Facility Management
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.
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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.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Three types of empathy for workplace leaders
In their 2019 Workplace Empathy survey, technology firm Businessolver discovered that 82 per cent of employees would consider leaving their job for a more empathetic organization,
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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.
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.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Employees absorb most home workspace costs
More than one third of survey respondents report no per-employee allocation has been established for the home workspaces where it’s projected staff will spend at least 42 per cent of their formal work hours well into 2021.
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Rebate extension postpones hydro cost hit
The six-month extension comes with an improved rate since the discount on pre-tax electricity consumption and transmission/distribution costs will increase to 33.2 per cent on November 1.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Making data-driven decisions to cut energy losses
Retrofits to remedy energy losses through the building envelope are sometimes based on assumptions and uncertainty.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Closing the FM skills gap during COVID-19
It is critical that FMs be part of a back-to-work strategy to voice their ideas, suggestions and areas for improvement that can all be applied going forward.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Edge computing centres put a cloud in a cabinet
Seen as the next big thing in data services, small hubs located near end-users are also more vulnerable to the encroaching outdoor environment than are vast temperature-controlled data centres.
