Before ASHRAE Standard 241, there were no specific standards for the control of infectious aerosols in our indoor environments.

A new set of standards defines minimum sustainability criteria for high-volume materials used in architecture and interior projects.

The tension between employees’ desire to work fluidly and the need for predictability within a business is a key factor affecting workplaces around the world.

Canada’s top commercial real estate players have identified the growing importance of visualizing indoor building activities in real time as the use of space becomes less predictable and tenant needs evolve.

Here are some key ingredients to accomplishing meaningful impacts with teams and stakeholders in facility management.

Over the next three months, Canderel will begin rolling out a workplace hospitality program called Okkto across its buildings.

Facility managers are now sitting at the boardroom table, participating in discussions and strategy focused on the future of work and the organizational purpose of the workplace.

A discussion earlier this year gleaned perspectives from women executives on how they promote the FM industry.

Innovation in digital twin technology— virtual representations of physical objects—has the potential to create operationally rich, continuous data feeds across workplace, asset, and inventory systems.

Recycling tends to take all the glory and centre-stage of sustainability narratives in the media. Garbage, on the other hand, is a significant problem that is rarely discussed.

Nordstrom Canada’s sudden swoosh into the department store drain will leave empty anchor space in some of the country’s top-performing and most prestigious regional malls.

The social infrastructure of the office underscores new research-driven analysis that measures shifts in employee sentiment post-pandemic.

A pressing issue facing facility managers is the crucial impact that barrier-free accessibility can have on a strategic renewal plan.

Overhauling Manulife’s Canadian head office in Waterloo transformed into an even more significant project than previously intended.

While the deadline to prepare the policy was October 11, 2022, it is better late than never to get an electronic monitoring policy in place.

In the past, cleaning suppliers, landscapers, and pest control companies dominated FM shows. Not anymore.

As pandemic protocols begin to wane, FMs must continue to shine and maintain the profile they earned and the renewed relationships built and established throughout the past two-plus years.