Climate Change
Construction Business
Vancouver takes further steps for zero emissions
City of Vancouver has taken new steps to advance zero-emissions buildings as part of its Climate Emergency Action Plan.
REMI Network
Climate advocates warn of extreme heat fallout
Property owners, managers, and communities all have a role to play when it comes to the irreversible reality of extreme-heat events.
REMI Network
Only 1 in 5 Canadian households use smart home tech
In a new study about Canadian homeowners' attitudes towards sustainability, four in five respondents said that the issue of climate change is important to them and that they are concerned how it could affect future generations.
Construction Business
B.C. teams to undertake innovative retrofit projects
B.C. design teams have been selected to develop retrofit designs for six low- to mid-rise social housing buildings in different cities.
Canadian Property Management
Quebec budget boosts climate action spending
The budget also includes $232.5 million over five years to help universities and colleges rent additional space and $43 million to underwrite an extra 1,600 subsidized units in private rental housing.
Construction Business
Sapperton District Energy System receives funding
Sapperton District Energy System plans are heating up with a new collaboration between the City of New Westminster and Metro Vancouver.
REMI Network
Building Benchmark BC initiative announces strong uptake
The Building Benchmark BC database now captures the energy and GHG emissions of 1,163 buildings, representing 8.4+ million square metres of floor space.
Construction Business
Rebuilding B.C.’s highways for future resiliency
The impact to B.C.’s key highway corridors caused by the November atmospheric river events was devastating.
REMI Network
UBC expedites net-zero target
A new climate action plan at the University of British Columbia aims to accelerate emissions reductions and achieve net-zero emissions by 2035—15 years ahead of
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Solar technology in Canada’s facilities sector
Though solar energy has been utilized for some time, adoption has been hampered by poor aesthetics, high price tags and slow production.
REMI Network
Climate advocates call for CleanBC reboot
A large group of multi-sector signatories are calling on the B.C. government to overhaul its CleanBC climate action plan, calling it inadequate and out-of-step with recent climate data.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Guidelines inform resilient healthcare facilities
Newly released guidelines offer a standard for approaching the planning and designing of healthcare facilities from a resiliency perspective.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Passive House retrofit transforms aging Hamilton residential tower
An 18-storey affordable seniors’ residence in Hamilton, Ontario, has transitioned into one of the largest Passive House retrofits in North America.
Construction Business
Thinking bigger and taller with mass timber
Thinking bigger and taller with mass timber can help move the needle on carbon emissions. Building codes need to address the causes of climate change.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
5 ways to mitigate losses from water damage
While climate change has increased the prevalence of weather-related floods, water damage due to plumbing and appliance failures happen daily—and sadly, they are often preventable.
REMI Network
Global energy load has room to ease poverty
New research concludes there is capacity to power universal decent living standards (DLS) and stay beneath a 1.5-degree Celsius ceiling for temperature rise.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
10 ways the cleaning industry can fight climate change
The threat posed by climate change keeps growing, as do the warnings of its dire consequences, but what can the cleaning industry do?
