Sustainability
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Does your facility have an EV plan?
As electric vehicle use grows more popular each year for company fleets, delivery, and personal use, an EV plan can help you assess and address
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Waste Reduction Week tied to bigger picture
Circular Economy Month will continue to emphasize the three Rs of reduce, reuse and recycle, while targeting the further goals of waste elimination, resource protection and environmental restoration.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ISSA Show North America 2022 to go fully sustainable
The 2022 show, which is being held October 10-13 in Chicago, will be powered using 100 per cent renewable electricity.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Health care facilities earn green accolades
The annual benchmarking exercise tracks energy and water savings, waste reduction, pollution prevention and environmental leadership in four different categories of health care facilities.
Construction Business
New family housing opens on SFU campus
Simon Fraser University (SFU) has opened two purpose-built, sustainably designed family housing at its Burnaby Mountain campus.
Construction Business
Vancouver Convention Centre LEED recertified
The Vancouver Convention Centre has recertified its West Building as LEED Platinum – maintaining its double LEED Platinum status.
Canadian Property Management
Operational resilience a performance priority
New technical guidance for assessing and responding to building-level risk underscores that operations teams carry responsibility to safeguard occupants, facilitate business continuity and protect asset value.
Canadian Property Management
Global heat pump market set for robust growth
The anticipated 5.8 per cent annual growth is attributed to rapid urbanization and demand for green, energy-efficient building performance.
Canadian Property Management
Consistent data for ESG reporting still elusive
OSCRE International is targeting the asset-level information increasingly needed for ESG reporting and compliance through its new environmental data standards project.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Corporate sustainability challenges – and how to overcome them
Sustainability today is more than just tracking emissions and reducing consumption.
REMI Network
Vancouver approves historic land-use strategy
After almost three years of extensive public engagement, Vancouver City Council approved the first city-wide land-use strategy to make way for a more affordable and sustainable city.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Green Seal bans all PFAS in cleaning products
PFAS chemicals can be so resistant to degradation that they could persist for hundreds of years; hence their nickname of "forever chemicals".
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ISSA forms new Sustainability Council
ISSA "realizes there is a significant need to take a leading role in the cleaning industry to assist ISSA members with their sustainability efforts".
Canadian Facility Management & Design
CAGBC updates zero carbon design standard
The Canada Green Building Council is aiming to simplify the criteria for complying with its zero carbon design standard, while also pushing forward with more rigorous performance goals.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Citric acid: a sustainable cleaning solution?
Made from citrus fruits such as lemons, limes, and even pineapples, these products have been used safely for centuries.
Canadian Property Management
Brookfield eager to deploy decarbonization fund
More than a hundred institutional investors worldwide have put up capital for what’s now the world’s largest private fund targeting investments aligned with achieving net-zero carbon.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Employees expect environmentally friendly offices
Six in 10 workers surveyed feel their office is "shamefully eco-unfriendly"
