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.

The quality of life awaiting future residents within the country’s institutional-like care facilities is facing scrutiny as researchers closely examine how these spaces are being reimagined for the better.

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.

Library and Archives Canada’s new preservation storage facility opened as the first net-zero carbon archival centre in the Americas,

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.

As part of a biennial review and benchmarking of Canada’s economic performance, a new OECD report looks at progress toward the interim 2030 target and 2050 goal for net-zero carbon emissions.

The adaptive re-use project relocates Meaford Public Library from an inaccessible three-storey building to a one-storey facility.

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.

Low-cost investments and practical adjustments to the configuration of fixtures could improve safety, convenience and assurance for people with disabilities.

A new oversight regime for Ontario’s elevators and escalators will come into force on March 1, bringing shorter timelines for rectifying an extensive list of designated high-risk deficiencies.

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.