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  Third-party certification systems like LEED and LEED Zero are crucial to stemming the tide of climate change. Here’s why. It’s been a challenging summer. Most of the country has experienced hotter than average temperatures. Energy costs are climbing. Drought conditions have led to water restrictions in parts of the country. All of these challenges…

  In 2021, the economic costs of climate change were laid bare in the forest fires of one of British Columbia’s key lumber-growing regions and the winter storm that took down part of Texas’ power grid, to name just two extreme weather events. By now, many business leaders are out in front of policymakers on…

  Choosing lifestyle over pay has always been a characteristic of millennials and the pandemic has increased this tendency in all other generations. People are far less willing to accept dull, dirty, dark, and dangerous conditions for more pay. In fact, they often take jobs for significantly less pay to have predictable schedules, better hours,…

There’s no single definition or set of requirements for a building to necessarily be considered smart. Smart really takes on more of an implied state of being rather than a true definition. Smart building is loosely defined as a building or structure that uses processes to manage and control its operations, whether that’s heating, ventilation…

  Five years after the terrible Grenfell Tower tragedy some of the initial inquiry findings have impacted fire door legislation and, by extension, facilities managers’ duties around the fire safety of the buildings. Below, we outline the changes in legislation, the reasons for the recommendations and how facilities managers can ensure their fire doors will…

Several years ago, a restaurant worker died while performing one of his regular tasks—cleaning a restaurant’s kitchen floor. To clean the floor more effectively and efficiently, he decided to combine two incompatible cleaning agents: concentrated chlorine bleach and an acid-based cleaning solution. An example of an acid-based cleaning solution is ammonia; however, reports of the…