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commercial cleaning

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Commercial cleaning on a grand scale

With the heightened focus on hygiene and sanitation these last few years, what does commercial cleaning look like post-pandemic? Things have changed and the once
robots

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Robots gain momentum for commercial floor cleaning

In recent years, we’ve mostly heard about touchless technology dominating commercial cleaning, with things like traffic counters, automatic dispensers, sensored doors, and more, but part
ISSA

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

ISSA Show North America celebrates Innovation Award winners

The 2022 ISSA Innovation Award winners and honourees were announced on October 13 on the final day of the 2022 ISSA Show North America, held
Sodexo

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Sodexo launches North American-first innovation lab

The companies call the innovation start-up initiative the first program of its kind in North America.
ISSA Show North America

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Innovation Awards to honour advances in clean at ISSA Show North America 2022

The awards celebrate commercial, institutional, and residential cleaning companies that are addressing challenges with new products and services.
concept lab

Construction Business

Fast + Epp launches Concept Lab to push innovation

Fast + Epp has launched Concept Lab,  a 5,500 sq. ft. collaborative research and workshop space in the company's Vancouver home office.
Kimberly-Clark

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Kimberly-Clark unveils biggest tech innovation in over a decade

The company calls its new washroom dispensers the quietest on the market.
window cleaning

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Vancouver innovator wins award for window cleaning robot

An up-and-coming Vancouver entrepreneur has won an award in recognition of his work to develop a first-of-its-kind window cleaning robot.
McMaster Innovation Park

REMI Network

Mega plans for McMaster Innovation Park

Plans for a 2.5 million-square-foot expansion at McMaster Innovation Park include a life sciences 'megahub.'
Waste biomass generation tapped for tax credit

Canadian Property Management

Proptech qualifies for new Quebec tax credit

The tax credit applies on purchases of computer hardware, management software or manufacturing/processing equipment made before January 1, 2025.
deal-making functions

Canadian Apartment Magazine

Deal-making functions migrate to proptech

Survey respondents foresee technology-enabled multifamily co-living will be the most significant disruptor to the status quo, while trends like office co-working, retail brandbox and industrial flex space cause upheaval in the other property sectors.
breakthrough energy fund

Canadian Property Management

Buildings in mix for breakthrough energy fund

Clean energy developers may secure up to $3 million or 50 per cent of project costs for the advancement of manufacturing, electricity, transportation or buildings related innovations with the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Canadian Property Management

Building the Toronto of tomorrow

Toronto has long been a city open to innovation and change, whether it be culturally or technologically. It’s no surprise then that the city was chosen to take part in the Urban Pilot Program, or UPPlift, which aims to bridge the gap between emergent smart technologies and property managers to enhance a city’s liveability.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

New program supports low-carbon innovation in Ontario

GreenON, a new program from the Green Ontario Fund, is supporting industries to reduce GHG pollution from their facilities or manufacturing processes.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Cape Breton creative hub receives $5-mil federal investment

The federal government is investing $5 million to help create the Cape Breton Centre for Arts, Culture and Innovation, a new creative hub located in Sydney, N.S.

REMI Network

Tech hub hopes federal budget will boost smart city innovation

Toronto’s innovation community has high hopes that Wednesday’s federal budget will earmark money for smart city innovation.

REMI Network

Former Guelph hotel to become multi-use tech hub

Plans will transform a former 19th century hotel in downtown Guelph, Ontario, into a digital marketing tech hub and innovation centre.