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In today’s uncertain economic and geopolitical climate, playing offense—in combination with playing defense—is competitively advantageous and critical for long-term success. Taking an entrepreneurial approach and focusing on business building is an effective offensive strategy. Through business building, incumbents can diversify, shore up, protect, and expand. In the wake of crises, business builders tend to outperform…

Generation Z doesn’t settle for the typical living environment. Over the past few years, their desires and societal changes have allowed us to push boundaries in how we design and deliver to our clients. We’re working to continually set the bar to provide living experiences that surpass the rest. There’s a good chance you’ve lived…

Society benefits, and invariably prospers, when people everywhere can more easily share their experience, knowledge and culture and exercise their spending powers. In association with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, December 3, this guest column by Brad McCannell, vice president of access and inclusion with the Rick Hansen Foundation, reiterates that universal access…

A new student housing complex is open at the University of Victoria (UVic), the university’s largest capital infrastructure project to date. Completed a year ahead of schedule, the Sngequ House features 385 single-room dormitory-style beds, primarily for first-year students, and an Indigenous student lounge. “When young people move away from home for school, they need…

New data by UK power solutions provider, Critical Power Supplies (CPS), reveals that more than half of organisations are unprepared for future energy shortages or disruptions despite more than two-thirds agreeing that demand for back-up power generation is set to rise. CPS canvassed the views of business leaders, facilities managers, technology managers and energy managers…

Back to Basics is an article series that highlights important, but possibly overlooked, information facilities management professionals should know. Most facilities professionals have heard the term “net zero buildings” before but perhaps don’t know exactly what it means or why they should convert their facilities to net zero. Commercial, educational, industrial, and nonprofit facilities should…