Maintenance
REMI Network
Power failure tips for high-rise condo owners
A crane hit a high-voltage transmission line in Toronto in August and caused thousands of condo owners to lose power for a prolonged period of time. Here are some tips to ensure high-rises are ready for the next power failure.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
How flooring can spark student learning
Designers and facility managers seeking to create the ideal educational space for students face no small undertaking.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Halifax boosts storm damage cleanup capacity
Halifax Regional Municipality is opening eight temporary debris depots and doubling the allowable limit for yard waste disposal in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
How to set your janitors up for success
Janitors are often the behind-the-scenes heroes of facility maintenance, keeping everything clean, stocked, and sanitized. They support health and safety and hygiene and they’re often
REMI Network
How to prepare your facility for fall pests
As temperatures drop, buildings are vulnerable to pests looking for food and shelter from the outdoor elements.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Quebec updates rules for handling asbestos
Removal of drywall with asbestos compounds in the joint-filler has been reclassified from a low-risk to moderate-risk activity.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario adds jobsite safety oversight options
Numerous references to “professional engineers” have been replaced solely with the word “engineers” within nine of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety regulations.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Alliance targets women for cooling sector jobs
The International Network for Women in Cooling brings together the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) OzonAction and 11 industry associations, worldwide.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Why clean indoor air must be made a priority
Keeping in mind the tangible benefits of ensuring clean indoor air in your facility is crucial to providing a safer and cleaner environment.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario disburses electrician training funds
The $13 million funding allocation is an effort to steer more apprentice and journeyperson electricians to construction, maintenance and network cabling jobs.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Canadian school districts build for healthier environments
The schools installed future-ready infrastructure improvements for healthier, more sustainable learning environments.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario not sticking with plate renewal fees
The Ontario government will eliminate its license plate sticker system for passenger and light-duty vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds, and forego the associated revenue.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario may relax squeeze on storage sheds
A proposed regulatory change would allow storage sheds to be 50 per cent bigger before Ontario property owners would have to obtain building permits.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Robots rise to meet challenges facing hospitals
With increasing digitalization and pressures on operating costs and infection control, AGV systems will play a more significant role in the hospital setting.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
The need-to-know about using ice melt
While it's a common winter solution, there are several things that ice melt users need to be aware of.
REMI Network
Ensuring smoke control systems are working correctly
The first and most critical step is for corporations to determine whether they have a smoke control system maintenance and testing procedure document in place.
Canadian Property Management
Garbage chute decommissioning stalls in Toronto
A new report to Toronto City Council reveals that just 24 permits to allow the sealing of garbage chutes have been issued to multi-residential landlords over the past 12 years.
