Facility Management
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Brampton, Ont. celebrates first LEED facility
Brampton, Ontario is celebrating its first LEED facility. DHL, a global logistics company, has achieved the designation at its DHL Express Headquarters.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Employee engagement key to business change
Despite proof that employee engagement is critical to successful business change, organizations pay scant attention to the people dimension of change.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Province selects vendor of record for task seating
ergoCentric Seating Systems has been selected by the Province of Ontario as its sole vendor of record (VOR) for task seating for the next three years.
REMI Network
BOMI International elects new officers, trustees
The BOMI International board of trustees has elected David Fagone, RPA, to the position of board chairman on a two-year term.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Toronto pilots office modernization program
In a bid to optimize its real estate portfolio, the City of Toronto has kicked off a pilot office modernization program with a target of 10 to 15-per-cent cost savings.
CondoBusiness
Cion acquires Coulter Building Consultants
Cion Corp., a company that provides technical services for the property and facility management industry, has acquired Coulter Building Consultants Ltd.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Queen’s U lab to advance power plant research
Queen’s University, located in Kingston, Ont., recently opened the doors to its Reactor Materials Testing Laboratory (RMTL).
Canadian Facility Management & Design
The case for load testing standby generators
Period load testing may be costly, but leaving a facility in the dark is costlier. An expert explains how to fix generator problems before outages occur.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Restroom conditions reflect on workplace: survey
Most men and women (89 per cent) judge how the workplace values its employees by the condition of the restroom, according to the 2015 Healthy Hand Washing Survey.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New and improved school facilities opening soon
Ontario students will soon benefit from 21 new schools, as well as school additions and renovations at nine facilities, opening over the next few months.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
RFPs: The cost of outdated specs
What building owners and managers don’t know about the changing world of the professional cleaning industry may be costing them.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Acquisition of Global Workplace Solutions closes
On Sept. 1, CBRE Group, Inc. announced that it has closed the acquisition of Johnson Controls, Inc.’s Global Workplace Solutions business.
REMI Network
Manitoba pledges to remove accessibility barriers
Manitoba has announced plans to lead the way on removing accessibility barriers in services and programs by the end of 2017.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
IFMA remembers founding father George Graves
The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) announced Saturday that it was saddened to mark the passing of its first president, George Graves.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
PRSM marks 20 years of growth in retail FM
The Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association (PRSM) is marking a milestone 20th anniversary, having evolved over the past two decades in step with the retail industry's need for facilities management expertise.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
FM company among Inc.’s fastest-growing 5,000
Inc. magazine ranked Global Facility Management and Construction 2,509 on its 34th annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Voting begins for Canada’s Best Restroom
For a sixth year now, Cintas is recognizing Canadian businesses that keep their public bathrooms clean, organized and well-stocked.
