COVID-19
Construction Business
Economic recovery program addresses climate change
Funding from StrongerBC: BC’s Economic Recovery Plan for the Climate Adaptation Program will increase roadway resiliency.
Construction Business
Infrastructure projects spur construction activity
Major infrastructure projects will ensure the B.C. construction industry stays busy including two high-profile transportation ones.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Upfront costs hinder access to energy savings
More than 110 industry associations, building service/product providers and public advocacy and community development groups are voicing support for no-cost incentives targeted specifically to low-income households.
Canadian Property Management
Women bear brunt of 2020 real estate job loss
Women were jettisoned from 14,300 of the roughly 16,000 positions Ontario's real estate, rental and leasing sector shed last year.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Average rent in Canada down 8.7% in January
The average rent for all Canadian properties in January 2021 dropped to $1,714 per month, down 8.7 per cent compared to January 2020.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
How FMs can leverage data in 2021
IoT platforms that use overhead sensors, booking data, and smartphone space-reservations to pull analytics, are increasingly playing a key role in supporting the growing data-driven workplace.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
AdvantAge Ontario research backs seniors’ “campuses of care”
Newly released research from AdvantAge Ontario sheds a positive light on a model of senior care, known to the sector as "campuses of care".
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Investing in Canada’s aging residential towers
Aging residential towers are in dire need of investment, something the pandemic has underscored given the scores of frontline workers who’ve been disproportionately affected.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Q4 cap rate trends vary by sector
Cap rates trended upwards for downtown office, hotels and most retail categories during the fourth quarter of 2020, while compressing further for industrial and low-rise multifamily properties.
Canadian Property Management
COVID-19 clips 2020 investment performance
A ten-year run of capital growth abruptly reversed, resulting in a 7.8 per cent loss of value across the 2,356 assets that the 44 portfolios represented in the Canada Annual Property Index hold.
REMI Network
Auditing a condo’s pandemic response
In the thick of a second wave, industry members are more aware of the foresight required of them, prompting recent questions about pandemic response.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
FM leaders share career-boosting advice
FM leaders reveal the obstacles they overcame to attain their higher-level positions and how future professionals can follow suit.ƒƒ
Construction Business
B.C. program funds high demand skills training
The B.C. government has launched a new Skills Training for Economic Recovery program in order to support people affected by COVID-19.
CondoBusiness
Closing the condo manager skills gap
This pandemic has helped condo managers to identify relevant skill gaps in relation to being prepared for the unexpected.
Construction Business
Force majeure clauses in contracts
Since the beginning of COVID-19, one issue that has garnered attention in contracts is the applicability of force majeure clauses.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily assets surpass 2020 index average
Newly released 2020 investment results find industrial and multifamily assets on the positive side of the national average total return for 2,356 directly held standing assets, which registered -4.1 per cent.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Disinfectants: Are we at the end of the road?
Scientists at a South African university say there's a growing risk of SARS-CoV-2 developing resistance to disinfectants and antibiotics.
