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Industry loses noted architect Brian L. Curtner

With great sadness, Quadrangle Architects shared that founding principal Brian L. Curtner passed away Saturday from cancer. He was 64.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

BIM’s value throughout the building life cycle

Experts share how facility managers can fully capture the benefits made available in BIM throughout the building life cycle.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Topping off celebrated at Peel healthcare facility

Construction on Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness, located in Brampton, Ont., has reached a major milestone.

Canadian Property Management

Virtual reality emerges in commercial sector

Office marketing tools of the future will immerse users in new or non-existent environments, offering them the chance to virtually control a presale asset.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

MacOdrum Library’s novel redesign wins award

Diamond Schmitt Architects' dramatic $27-million redesign of Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library earned a 2015 Library Building Award on July 7.

Design Quarterly

The fine art of managing samples

With so many samples to juggle, and as technology has become forever intertwined in our lives, documenting information in a digital format appears to be the perfect solution.

Design Quarterly

Achieving the most from regenerative design

Architects committed to sustainability have focused, rightly, on minimizing damage to the environment. But today, thanks to new research, innovation and technology, it is clear that designers can do even more: they can use their work to improve the environment through what is known as regenerative design.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

LEED Gold-targeting campus built to climate

The University College of the North's new LEED Gold-targeting campus considers the local climate of Thompson, Manitoba, in its design.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Ontario invests $501-mil in hospital expansion

Ontario is committing up to $501.3 million toward the construction of a new four-storey patient care building at Milton District Hospital.

Design Quarterly

B.C.’s largest private development underway

Construction for a $600 million multi-faceted entertainment resort adjacent to BC Place Stadium is underway. Construction is expected to be complete in late 2016.

Design Quarterly

Okanagan College achieves LEED Platinum

The Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation at Okanagan College has been certified LEED Platinum.
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Canadian Facility Management & Design

Why LEED certification is becoming an essential

As LEED certification increasingly matters to tenants’ employees, sound environmental stewardship has moved from a nice-to-do to a must-do for many companies.

Construction Business

2015 Alberta Steel Design Award results

Six winners were announced at the 2015 Alberta Steel Design Awards of Excellence gala event held in Edmonton, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Alberta Design Awards.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Design team selected for T.O. waterfront park

Aitken Place Park, a new 3,000-square-metre park planned for the Toronto waterfront, will be designed by landscape architecture firms Thomas Balsey Associates and Scott Torrance Landscape Architect Inc. The companies, based out of New York and Toronto respectively, were selected to collaborate on the project by Waterfront Toronto.

REMI Network

New campus planned for Emily Carr University

The Emily Carr University of Art and Design is embarking on the development of a new $122.65-million campus to better accommodate increased student demand and program growth. The new campus, which will provide modern facilities for 1,800 visual arts, media arts and design students, will be located on an 18-acre site, known as Great Northern Way, on the False Creek Flats in Vancouver, B.C.

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Wood projects win Prairie Wood Design Awards

Eight Prairie Wood Design Awards were handed out at Alberta’s 8th annual Wood WORKS! ceremony. Chosen from a pool of more than forty entries, the

CondoBusiness

How building design influences condo security

Condominium security and the management of security services can be challenging if the three main bodies that govern the service (the condo board, property manager