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A new report on the Canadian government’s procurement practices urges wider rollout of the vendor performance management (VPM) system that Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) is now phasing in for select contractors and more openness to innovative tendering formats such as negotiated requests for proposals (NRFPs). To achieve this, and enhance the efficiency and…

  Site work has started on Iowa’s most-expensive construction project to date, a $2.2-billion patient care tower to be built on the north side of The University of Iowa Healthcare campus in Iowa City. The general contractor for the 842,000-sq-ft patient care tower is JE Dunn; the architect is Neumann Monson Architects, which has offices in…

Dive Brief: Oregon lawmakers have passed two bills that experts say will make facilities more resilient as the state’s power grid faces rising electricity demand, more frequent extreme weather events and repeated public safety power shutoffs to mitigate wildfire risk. HB 2065 and HB 2066 create “a first-in-the nation strategy to create a regulatory framework…

The Supply Chain Sustainability School today launches a vital new guide, Measuring and Reporting Waste in the Built Environment: A Practical Guide, which reveals the scale of built environment waste and what the industry must do next. The UK construction sector generates 62 per cent of the country’s total waste, with 32 per cent sent…

The British Council for Offices (BCO) has published a new report which claims that while office utilisation rates have stabilised, there has been a fundamental shift in how offices are used, with major implications for developers, investors and occupiers. The report, authored by Nigel Oseland of Workplace Unlimited, shows that the long-standing benchmark of 80…

  A question this important should be easy to answer. Many companies provide emissions data in their sustainability reports and in disclosures made to CDP, an independent clearinghouse for environmental data. In theory, these sources can be used to assess progress toward interim targets, many of which fall between now and 2030. In reality, it…