Sustainability
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Trades innovation centre wins top honours at Prairie Wood Design Awards
Lethbridge College’s Trades Technologies Renewal and Innovation Project (TTRIP) received top honours at the Prairie Wood Design Awards in the institutional building category.
REMI Network
Kitchener appoints first sustainability officer
The City of Kitchener has created a sustainability office and named Claire Bennett as its first sustainability officer.
REMI Network
Oslo airport campus to be energy-positive
Plans for the 260-acre site are aligned with the Norwegian government's commitment to shift to a low-carbon economy.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Mississauga facility achieves its zero waste goals
The Toronto distribution centre for Cintas, a business supplies provider, became Canada’s second facility to earn TRUE Zero Waste certification last fall.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario offers funds for low-carbon innovation
Ontario-based companies and organizations will have until May 7, 2018 to submit their concepts to the newly announced GreenON Challenge.
Construction Business
EllisDon selected for YVR CORE program
EllisDon has been selected to provide construction management services for the CORE Program at Vancouver International Airport.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Options for handling forgotten waste areas
There are now several options that help facilities proactively address issues related to forgotten and ignored waste areas.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Little oversight of high-GWP anesthetic gases
Anesthetics commonly used in medical, dental and veterinary surgery have global warming potential ranging from 130 to 2,540 times greater than carbon dioxide, but are largely overlooked when greenhouse gas emissions are officially tallied.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Study finds companies unprepared for new energy economy
A new study released by Schneider Electric finds that most organizations feel prepared for a decentralized, decarbonized and digitized future, but many of those companies
REMI Network
Program plugs electric vehicle use in workplaces
A new program is offering employers, commercial building owners and managers incentives to install electric vehicle charging stations at workplaces in Ontario.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario to reinvest energy savings into patient care
Ontario is investing $64 million this year in the Hospital Energy Efficiency Program, which will help hospitals save energy and encourage the use of more renewable energy technologies.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Single-use professional sports venues falter
Ottawa and Calgary are two current Canadian examples where pressure is mounting to abandon major arenas still far from the end of their structural life cycles and build anew.
REMI Network
USGBC releases LEED in Motion: Transportation report
Study focuses on industry growth in the green building sector for transportation facilities like airport terminal buildings bus centers and more.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian GRESB participants close gap to leaders
Eighteen Canadian real estate organizations undertook the rigorous reporting exercise, which plots portfolio-wide ESG (environmental, social, governance) intent, practices and outcomes, and collectively achieved an average score of 70 out of a possible 100 points.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Maintenance deemed a portal to innovation
Senior real estate executives reflected on evolving building technology as part of the kick-off to BOMEX 2017, earlier this fall in Toronto.
REMI Network
Amber Trails Community School in Winnipeg named Greenest School in Canada
Amber Trails Community School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the winner of the annual CaGBC Greenest School in Canada competition.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Labeling change targets food waste
The terms “sell by” and “use by” are likely to be replaced on labeling with the new, voluntary term “best if used by” on many food products.





