Innovation

ISSA Show North America

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.
concept lab

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.
Kimberly-Clark

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.
window cleaning

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.
McMaster Innovation Park

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.'
Waste biomass generation tapped for tax credit

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.
deal-making functions

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.
breakthrough energy fund

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.