Schools
Canadian Facility Management & Design
54 renovated schools to re-open in Ontario this fall
A total of 54 new or renovated schools will open in communities across Ontario in the coming months, providing better learning spaces for years to come.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Better infection prevention needed in schools
Infection prevention and control, while taken seriously in healthcare settings, isn’t always a priority in educational facilities.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario schools to receive $1.4 bil for upgrades
Ontario is investing a total of $1.4 billion in 2017-18 to improve school buildings by repairing and upgrading elements such as roofs, flooring and plumbing systems.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Infrastructure projects to get underway this summer
Construction on hundreds of infrastructure projects across Ontario will get underway this summer, including hospitals, schools, transit projects and roads.
REMI Network
Five high-touch areas in schools and sanitation tips
Cleaning and maintaining schools involves a careful look at several high-touch areas prone to germs. Here are some sanitation tips.
REMI Network
Support staff in Windsor, Ont. schools vote to strike
Support staff at the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board voted to support a strike.
REMI Network
Poor IAQ a concern in elementary schools
Poor indoor air quality and the humidity in public elementary school classrooms is having an increasingly negative impact on learning and school safety.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Planning green cleaning programs in schools
Educational facilities are embracing green cleaning programs, where such use is pertinent because children are more vulnerable to environmental exposures.
REMI Network
Northern Ont. schools get $300-mill for repairs
Ontario is investing $300 million over the next two years to repair schools across Northern Ontario.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
How custodians can prep before students return
August is especially busy for custodians who have to begin preparing healthy and clean school before students return.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario invests in renewing school buildings
Ontario is investing $1.1 billion to repair and renew schools across the province to ensure they remain safe and modern spaces for students to learn.
REMI Network
Six Toronto schools to green outdoor spaces
Six more schools in downtown Toronto will be greening their outdoor spaces this year, thanks to PortsToronto and the Evergreen's Children's Program.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario to invest $498-mil in schools, child care
Ontario is investing $498 million to build new schools, renovate existing schools and build new child care spaces to give families more options for licensed child
Building Strategies & Sustainability
GTA school named earth’s greenest for 2015
After capturing the Canadian title in 2014, Dunbarton High School in Pickering, Ontario, has been named the greenest school on earth for 2015.
