Risk Management
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Know your way around indoor air quality improvement
Controlling indoor air quality is vital to reducing infection risk and improving health and safety in any facility.
Construction Business
Contract bonds offer low cost guarantee
Contract bonds offer a low cost guarantee, usually costing less than a one per cent premium on the subcontractor’s contract amount.
REMI Network
Survey flags cybersecurity ignorance among Canadians
Some hotspot providers quietly track millions of users’ whereabouts even after they have left the establishment.
Canadian Property Management
GRESB validates real estate’s ESG credentials
Canadian participants accounted for less than 3 per cent of the entire GRESB database in 2021, but make up nearly 5 per cent of the 5-star cohort, which achieved the top 20 per cent of scores through the assessment.
REMI Network
Sustainability disclosure centered in Montreal
Montreal and Frankfurt will serve as host cities for the newly forged International Sustainability Standards Board, tasked with developing global disclosure standards to guide investors and capital markets.
CondoBusiness
Multifamily fire risk factors evolve over time
The combination of improved suppression and ignition source depletion has reduced the risk of fire-related fatalities within residential high-rises, and all dwellings in general, since 1980.
Canadian Property Management
Environmental mishaps herald personal liability
Personal liability is a mounting possibility for directors, officers and supervisors of organizations that run afoul of environmental regulators or are on the losing side of civil litigation.
Canadian Property Management
Pandemic paperwork piles up with new protocols
Pandemic paperwork is becoming more voluminous for commercial landlords as a growing list of influential tenants ask for proof that building personnel have two valid COVID-19 vaccinations.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Building well-rounded vaccination policies
A smart risk management strategy includes two distinct vaccination policies to seperately address employees and tenant use of non-essential amenities.
CondoBusiness
Security, privacy and the rise of smart homes
What security and privacy threats should condo communities watch out for due to the rise of internet-connected smart home devices?
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Why dusting is hazard protection, not just housekeeping
Recognizing the dangers of combustible dust accumulations will help to ensure the prevention of explosions.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Re-visiting office ergonomics for a safe return
For employees transitioning daily between different workstations, management may want to standardize equipment so employees can easily learn how to adjust equipment and not have to relearn each workstation type.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Risk assessment for the pandemic’s late stages
A three-minute assessment exercise helps users identify and minimize exposure risks at a time when rules are changing, more people are returning to public venues and it is not easily apparent who has been fully vaccinated.
Canadian Property Management
Pandemic relief defrays Ontario insolvencies
Low interest rates, flexibility to defer payments and various government-funded programs synergized into what are characterized as “exceptional” circumstances in a recessionary period.
Canadian Property Management
Real estate opts for simple computer passwords
Analysis of more than 162,000 publicly reported data breaches at major real estate firms finds that “password”, “123456” and some variation of a company’s name are ensconced favourites.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Self-isolation centres get funding injection
The initiative ties in with Ontario’s high-priority community strategy, which earmarks designated neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa for a targeted intensified response to COVID-19.
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.
