Sustainability
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Sustainable ice and snow management for your building
As the weather gets cooler and winter creeps closer, it’s time to think about ice and snow management for your building. In the past, many
Canadian Property Management
KingSett a global leader as GRESB uptake swells
In 2022, 1,820 real estate entities, collectively holding assets valued at USD $7 trillion, reported to the GRESB benchmark on 60 ESG indicators across 14 components of activity.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ISSA Show North America celebrates Innovation Award winners
The 2022 ISSA Innovation Award winners and honourees were announced on October 13 on the final day of the 2022 ISSA Show North America, held
Canadian Property Management
QuadReal steps up decarbonization pace
QuadReal Property Group pledges to achieve a 50 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across its global portfolio over the next seven to eight years as a step toward net-zero by 2050.
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".
