Smart Buildings
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The rise of green buildings and the implications for cleaning services
In recent years, there has been a significant shift towards creating more sustainable buildings, also known as green buildings. Designed to minimize environmental impact, these
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Hygiene and happiness
Today’s facility managers are under mounting pressure to do more with less. Supply chain challenges, labour shortages, and Canadians’ increased expectations around cleanliness and hygiene
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Update your lighting system with LEDs
Sustainability continues to influence facility and maintenance managers’ decision-making. As more halogen and incandescent light bulbs are being banned from sale and removed from the
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Get smarter with your lighting
Managing smart buildings has become more common in recent years, with technology-based security, automation, AI, and more. Lighting is also evolving, and maintenance managers can
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
CondoBusiness
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.
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
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.
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.
Canadian Property Management
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.
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.
