Innovation
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Innovation Awards to honour advances in clean at ISSA Show North America 2022
The awards celebrate commercial, institutional, and residential cleaning companies that are addressing challenges with new products and services.
Construction Business
Fast + Epp launches Concept Lab to push innovation
Fast + Epp has launched Concept Lab, a 5,500 sq. ft. collaborative research and workshop space in the company's Vancouver home office.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Kimberly-Clark unveils biggest tech innovation in over a decade
The company calls its new washroom dispensers the quietest on the market.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Vancouver innovator wins award for window cleaning robot
An up-and-coming Vancouver entrepreneur has won an award in recognition of his work to develop a first-of-its-kind window cleaning robot.
REMI Network
Mega plans for McMaster Innovation Park
Plans for a 2.5 million-square-foot expansion at McMaster Innovation Park include a life sciences 'megahub.'
Canadian Property Management
Proptech qualifies for new Quebec tax credit
The tax credit applies on purchases of computer hardware, management software or manufacturing/processing equipment made before January 1, 2025.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Deal-making functions migrate to proptech
Survey respondents foresee technology-enabled multifamily co-living will be the most significant disruptor to the status quo, while trends like office co-working, retail brandbox and industrial flex space cause upheaval in the other property sectors.
Canadian Property Management
Buildings in mix for breakthrough energy fund
Clean energy developers may secure up to $3 million or 50 per cent of project costs for the advancement of manufacturing, electricity, transportation or buildings related innovations with the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Canadian Property Management
Building the Toronto of tomorrow
Toronto has long been a city open to innovation and change, whether it be culturally or technologically. It’s no surprise then that the city was chosen to take part in the Urban Pilot Program, or UPPlift, which aims to bridge the gap between emergent smart technologies and property managers to enhance a city’s liveability.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New program supports low-carbon innovation in Ontario
GreenON, a new program from the Green Ontario Fund, is supporting industries to reduce GHG pollution from their facilities or manufacturing processes.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Cape Breton creative hub receives $5-mil federal investment
The federal government is investing $5 million to help create the Cape Breton Centre for Arts, Culture and Innovation, a new creative hub located in Sydney, N.S.
REMI Network
Tech hub hopes federal budget will boost smart city innovation
Toronto’s innovation community has high hopes that Wednesday’s federal budget will earmark money for smart city innovation.
REMI Network
Former Guelph hotel to become multi-use tech hub
Plans will transform a former 19th century hotel in downtown Guelph, Ontario, into a digital marketing tech hub and innovation centre.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Framery Q wins Innovation Award from IIDEXCanada
Framery Q, a soundproof meeting pod that can accommodate up to four users, has won the Gold Innovation Award at IIDEXCanada.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Calgary high school named Greenest School in Canada
The Career and Technology Centre at Lord Shaughnessy High School in Calgary, Alta., was named winner of CaGBC's Greenest School in Canada 2016 competition.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Mackenzie Health partners with Sodexo Canada to expand IT systems
Mackenzie Health’s Innovation Institute is partnering with Sodexo Canada to expand the interconnectivity of its IT systems to improve health care through greater flexibility.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Diamond Schmitt redesigns McMaster facility
Diamond Schmitt plans to renovate and equip 20,000 square feet within the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre to accommodate engineering facilities.