus on the physical and transitional risks of climate change, in turn upending some conventional views of costs and value.