How Ohio University HCOM’s Heritage Hall Achieved WELL Certification

How Ohio University HCOM’s Heritage Hall Achieved WELL Certification

  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…

Alberta aims to smooth utility bill volatility

Alberta aims to smooth utility bill volatility

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…

New BC Cancer Centre in Nanaimo approved

New BC Cancer Centre in Nanaimo approved

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…

Upskilling the unemployed

Upskilling the unemployed

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…

No more funding forests in Cambodia: Interface is ending offsets to go carbon-negative

No more funding forests in Cambodia: Interface is ending offsets to go carbon-negative

  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…

‘Cicada-geddon’: 7 Ways Facilities Managers Can Prepare for the Bug Invasion

‘Cicada-geddon’: 7 Ways Facilities Managers Can Prepare for the Bug Invasion

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…