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In today’s condo market, inflation and its impact on condo fees is a hot topic. As we come to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, condos are facing new economic pressures. With consumer inflation impacting costs today, and construction inflation impacting both short-term and long-term capital project costs, many condos are asking: what are some…

  The pandemic has prompted a widespread reevaluation of the workplace across industries, but some members of Ontario’s condo sector have long foreseen shifts that are necessary to improve a property manager’s working conditions and ease the labour shortage that is expected to hit a crisis level. There are now fewer experienced managers for boards…

While some of the more stringent cleaning routines have dissipated gradually in recent months, many changes implemented during the pandemic have remained. “People used to have fairly basic expectations of cleaning such as ‘has my bin been emptied or has the soap been refilled?’,” says Peter Whyte, Divisional Director of Soft Services at JLL company,…

There is no shortage of companies touting the climate benefits of smart, operational control systems that fine-tune the energy performance of the built environment. Many of my first articles for GreenBiz a decade ago focused on this topic. (Eep.) The argument is compelling, and you’ve doubtless heard the rationale many, many times: The structures in…

The ultimate vision of mass hyper-connected smart buildings hosting hundreds of interconnected devices will not be possible without addressing a wide range of building specific cybersecurity issues. Each system, device, router, server, and gateway, including their multiple versions and iterations, introduces its own cybersecurity risk to the building. And, without strict segmentation, unauthorized access to…

What is the ideal office temperature in the UK and how does it compare to other less temperate regions of the world? Marina Vassilopoulos reports on behalf of PSG Global, an international provider of office-fit outs and relocation project management services While the UK is known for its mild temperatures, averaging between 0ºc in the…