Environmental Management
Canadian Apartment Magazine
BOMA BEST criteria introduce multifamily tweaks
Landlords and condominium corporations participating in the BOMA BEST environmental performance benchmarking and certification program will have to comply with an expanded list of best practices.
REMI Network
Reaching net zero in the age of COVID-19
Optimizing ventilation and air handling systems is key to achieving net zero energy performance goals.
Canadian Property Management
Deal makers might avoid needless FOI requests
A proposed digital channel for submitting property-related information requests to Ontario's Ministry of the Environment would offer an alternative to the current paper-based submission of Freedom of Information requests.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Sluggish radon testing decried in New Brunswick
At the current pace, New Brunswick Auditor General Kim Adair-MacPherson calculates it will take nearly 23 years to complete radon testing in the provincial public housing portfolio.
Canadian Property Management
TCFD appears embedded in accountability Act
Newly tabled federal legislation would commit the Canadian government to set five-year targets and report progress in reaching the stated goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
FireSmart measures begin with maintenance
About 11 million people currently reside in Canada's wildland-urban interface areas, enjoying the benefits of proximity to forests and other natural features, but perhaps overlooking the perils.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Montreal office building afoul of PCB regulations
A Montreal holding company pleaded guilty and was fined $260,000 for failing to comply after environmental enforcement officers ordered the disposal of a transformer.
Construction Business
Provinces pursue plug-and-play nuclear power
Alberta joins Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick to support the technology, which allows reactors to be built in a factory location then transported to and installed in a host generating facility.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Beware the risks of cleaning chemical mishaps
Some basic chemistry lessons should be reiterated: any mixture of bleach with ammonia-containing or acid-containing products will produce a toxic reaction.
REMI Network
Assitive tools released ahead of foam container ban
The City of Vancouver has launched toolkits to help businesses find recyclable and compostable alternatives to foam containers
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Makers of discredited firefighting foams sued
The suit seeks to hold the companies liable for contamination that the chemical formulas, PFOS and PFOA, caused to soil and water in the vicinity of four airports in New York State.
Canadian Property Management
Carbon pricing hailed as a boost to retrofits
Dismantling Ontario's cap-and-trade system would be a setback for the commercial real estate sector and the many trades and professions it employs, one of its prominent industry organizations maintains.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Mississauga facility achieves its zero waste goals
The Toronto distribution centre for Cintas, a business supplies provider, became Canada’s second facility to earn TRUE Zero Waste certification last fall.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Humber College: Beacon of Knowledge
Spencer Wood of Humber College leads the facilities management department in a quest to reduce the school’s carbon footprint.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
A healthy case for maintaining synthetic grass
New plant-based innovations in synthetic grass respond to changing forces in the market like changing weather patterns and wellbeing.
CondoBusiness
Toronto cracks down on waste contamination
The City of Toronto is cracking down on bylaw infractions concerning the co-mingling of garbage and recycling in bins put out for municipal pick-up at multi-residential properties.
REMI Network
LEED registered projects in Canada now exceed one billion square feet
The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) says LEED registered projects in Canada now total more than one billion square feet.
