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  11 Belgrave Road in London Victoria, the UK’s first building to achieve a NABERS UK Design for Performance 5.5-star rating for building efficiency has completed. The 150,000 sq. ft net zero carbon workplace, developed by global real estate development, investment management and advisory group, Quadrum Global, was designed by Eric Parry Architects. The building…

  Effective facility management enhances customer experience and productivity, influencing business success and competitive advantage. Facility management and related services arguably have a greater impact on customer experience and occupant productivity than any other department within a building or campus. Granted, as a facility practitioner, I may be a bit biased, but, as you will…

  Lighting can have myriad effects on a patient, including their well-being and recovery. Given this, having lights that can mimic daylighting or have adjustable color temperatures can make a difference for patients. Daylighting and mimicry of it allows for a natural feeling in an otherwise stressful environment. Adjustable color temperatures also can influence a…

Research conducted over two decades has continually affirmed that organizational health (how you run the place) is a valuable, competitive differentiator across industries. Organizational health has been linked to value creation, profitability, resilience, and safety metrics (see sidebar “How to assess organizational health”). Organizations in the care delivery sector are no exception: those that prioritize…

The Ontario government is investing more than $26 million to build a new training centre at LiUNA 183’s skilled trades training campus in Vaughan, Ontario. The union will be able to train nearly 50,000 additional workers, doubling their current training capacity to almost 100,000 workers, for in-demand careers in construction across the Greater Toronto Area…

A new school in Masset, B.C. includes Canada’s first-ever tsunami evacuation tower. The Government of British Columbia provided more than $16 million for seismic upgrades and a tsunami evacuation tower at Daaxiigan Sk’adáa Née Secondary school. The Haida Gwaii Board of Education provided $250,000. The school is now home to Daaxiigan Sk’adáa Née Secondary school and Tahaygen…

The Fire Chiefs Association of B.C. and the B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Association have released a joint statement warning of a dangerous amendment the province of British Columbia recently made to its building code that allows for a single exit stairway (SES) in multi-residential buildings. Permitting residential multi-unit dwellings to reduce their minimum egress stairways…

The way students learn has changed. As a result, academic libraries are grappling with an identity crisis. No longer seen as merely archives for print materials or a place for silent, solitary work, leading academic libraries are alive with activity and support hands-on learning and information creation. Digitization has made many resources easily accessible and…

The two-story facility will have 120 beds and provide 84,700 square feet of indoor and outdoor recovery space. Palomar Health is breaking ground on Palomar Health Behavioral Health Institute, a new, state-of-the-art behavioral health facility being developed through a joint venture partnership with Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Lifepoint Health. This vital facility,…

The plans will have to be approved by North Carolina’s CON office. UNC Health Rex has filed plans with state regulators to build a new community hospital in Wake Forest, a project that will increase access and improve care in a fast-growing region of the state. UNC Health Rex recently filed two Certificate of Need…