Housekeeping

Weather and plant needs should dictate watering schedule
 
Many property and facilities managers have taken steps to reduce obvious waste because it makes both financial and environmental sense to do so. Sometimes it’s not obvious, however. Overlooked systems in a facility can consume a significant amount of resources, but, once identified, can present an opportunity for savings.

Tight Schedule for Province-Wide Asbestos Inventory
Intensified Scrutiny of Non-Friable Materials Brings New Costs
 
Workers in full HAZMAT gear turned a recent energy retrofit into a delicate communications exercise for property managers with Peel Region’s non-profit housing corporation, Peel Living. The $1.2-million project to convert an electrically heated, 140-unit seniors’ housing complex to central natural gas heating began just after Ontario’s new asbestos Regulation under the Occupational Health & Safety Act came into effect in November 2005..