COVID-19
REMI Network
Design guidelines for winterizing outdoor seating
Outdoor spaces have played a large role in sustaining the economy during the pandemic. The ICC has published new guidelines for winter.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario to shift some locked-in hydro costs
The roughly $433-million annual allocation for the relief measure will cover a small portion of the total global adjustment, which surpassed $1 billion in every month from January to September this year.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
How has COVID-19 changed the apartment market?
Jeremy Wedgbury, Senior Vice President, Commercial Mortgages, First National discusses how the pandemic has affected the apartment market.
Design Quarterly
Finding opportunity in a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity for design firms to streamline business operations and enhance collaboration.
REMI Network
Surrey school invests in COVID prevention renos
The Surrey independent school Glarea Elevated Learning has invested more than $500,000 in installing a new ventilation system to its facility.
REMI Network
Ontario allocates roughly $1 billion for COVID-19 resilience projects
A new COVID-19 Resilience infrastructure stream will help build or renovate health and safety related projects in long-term care, education and municipalities.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Examining ergonomic impacts to sanitation staff
Increased cleaning frequencies and heavy waste removal due to the use of more disposable commodities means the bodies of essential workers are taking a beating.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Class A apartments hit hardest by pandemic
Although multi-residential housing is fairing better than other asset types, Class A apartments are feeling the strain of the pandemic. What will the road to recovery look like?
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Airline cleaning methods can be effective elsewhere during COVID-19
New and enhanced airline cleaning and disinfection has been tested with a focus on infection control, and the results have been positive.
Construction Business
BCCSA updates best practices for presumptive cases
BCCSA recently updated its best practices for when someone on site is presumed to have COVID-19. The industry must continue to be vigilant.
CondoBusiness
Condo design takes cue from commercial facilities
Designers and developers foresee a greater turn towards health and wellness in the condo design of tomorrow.
REMI Network
COVID-19 prompts mortgage refinancing: survey
COVID-19 is driving some homeowners to refinance their mortgage ahead of deferral programs coming to an end.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate confidence barometer resets from Q2
Newly released third quarter results from the REALPAC/FPL Canadian Real Estate Sentiment Survey reveal senior executives looking forward more hopefully and reflecting on last year's better times.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New grants for COVID-19-related expenditures
Small business operators could receive up to $5,000 to be used for physical modifications to comply with public health requirements, PPE or upgrading digital/e-commerce capabilities.
Construction Business
Surety association recommends digital bonds
The Surety Association of Canada is repeating its recommendation of digital bonds with their white paper Digital Bonds the Way of the Future.
REMI Network
U of T’s fall reopening plan ‘unacceptable,’ says union
The union representing more than 10,000 contract academic workers at the University of Toronto is speaking out against the recent COVID-19 outbreaks on campus.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
How will campuses change because of COVID-19?
Colleges and universities are questioning how much space will be needed in the future campus, how it will be operated, and how to make our built environment more healthy, sustainable and resilient.
