Energy Management
Canadian Property Management
Market responds to energy performance postings
Evidence shows that increasing the visibility of actions to reduce energy costs and consumption helps to draw support and build momentum.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Capitalizing on solar’s gain
The process of adding solar panels to a building's roof or adjacent land can be made much simpler and less expensive than what is probably thought.
Canadian Property Management
Solar solutions
Waste heat recovery is an exciting renewable energy technology. Waste heat recovery units add to the efficiency of building energy needs ...
Canadian Property Management
Dashboards show buildings’ real-time energy use
Five high resolution digital screens prominently placed in the elevator lobbies of Royal Bank Plaza's two downtown Toronoto office towers show the buildings’ real-time electricity use and compare it to past performance.
Building Strategies & Sustainability
The worry-free way to energy retrofits
An energy performance contract is an agreement between a building owner and an energy service company (ESCO) whereby the ESCO takes full responsibility for identifying, financing, implementing, commissioning ...
CondoBusiness
What’s next for green condos
Improving the sustainability and energy efficiency of condominiums is not new. However, in terms of the most important and new energy-saving measures, it comes down to making small changes and sticking to simple solutions.
Canadian Property Management
Street light conversion projects underway
Shrinking payback periods for LED streetlights are helping to make the business case for large-scale conversions in many Canadian municipalities.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario’s proposed industrial electricity incentive
Industrial electricity incentive program applicants may be eligible for a 70 per cent discount on electricity costs in return for creating one new ...
Canadian Property Management
Recommissioning finds qualitative quick fixes
Recommissioning focuses on right-sizing a building’s mechanical and electrical systems and their operation for today’s conditions.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Energy audits
An energy audit is the logical first step in helping to reduce a facility’s utility costs and carbon footprint, and justify capital expenditures. Here are 10 things every building manager should know before embarking on an energy audit.
Canadian Property Management
ASHRAE introduces new labelling program
The Building Energy Quotient program introduces a scoring system and database that will allow participants to compare their building’s performance ...
CondoBusiness
Building automation can save energy
Energy efficiency in highrise multi-residential buildings can be achieved through a variety of retrofits. However, one method that is often overlooked is ...
Building Strategies & Sustainability
The new landscape of energy conservation
The Ontario Power Authority has introduced a number of new conservation programs to help consumers and businesses save money, better manage their electricity use, reduce their impact on the environment and help ensure the province has ...
Canadian Property Management
ISO 50001 energy management systems standard
The ISO 50001 energy management systems standard initially focuses more on commitment to performance than performance itself.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Core sunlighting
Core sunlighting is a system that gathers natural sunlight, concentrates it and delivers it deep into a building’s interior, not just the area along ...
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Utilizing site-recovered energy
Many commercial building owners are turning to energy recovery ventilation technology that recovers energy on-site and reuses it to reduce the demand ...
Canadian Property Management
Peer pressure underpins conservation strategy
Facilities managers and building operators in Ontario’s elementary and secondary schools have a new tool for tracking energy consumption – one that will soon allow them to benchmark a school’s performance against ...
