Case Studies Region: Canada

The municipality of Petawawa in Ontario, Canada, has many things—a Canadian Army garrison, a heritage village—but until recently, the town of roughly 81,000 did not have a discount grocery store. Metro, a Montreal-based food purveyor, set out to change that. The company, which has over $19 billion in revenue and 95,000 employees, is building a […]

When the new Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation, or CCEAI, is built on the Broadway campus of Vancouver Community College, it will provide students with training programs such as automotive innovation, clean energy and creative learning as well as spaces for student services and a gathering place for Indigenous students. As Sladjana Borovcanin, […]

In terms of Southlake Regional Health Centre’s facilities, its switchboards may be its nerve center. It’s not the type of switchboard seen in vintage movies where incoming phone calls are directed to someone by an operator plugging a wire into a circuit. The two switchboards at Southlake distribute electricity received from two high voltage transformers […]

The year 2005 was a significant one in Ian McDermott’s career—and in the lives of numerous cancer patients across the globe. For the two years prior, he and his research facilities planning and safety team had been immersed in a $200 million project for a 388,600-square-foot, 15-story building, with 14 floors wholly dedicated to research. […]

When Natashia Dunham joined Sobeys, she launched an extensive renovation program to improve the company’s facilities and bring them up to Canada’s new national standard. But for Dunham, that dovetailed nicely with her modus operandi. “Transformation, continuous improvement and real estate have always been themes in my career journey,” says Dunham, the director of corporate […]

It’s easy for residents and visitors in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to see how the 300 Main mixed-use high-rise is becoming a downtown landmark. After all, it’s the tallest building in the city. It towers over Portage and Main streets at one of the Canadian city’s most famous intersections. It offers 395 apartments with one, two and […]

Chuck Morris may be new to Gold Trail School District 74, but he comes with over 40 years of experience in Canadian public schools. Since 1980, he’s worked at six districts throughout British Columbia and only diverted once, giving four years to the private sector. His love of schools has prevailed, though, and in October […]

The hospital might be of fairly recent build, but diagnostic equipment doesn’t last forever. So Jenn De iuliis explains while overseeing the replacement and upgrade of one of the most sensitive and expensive facilities at Woodstock Hospital in Southwestern Ontario. “It’s all about how you and your team take the hospital’s mission to heart and […]

Usually when a Canadian company expands its geographical footprint, it goes from the more populous eastern provinces to the west. But not with Chatters, which since 1991 has grown from a sole hair stylist in Red Deer, Alberta, to being Canada’s largest salon and retail products chain.  The growth had been prolific with 116 locations […]

There are few guarantees in life, but aside from death and taxes, Terry Sim says you can always guarantee the need for more healthcare services as populations grow. And that need is exactly what he’s dealing with now as the director of facilities and development for Humber River Hospital in one of the fastest-growing areas […]