Health & Safety
Canadian Facility Management & Design
More than 800 patios set to bloom in Toronto
A third season of the CaféTO program kicks off in May, bringing outdoor patios to sidewalks and curb lanes, and live music in select locations.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Quebec updates rules for handling asbestos
Removal of drywall with asbestos compounds in the joint-filler has been reclassified from a low-risk to moderate-risk activity.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario adds jobsite safety oversight options
Numerous references to “professional engineers” have been replaced solely with the word “engineers” within nine of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety regulations.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Corporate officers to assume more liability
Omnibus legislation aims to ease transition for licensed trades and professions moving into Ontario, and to enshrine steeper maximum fines in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Canadian Property Management
IAQ combos arresting airborne spread of COVID
Commercial building operators could use a combination of air exchange, filtration and purification to comply with the industry-leading guidance for arresting airborne spread of pathogens and contaminants.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Air purification supplier ramps up production
Ontario-based manufacturer, Abatement Technologies, has a $20-million expansion project underway to increase production capacity at its facility in Fort Erie.
Canadian Property Management
Lockdown relief temporarily more generous
Federal rent and wage subsidies will be open to an expanded range of applicants who are subject to pandemic-related constraints during the eight-week period from Dec. 19, 2021 to Feb. 12, 2022.
Canadian Property Management
Air filtration improvements in line for rebate
As announced in the federal Economic and Fiscal Update, small businesses could qualify for a refundable tax credit of up to $10,000 per project on qualifying investments in air filtration and HVAC systems.
Design Quarterly
CSA Group takes lighting services to California
CSA Group promises to hasten turnaround times for getting lighting products into the marketplace through centralized offering of testing, inspection and certification services,
CondoBusiness
Multifamily fire risk factors evolve over time
The combination of improved suppression and ignition source depletion has reduced the risk of fire-related fatalities within residential high-rises, and all dwellings in general, since 1980.
Canadian Property Management
Landlords must certify requisite vaccinations
Commercial landlords will be expected to verify the vaccination status of building personnel, including contractors and subcontractors, who enter premises that the Canadian government leases.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Sask ends exemptions for smoke and CO alarms
Saskatchewan landlords and homeowners will have to install smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms in older residential buildings that were previously exempt. Enforcement begins July 1, 2022.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
LTC operational shortfalls bared in heatwave
Heatwave conditions and operational shortfalls are posing challenges in some Ontario long-term care homes that do not have central air conditioning.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Post-pandemic space configurations on view
Working with the furniture distributor, NUA Office, Colonnade BridgePort has developed a primer to help companies welcome back their workforces and acclimatize to new levels of awareness and concern about healthy indoor environments.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Indoor temperatures logged in Ontario LTC homes
There is still no requirement for air conditioning in all residents’ rooms, but Ontario long-term care home operators now have to implement prescribed measures to prevent heat-related illnesses.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Radiation cleanup crews to be offered payouts
Long overlooked cleanup crews have been offered compensatory payouts more than six decades after nuclear contamination incidents at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s Chalk River Laboratories.
Canadian Property Management
Pandemic propels healthy building momentum
COVID-19 has intensified pressure to support physical, social and emotional well-being within the built environment, but many investors, owners and managers were already embracing healthy building principles ahead of pandemic-triggered challenges.