Facility Management
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Northwest Ontario inmates await needed space
Work will soon be underway to ease overcrowding at two Northwest Ontario correctional facilities in the interim before a planned new 325-inmate complex is built in the region.
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Five building tips to help migrating birds this spring
Many feathered friends won't be making it to their northern breeding areas this spring due to fatal collisions with reflective and transparent glass.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Corporate Real Estate Week set for mid March
CoreNet Global has planned a slate of virtual seminars, presentations and networking events tied to five different daily themes, and will also be releasing new studies and relevant data throughout the week.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Canadian suppliers lauded for clean earnings
Product and service suppliers to the property and facilities management sector are among eight publicly listed Canadian companies ranked for highest global revenues tied to low-carbon business activities.
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.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Facility managers turn to augmented reality
Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of surveyed facility managers expect to implement AR technology over the next two years.
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
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Adapt today, optimize tomorrow
Four solutions for a smarter, safer, and cleaner building as cleaning and maintenance is reinvented.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ASHRAE tracks COVID-19 HVAC learning curve
A newly refreshed edition of the ASHRAE Epidemic Taskforce’s Building Readiness Guide provides more resources for calculating the effectiveness of building flushing and filtration.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Permeable plaza earns plaudits for Chambly, QC
Pôle culturel de Chambly took top honours for a commercial project incorporating a variety of hardscape products, with the city recognized as both the contractor and designer.
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TPH calls on facilities to ramp up IPAC measures
Extra vigilance is expected as confirmed cases of the highly contagious U.K. B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19 spreads within Ontario-based facilities.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Why FMs can’t sell ideas to senior management
Facility managers require resources to accomplish tasks, but other departments within the organization need the same and limited resources.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Landlords would welcome vaccination clinics
Prominent commercial landlords are offering free space to accommodate COVID-19 vaccination clinics and related support services in malls, conference centres, office buildings and other well-located sites throughout Canada.
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Dexterra & FSI Canada: A Partnership Taking FM to New Heights
Under growing pressure to drive efficiencies, push sustainability and maximize asset performance, embracing technology has become more and more pivotal to the work FMs do every day.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Graffiti is more than just scrawl for facility owners
Graffiti diminishes feelings of safety and hurts property owners’ pockets, and COVID-19 has created more tagging opportunities.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Long-term care home projects put on fast track
The Ontario government has released a bid package offering three land parcels tied to requirements for successful proponents to develop and operate a total of 896 new long-term care beds.
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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.