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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Facility maintenance: there’s an app for that

Whether you are managing assets or planning your maintenance schedules, technology has emerged to make maintenance managers’ lives easier. As smart buildings become more popular,
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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

How smart buildings affect commercial cleaners

With technology constantly improving building operations, how have these changes affected commercial cleaners and their work? Smart buildings use technology to gain valuable data, helping
ASHB now carries banner for smart connectivity

Canadian Property Management

ASHB now carries banner for smart connectivity

The Continental Automated Buildings Association will now be known as the Association for Smarter Homes and Buildings (ASHB), with a continued mandate to promote technologies for connectivity and efficient operations.
5G rollout could bring clutter of antennas

Canadian Facility Management & Design

5G rollout could bring clutter of antennas

Making buildings smarter could force some aesthetic trade-offs in commercial buildings as 5G services begin arriving on the mid-band and high-band of the spectrum.
Ron Zimmer completes 23-year tenure with CABA

Canadian Property Management

Ron Zimmer completes 23-year tenure with CABA

After presiding during an era of phenomenal growth in smart technologies, Ron Zimmer is retiring as president and chief executive officer of the Continental Automated Buildings Association.

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Manage your properties worry-free

When an emergency strikes, having a quick and efficient course of action to reduce the severity of the impact can protect residents’ lives, belongings, and your property.

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Manage your properties worry-free

When an emergency strikes, having a quick and efficient course of action to reduce the severity of the impact can protect tenants’ lives, belongings, and your property.
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Canadian Property Management

Manage your properties worry-free

As a property manager, your days are filled with time-consuming tasks, and on top of this, you are responsible for your tenants’ safety and wellbeing
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REMI Network

BOMA Canada pilots smart buildings certification

This certification sets a global standard for how smart buildings are measured, while also providing users with a roadmap to drive further asset enhancement and investment.
Building an organic smart building from the bottom up could be easier than a top-down model

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Open protocols could nurture organic smart city

Abandonment of the Sidewalk Labs project proposed for Toronto is unfortunate, but it serves as an important lesson that building a smart city from the top down is hard.
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Smart buildings harnessed for pandemic response

While climate change may have slipped somewhat from people’s consciousness and priorities right now, it’s noteworthy that the pandemic and climate crises are both problems of exponential growth against a limited capacity to cope.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

How to make buildings truly “smart”

We all hear a lot about smart buildings, but when you look at the data, it seems that most buildings are as dull-witted as ever.
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Canadian Facility Management & Design

Green, smart workplaces to attract FM talent

New technologies, demographic shifts, and sustainable solutions top the facility management trends to watch in 2019, according to a Sodexo report.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Want more smart buildings? Amp up the collaboration

“Smart technologies are defined by their interconnectedness,” points out a recent ACEEE report on smart building markets. The companies that buy and sell them, however, are defined by their disconnectedness.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Smart building retrofits: What’s holding you back?

As building owners and facilities teams consider upgrading to smart building infrastructure, here are three broad scenarios that may be holding them back.

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Current, powered by GE sold to AIP

General Electric (GE) has completed the sale of its intelligent environments company, Current, powered by GE, to American Industrial Partners (AIP).
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Canadian Property Management

21st century grid heralds a new energy future

Data will be the golden key in the new energy future, and any company with an interest in data is already thinking about this energy future.