carbon footprint

planet

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

4 ways that facilities can help support the planet

As many companies evaluate their impact on the planet, developing programs and practices that align with their ESG goals, facility cleaning and maintenance are certainly
decarbonization

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Getting started in decarbonization

As we strive to lessen our impact on the environment, decarbonization is something that maintenance managers can work towards to help reach the sustainability goals.

Canadian Property Management

8 Steps to Decarbonization

Decarbonization has become an essential objective for organizations striving to reduce their carbon footprint. Here are 8 steps from Black & McDonald to help simplify the journey.
climate change

Construction Business

WSP named for $1.3B Edmonton CCUS project

WSP has been named as the owner's engineer for Heidelberg Materials’ Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) project in Edmonton.
Lafarge

Construction Business

Lafarge receives $5M CleanBC funding

Lafarge Canada is receiving a $5-million investment from the B.C. government to further develop its carbon utilization technology.
green cleaning

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Evolving from green cleaning to sustainability

In recent years, “green cleaning” has become important to businesses as a way to mitigate the cleaning industry’s negative effects on the environment. According to

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

How to go green with your landscaping

If you want to take a greener approach to your facility’s landscaping, now is a great time to plan ahead, optimize your asset management, and
tallest mass timber

Construction Business

Denver’s tallest mass timber project breaks ground in 2023

Designed by Tres Birds, Denver’s tallest mass timber building will break ground in 2023. The 12-storey building is named “Return to Form.”
carbon

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Are carbon labels coming to professional cleaning?

Consumers are increasingly scrutinizing product labels looking for another metric: the carbon footprint of a product.
embodied carbon

Canadian Property Management

The Buzz on Embodied Carbon

Lorena Polovina, Building Science Engineer at RJC Engineers shares the inside scoop on embodied carbon and what building owners need to know.