Back to Basics: Pay Attention to 5 Pest Hot Spots in Your Facilities

Back to Basics: Pay Attention to 5 Pest Hot Spots in Your Facilities

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important but possibly overlooked information facilities management professionals should know.  Now that we are in the middle of summer with warmer temperatures as the norm, you might have noticed pests entering your facility. But where are they coming in, you might ask? More than just a nuisance,…

Lester Senior Living’s Independent and Assisted Living Community Spaces Re-Imagined

Lester Senior Living’s Independent and Assisted Living Community Spaces Re-Imagined

The Whippany, New Jersey campus updates include a café/reading room, a dining room and a cinema. For nearly nine years, DIGroup Architecture (DIG) has been partnering with Jewish Community Housing Corp. (JCHC) and Lester Senior Living management to reimagine its senior living spaces with the latest collaboration producing 20,000 square feet of newly completed modern…

Construction begins on flatiron condo Park Road

Construction begins on flatiron condo Park Road

A flatiron condo in Yorkville called Park Road is moving closer to completion. Capital Developments started building the 28-storey tower less a one year after its launch. “When we started this project, we knew we needed to introduce something unique that would complement this iconic neighbourhood and redefine urban living in Toronto at an attainable…

Calgary’s Scotia Place starts construction

Calgary’s Scotia Place starts construction

Construction is starting on Scotia Place, a new sports and entertainment venue in Calgary. The new event centre, replacing the aging Scotiabank Saddledome, is scheduled to open in fall 2027. The unveiled design reflects the ancestral and historical land of Indigenous Peoples and the culturally significant site that embodies our shared purpose – to gather….

How to Work with First Responders for Facility Emergencies

How to Work with First Responders for Facility Emergencies

Two retired law enforcement officials believe facilities managers should work more closely with emergency responders to keep people, and the facilities they occupy, safe. Each with 33 years of law enforcement experience, Mark Wood, a retired chief executive police officer from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department; and Jeri Williams, who retired after serving as the…

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Approved for Modernization Project

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Approved for Modernization Project

The modernized facility is slated to open in 2030. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals has received final approval on a $1.49 billion hospital building on its Oakland campus that will provide a child-centered medical facility for families across the Bay Area. The vote paves the way for UCSF Health to modernize UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland…