These floors are an attractive and popular choice for many facilities and can last a long time - but only with adequate maintenance.

Schools should implement these layered prevention strategies to mitigate the risks of COVID infection or transmission to the school community and beyond.

With increasing digitalization and pressures on operating costs and infection control, AGV systems will play a more significant role in the hospital setting.

The real estate and property management industries may face particular hurdles with respect to implementing the proposed disconnecting from work policy.

Through the doors of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, the first hospital to ever rise in Vaughan, Ontario, life’s health challenges are met with comfort, safety and lots of natural light.

Every team should create a checklist, and then continually review their internal systems—floor by floor—to reveal any possible failure points.

As employees eventually return to the office, most will bring with them a heightened sensitivity to their surroundings—specifically to what they touch and their proximity to coworkers.

Newly released guidelines offer a standard for approaching the planning and designing of healthcare facilities from a resiliency perspective.

With fire equipment, the biggest culprit for non-compliance issues usually involves obstructions blocking fire extinguishers and hoses from view.

The pandemic is pushing people to reconsider their post-work-life ambitions.

With roof materials and replacement costs rising, the importance of maintaining a roof to prolong its service life cannot be understated.

Recognizing the dangers of combustible dust accumulations will help to ensure the prevention of explosions.

Ontario’s civic building inventory has fallen the farthest behind on capital repair among seven categories of municipal infrastructure assets scrutinized in a newly released report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario.

Open communication from management and staff will be key to normalizing new and fast-evolving cleaning procedures.

Yorkdale is the latest Canadian facility to achieve the certification, which indicates that best infection prevention practices are in place.

Commercial cleaning company OpenWorks offers advice for reopening facilities.

Pre-pandemic, this had been hiding under the radar of technological innovation.