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Improving the indoor air quality (IAQ) in your building is important for companies looking to minimize common indoor pollutants and mitigate the risk of health issues for employees and visitors. Maintaining your HVAC system is a key component in improving the IAQ in your building, and a proactive approach can help maintenance managers avoid the…

A consistent lens for assessing climate risk resilience in Canadian hospitals fits well with preventive health care practices and growing recognition of how the social determinants of health create pressures and costs for the broader health care system. The Health Standards Organization (HSO), the national standards development and assessment body for the health care sector,…

A newly opened facility in Nova Scotia will transform the province’s bioindustrial sector and boost domestic supply chains. The Neptune BioInnovation Centre in Dartmouth is promised to become a world-leading facility that fosters biotechnology advancements such as smart materials, bioplastics, functional foods, green chemicals, therapeutics and alternative proteins. “This Neptune asset and planned expansion are…

Mentorship can drastically change someone’s approach when it comes to facilities management. As a facilities manager overseeing more than 100,000 square feet across three nationwide locations for a mission-driven nonprofit, I have navigated countless challenges in this demanding field. From coordinating emergency responses during a basement flood at our Wall Street office, to overhauling outdated…

  The growth of the Global Lighthouse Network (GLN)—from 16 sites in 2018 to nearly 200 today, across 33 countries and 35 subsectors—underscores the progress leaders have made on the original challenge the GLN identified: integrating advanced technologies at scale to realize significant economic and financial benefits. The latest Lighthouses, awarded in October 2024 and…

Imagine you were a railway executive with a contract to transport valuable cargo across the country. You wouldn’t have a different engine pulling each individual car of cargo. It would be much more efficient and cost-effective to hitch as many cargo cars as possible to the same engine. In fact, you would want a standard…