Sustainability
Building Strategies & Sustainability
How next gen FM’s will help save the planet
Climate change is no longer a debatable, foggy topic, but rather a flurry of factual evidence, synchronized with environmental and cultural discourse around the globe.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
WTO pushes open trade in environmental goods
Canada is among the nations currently negotiating a trade agreement for environmental goods
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Why consider doing a building water audit
Canada is in the enviable position of being “water-rich,” according to a July 2013 Frasier Institute study. In 2011, it had the fourth-largest supply of
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Something new under the sun in Kimberley B.C.
Off Highway 95A, between the Purcell and Rocky Mountains, where the sun shines more than 300 days of the year, lies Kimberley, British Columbia, population
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SaskPower inspires recall of smart meters
SaskPower's experience sparks recall of smart meters in Ontario.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
GTA site showcases stormwater management
About fifteen years ago, Jim Ecclestone found an old, 2000-gallon stainless steel water tank lying in a farmer’s field. The president and chief executive officer
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Red tape stifles Quebec’s green roofs
In Montreal, Saint-Laurent borough Mayor Alan DeSousa has a seemingly straightforward goal: to promote green roofs on private sector developments. DeSousa, who received the 2014
Canadian Property Management
Returns on repositioning aging buildings
Whatever the strategy, value enhancement is the rationale for repositioning aging buildings.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Resilient buildings function through crises
Resilient buildings respond to the growing likelihood of extreme weather events.
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Commercial sector waste diversion strategies
Half a can of pop is all it takes. That hundred-odd millilitres of syrupy soda is enough to contaminate an entire paper recycling stream. A
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Markham’s energy-focused Buttonville project
A couple years from now, construction workers will put shovels to ground as they build a whole new urban community on what was once a
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Edmonton’s ‘world-class’ sustainable agenda
Once the first licensed airfield in Canada, workers at the Blatchford development site in Edmonton, Alberta are now prepping the ground for what is hoped
Building Strategies & Sustainability
BOMA BESt offers portfolio-based application
BOMA BESt's new portfolio-wide application targets light industrial and open-air retail properties
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Next steps in sustainable soil management
Since the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO) introduced a web-based soil-matching service last year, responding to the need for sustainable dig and
Construction Business
Jumping on board wood-frame construction
Standing 30 metres high, the tallest all-wood modern building has now opened its doors in northern B.C. The $25 million Wood Innovation and Design Centre (WIDC) in downtown Prince George is built to LEED Gold status and an example of the viability of constructing taller buildings made of wood.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Extended phase-in for new LEED certification
LEED proponents will now have an extra 16 months to register projects under current criteria before the more rigorous LEED version 4 becomes mandatory in November 2016.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
Inventive ways to cultivate green tenants
Although many tenants find value in creating sustainable office environments, over time, green behaviour can slip if property managers don’t foster this culture. However, according



