Sustainability
Canadian Property Management
Clean capitalism delivers added client value
Anna Murray, Ailey Roberts and Puninda Thind of BentallGreenOak's sustainability team have been named to the Canada Clean50 for 2020.
Design Quarterly
ASHRAE LowDown Showdown models resilience
Designs for a hypothetical new 90,000-square-foot City Hall in San Diego, California, were evaluated for energy performance, innovation and the collaborative effectiveness of team members.
Canadian Property Management
Climate change procrastinators urged to act
The mounting consequences of being stuck fast in the wrong place for an extended wrong time begin with soaring insurance premiums and end with stranded assets.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily assets round out Canadian GRESB data
Among global regions, Australia/New Zealand once again attained this year's top average score, but reports no asset-level energy intensity or building certification data for multifamily properties.
Canadian Property Management
GRESB gets lift from ESG tailwind
Major Canadian players figure among both GRESB investor members with full access to the data and the larger complement of management members that report and are benchmarked through the real estate assessment.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Quebec’s HFC prohibition dates called untimely
Proposed revisions to Quebec's halocarbon regulation could sideline some commonly used refrigerants before alternatives with lower global warming potential can feasibly be in place.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian health care delivers climate champions
More than 190 health care organizations collectively represent 17,500 hospitals and related facilities in 28 countries that have signed on to the global effort to improve the sector's resiliency and reduce its environmental footprint.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian pension funds look to GRESB guidance
Oxford Properties Group and Ivanhoé Cambridge have been benchmarked atop their North American peers in the 2019 GRESB Real Estate Assessment, which this year plotted the ESG performance of 1,005 companies, funds and REITs worldwide.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
ACI launches Our Future Is Clean campaign
The new campaign will launch during National Cleaning Week, March 22 through March 28, 2020.
Canadian Property Management
1 Hotel announces Canadian debut
1 Hotel Toronto is set to open summer 2020.
Canadian Property Management
Saddledome demolition plan bucks transparency
The upfront cost has been projected at $13.8 million. The environmental repercussions of dismantling and discarding a 474,000-square-foot concrete and steel structure are more difficult to peg.
Canadian Property Management
Brookfield’s green preferred units “on trend”
Brookfield Property Partners is targeting USD $250 million to invest in green certified buildings and upgrades through the issuance of 10 million perpetual green preferred units.
Canadian Property Management
Carbon pricing reappears on Ontario gas bills
Carbon pricing has been reinstated on Ontario's natural gas bills 10 months after utilities were instructed to remove the levy that the provincial government has been seeking to quash.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Retrofit fund draws on carbon pricing revenue
Grants of up to $250,000 are available to small business operators in New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan for energy-saving and emission-reducing building retrofit projects.
Design Quarterly
Order of Canada honourees grace buildings sector
Donald Schmitt, Principal with Diamond Schmitt Architects, and Raymond Cole, Professor Emeritus at University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, are among 83 new appointments announced prior to Canada Day.
Canadian Property Management
Darryl Boyce launches term as ASHRAE president
In keeping with ASHRAE tradition, Boyce has a chosen a theme for his leadership tenure: Building for people and performance. Achieving operational excellence.
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.




