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Groundskeeping requires a delicate balance between monitoring, maintenance, and action – and as the seasons change, new steps are required to achieve that balance. Maintaining a lawn with a professional aesthetic often means using pesticides to help control weed and pest populations. The most common pesticides used in groundskeeping are insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, and…

Smart building technologies have revolutionized how facilities managers approach efficiency, safety, and productivity. The increasing popularity of smart buildings has illustrated a pressing need to adapt to the changing needs of individuals and businesses in an ever-evolving industry. Among the many innovations that have gained traction in recent years, people counting systems have emerged as…

The new facility, which just had the final piece of structural steel added to it, is expected to open in summer of 2025. Skender, as general contractor, announced the placement of the final piece of structural steel on the Schaumburg Outpatient, Primary Care and Infusion Center, located in Schaumburg, Illinois. The last steel beam signifies…

When it comes to designing children’s healthcare facilities, more care needs to be used. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are deeply personal places. People are at their most vulnerable in these buildings, asking for help and hoping for positive results. It’s not just patients that are subjected to this feeling. Families and staff members are…

More patients who no longer require acute care services in Hamilton, Ont., will soon be able to transition into a new alternative facility for restorative and specialty care. The province will invest more than $16 million into a reactivation care centre, which broke ground today. The project is in partnership with St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) and…

Driven by emerging AI developments and digital transformation in the business world, university computer science programs are projected to grow by nearly 15% by 2030. These programs serve both the underlying basic computing research, along with applied computing degrees at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Through our design with Computer Science programs, we have…