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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

Building Strategies & Sustainability

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

Building Strategies & Sustainability

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.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

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