Technology
Construction Business
Construction predictions for 2021
With construction projects challenged as a result of the pandemic, many companies are reimagining their business models.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
The rise of the hybrid office
Ultimately, the hybrid office will have at its heart a planning principle based on people rotating in and out of the office, with flexible schedules they have more control over than ever.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Enhancing hospitality cleaning and safety solutions
The instruments are out there to enhance hygiene, and foodservice and hospitality cleaning is a perfect microcosm.
Canadian Property Management
Five-year gains buttress tech talent hubs
Nearly 900,000 workers in technology sector positions comprise about 5.6 per cent of the Canadian labour force and are making their presence felt in the real estate markets of large and mid-sized cities alike.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Making data-driven decisions to cut energy losses
Retrofits to remedy energy losses through the building envelope are sometimes based on assumptions and uncertainty.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The science behind contaminant vapour barrier systems
REGENESIS CEO Scott Wilson spotlights how contaminant vapour barriers work to offer much safer and healthier built environments.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Productivity cannot be forced
As the second wave of COVID-19 hits, building managers have a responsibility to provide a safe environment for their clients and tenants.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian developers navigate uncertainty
The bulk of findings in the newly released Altus Group Global Property Development Trends Report are tied to opinions collected in early 2020 before COVID-19’s full hit landed in the world’s commercial real estate markets.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Edge computing centres put a cloud in a cabinet
Seen as the next big thing in data services, small hubs located near end-users are also more vulnerable to the encroaching outdoor environment than are vast temperature-controlled data centres.
REMI Network
How to run glitch-free virtual meetings?
Virtual meetings are one way condo corporations are balancing social distancing with the need to conduct ongoing business, but they aren't without technical glitches.
Construction Business
Electrical equipment conglomerate to divest
The Competition Bureau negotiated the terms of agreement to address concerns that one company would gain predominant market share, driving up prices for key components of electricity transmission/distribution systems and telecommunications networks.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Going touch-free in a collaborative workplace
Touch-free technology to help limit the spread of infection is now seen in almost every area of a workplace, not just washrooms.
Design Quarterly
DIRTT promotes pre-fabricated construction
DIRTT Environmental Solutions has launched Make Space for Possibilities. The advocacy campaign demonstrates the benefits of pre-fabricated construction.
REMI Network
Most Canadians support digital contact tracing
A new report from Ryerson University found the majority of Canadians support using a mandatory contact tracing app to go to work or take public transit.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Equinix stretches its Canadian digital reach
The $1.04 billion deal will see Equinix acquire 13 data centres and more than 600 Bell customers from BCE Inc.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Open protocols could nurture organic smart city
Abandonment of the Sidewalk Labs project proposed for Toronto is unfortunate, but it serves as an important lesson that building a smart city from the top down is hard.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Nova Scotia scurries to expand internet coverage
COVID-19 has prompted accelerated delivery of high-speed internet to some overlooked or underserviced areas of Nova Scotia.







