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  Design collaboration and an emphasis on occupant wellness aided in Heritage Hall’s achievement. Holistic wellness is not just a concept for people, but for healthcare facilities as well. When one is well, the other can benefit from that wellness. As such, there is no well occupant without a healthy facility, and vice versa. This…

The Alberta government is aiming to smooth out utility bill volatility through a stabilized default rate for customers who do not have a competitive contract for electricity and/or gas, and restrictions on how municipalities can calculate the fees they charge to utilities in lieu of property taxes. Proposed legislation in the newly tabled Bill 19…

The new BC Cancer Centre at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital (NRGH) has been approved and procurement is underway. Construction is expected to begin in 2025 and be complete in 2028. The three-storey centre will be built next to the ambulatory care building. It will house a computed topography (CT) simulator, a PET/CT diagnostic scanner and…

The UK workforce has been changing dramatically over the last few years as a result of post-Brexit changes to immigration and the impact of the COVID pandemic in increasing the number of those with long-term illnesses. The latest figures show the greatest contributor to economic inactivity is by those suffering from long-term sickness, rising from…

  Interface, a maker of technically innovative commercial carpet tiling, will stop paying for carbon offsets — which typically fund forest projects in developing countries — to reduce the impact of its greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, starting in 2025, Interface will direct what it used to spend on offsets toward exploring manufacturing with raw materials…

The cicadas are coming! The cicadas are coming! Some facilities professionals will indeed experience a “cicada-geddon,” a term coined by John Cooley, a University of Connecticut cicada expert. According to The Associated Press, two broods of cicadas—13-year and 17-year varieties—will be coming together for the first time since 1803, meaning trillions of them will come…

Southern Health Trust, in partnership with Compass Group UK and Ireland’s healthcare division, Medirest, has been awarded NHS ‘Exemplar’ status for outstanding cleaning services at four sites. The acknowledgement recognises their partnership approach to cleanliness, which has embraced the 2021 National Standards for Healthcare Cleaning, alongside using innovation, sustainability and efficacy auditing systems. Over the…

The Department of Education has awarded NIC Group a place on the Apprentice Provider and Assessment Register, enabling the business to deliver its own apprenticeships in-house. As the first Employer Provider for Apprenticeships in its field this initiative will enable NIC Group to “revolutionise” the way cleaning services are delivered and elevate standards across the…

Facility managers in institutional and commercial facilities should already be exploring new and creative ways to draw workers to the profession. We have profiled those kinds of initiatives here, such as a program instituted by Kent State University that gives in-house employees opportunities to learn trades to become maintenance employees. Another example of the kinds…

  Healthcare facilities managers constantly search for ways their operations can minimize their impact on the environment as they fight against climate change. To help managers achieve their goals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently introduced a program that aims to help managers understand their facilities’ environmental impact. Participation in the program…