Technology
Canadian Apartment Magazine
WiredScore introduces multifamily certification
The third-party certifier of digital connectivity in commercial buildings is launching a similar program for the North American multifamily sector.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Canadian proptech ventures groomed for growth
The U.S. National Association of Realtors is searching the Canadian market for promising technologies for the commercial and residential real estate sectors.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Automatic floor scrubbers continue surging growth
These tools have become increasingly popular and useful for facility managers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
How to optimize building technology management
Leveraging appropriate service technology and integrated service tools can ensure buildings are safe and properly maintained.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Pandemic intensifies evolving role of FM
Facility managers are no longer viewed as a back-office function, but rather “a strategic instrument to attract and retain talent and create a great experience,”
Canadian Property Management
Real estate opts for simple computer passwords
Analysis of more than 162,000 publicly reported data breaches at major real estate firms finds that “password”, “123456” and some variation of a company’s name are ensconced favourites.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Updating your property management toolkit
Chad Guziewicz, Co-founder of Rentify, shares four property management practices that can be easily improved using new technologies.
Canadian Property Management
Cogeneration systems to lose tax enticement
The 2021 federal budget adds some clean energy equipment to immediately qualify for accelerated capital cost allowance, and names various combined heat and power applications to be delisted after 2023.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Life sciences growth potential flagged
Real estate analysts point to burgeoning momentum in Canada’s strong research institutions, increasing calls for domestic production capacity and the STEM job creation engine.
Construction Business
City of Terrace takes building permits online
The City of Terrace will be able to process building permits and complete building inspections online with rollout expected by spring 2021.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
How FMs can leverage data in 2021
IoT platforms that use overhead sensors, booking data, and smartphone space-reservations to pull analytics, are increasingly playing a key role in supporting the growing data-driven workplace.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Facility managers turn to augmented reality
Nearly three-quarters (73 per cent) of surveyed facility managers expect to implement AR technology over the next two years.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Manitoba Hydro nixes international consulting
The move will shift domestic elements of the engineering, utility management, high voltage and telecommunication business units back into Manitoba Hydro’s fold and cede the global marketplace to other competitors.
REMI Network
Adapt today, optimize tomorrow
Four solutions for a smarter, safer, and cleaner building as cleaning and maintenance is reinvented.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario supporting air-monitoring technology
Ontario is funding CEM Specialties Inc. (CEMSI) to help commercialize and accelerate production of its air-monitoring COVID-19 detector.
Construction Business
Improving construction safety with technology
How can companies use technology to increase safety on their job sites moving into the future? Here are some digital tools available.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Manitoba aims to elevate waste diversion rates
A provincial review and public consultation has been launched to seek input on current industry-funded stewardship programs and potential new recycling and recovery technologies.
