Designing healthy learning environments

Designing healthy learning environments

  The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and urgency of designing learning environments to promote and protect health. Now, many are asking, what makes a healthy or health-promoting school? What defines healthy? What strategies should we target and prioritize to design healthy environments? More than four decades of research confirms that school buildings are…

Circular Thinking

Circular Thinking

  We cannot ignore the escalating environmental crisis. By 2030 the planet will be home to over 8.5 billion people, meaning the challenges of urbanisation, resource scarcity, waste, pollution and emissions will continue to increase – unless we act now.  Although many believe the answer to these challenges lie in electrification, clean energy and technologies,…

The power of procurement: How governments can purchase a greener future

The power of procurement: How governments can purchase a greener future

  When it comes to how governments can lead the transition to a sustainable future, we often think only of the laws and regulations they can enact to steer companies and citizens in the right direction. While those are important, governments can also take more direct action — by changing their own purchasing habits through…

New advice issued on keeping construction workers safe during the summer heatwave

New advice issued on keeping construction workers safe during the summer heatwave

  According to government stats, there are around 3.1 million people working in construction, who are the most at risk during a heatwave due to working outdoors and at height. With temperatures rising again this summer in certain parts of the UK, building maintenance company Spectrum have provided tips for construction workers to keep safe…

More reservations emerging about CRE conditions

More reservations emerging about CRE conditions

  Investors and asset managers expressed more reservations about Canadian commercial real estate this spring than when they were queried last fall, but they remained generally more optimistic than their peers in the United States. Newly released results from the REALPAC/Ferguson Partners Canadian Real Estate Sentiment Survey for the second quarter of 2022 distill opinions…

Officials Urge Communities to ‘Remain Vigilant’ as U.S. Enters Peak Hurricane Season

Officials Urge Communities to ‘Remain Vigilant’ as U.S. Enters Peak Hurricane Season

Despite a slow start to the hurricane season, “the next Ida or Sandy could still be lying in wait,” warned FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. Atmospheric and oceanic conditions still favor an above-normal 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, according to NOAA’s annual mid-season update recently issued by the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service….