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Green Button opens energy data channels

The Green Button standard could enable building owners and managers to access and share electricity, gas and water consumption data in a consistent format, regardless of jurisdiction.

Canadian Property Management

How to develop a telecom strategy for your site

With the evolution of data networks, cellular phones and smart devices driving demand for more infrastructure and technology among asset classes, properties are beginning to

Building Strategies & Sustainability

Flammable refrigerants spark safety research

Researchers consider safety issues as flammable refrigerants emerge as a low-GWP option.

Construction Business

Improving geoexchange systems

Geoexchange and heat pump technology is long established, with the first systems developed and implemented in the 1950s. With increasing awareness, improved equipment and industry

Building Strategies & Sustainability

Safety code tweaks allowable radiation levels

Health Canada adjusts some of its recommended thresholds for exposure to electromagnetic energy emitted from wireless communications

Building Strategies & Sustainability

Mining big energy data

Big energy data could guide conservation and demand management programs, but there are still privacy and standardization issues to resolve.

REMI Network

Survey reveals in-store mobile shopping habits

As traditional retailers look for ways to adapt to e-commerce competition, new research suggests shoppers are bringing online competition inside brick-and-motar stores. Market and consumer

Building Strategies & Sustainability

WTO pushes open trade in environmental goods

Canada is among the nations currently negotiating a trade agreement for environmental goods

REMI Network

Hydro Ottawa offers real-time energy monitor

Hydro Ottawa subsidiary Energy Ottawa Inc. is distributing a new web-based tool so commercial businesses and landlords can better identity building inefficiencies and energy waste.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Quebec data services centre nears completion

A new state-of-the-art Cogeco Data Services Centre is on track to open in Kirkland, Que. this spring. The 100,000-square foot facility will be the fifth Cogeco project of its kind in Canada, bringing the company’s total data centre capacity to over 200,000 square feet.

REMI Network

Innovation Centre planned for T.O. waterfront

Waterfront Toronto and Menkes Developments unveiled plans for a new, commercial innovation centre that will bring 2,000 employees to Toronto’s waterfront and create high-paying jobs

Construction Business

How video can improve construction site safety

Pretty much anything on a job site can and has been stolen. Do construction companies need high-tech security solutions to stop thieves and vandals? Read on to find out.

REMI Network

NRC restores online access to building codes

After a cyber-intrusion halted access to the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) codes and code guides online library, including national building, fire, plumbing, energy

Construction Business

Liquefied Natural Gas industry launches web tool

B.C. businesses have a new online tool to help them be ready to tap into the generational opportunities that will be driven by the Liquefied Natural Gas industry.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Unprecedented donation funds health care centre

The largest private Canadian health care donation ever made will help to fund the construction of the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research in Toronto, O.N. The $130-million donation, supplied by the Rogers family, will assist the development of the facility, which will specialize in individualized genomic medicine, tissue engineering and advanced cardiac care. An additional $139-million in funding will be supplied by SickKids, the University Health Network (UHN) and the University of Toronto (U of T).

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Factors influencing the evolving workplace

The 1970s and 1980s cubicle layout was something of an anomaly in the evolving workplace, says Doug Lucy, director of marketing, AgilQuest. Speaking in an

REMI Network

WaterTAP and AEC partner with China

As part of Premiere Kathleen Wynne’s trade mission to China, two Canadian environmental groups have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the China Energy