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In the built environment, there are many different types of buildings where occupants work, play and stay. They could be the skyscrapers or office centers that dominate the metropolitan skylines or warehouses that create industrial parks within a suburban landscape. They could be hospitals, college campuses, or technical centers. Each of these building types has…

  Sharp Rees-Stealy Otay Ranch Medical Center is undergoing a significant transformation. The $86 million project consists of a new two-story medical office building with an urgent care center, advanced imaging technology and expanded services, as well as a 610-stall parking structure. The new building is expected to open in 2025 and will help support…

David DeQuattro doesn’t need reams of climate data to tell him that things are much different now. In early January, he needed only a calendar as he looked out the window of his office in Providence, Rhode Island, at the first snowstorm of winter — which was also the first in two years. “Typically, the…

  A facility manager was sentenced to 42 months in prison and forced to pay restitution of nearly $20 million and surrender $2 million for his role in a kickback scheme that defrauded his employer. A Department of Justice press release announced that Elliott Dennis Kleinman, 69, of Bel Air, Maryland, was convicted of conspiracy…

The latest McKinsey Global Survey on economic conditions finds that geopolitical instability is viewed as the top threat to economic growth by respondents (Exhibit 1). Earlier optimism about the global economy—and respondents’ own companies’ workforce growth and profits—has receded somewhat; nevertheless, respondents maintain a largely positive view about their own economies. At the same time, concern…

Hamilton will soon be the first city in Ontario to introduce a renoviction bylaw forcing landlords to obtain a licence prior to engaging in building upgrades that require a unit to be vacated. Based on similar policy in New Westminster, BC, the Renovation Licence and Relocation Bylaw is another way to deter landlords from displacing…