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Archive of Year: 2018

December 20, 2018
Christmas carols are playing in stores and on the radio, which prompted me to wonder: ‘Does anyone roast chestnuts by an open fire anymore?’  That sentence conjures up warm and cozy images…
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November 20, 2018
How is the indoor air quality (IAQ) in your workplace, school or home? Why does it matter? Well, it is estimated that most people in Canada spend about 90% of their day…
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November 1, 2018
Safety on the job is important to CFMS.  CFMS Project Managers spend a lot of time on the road, which has it’s risks come winter.  Read Allan (AJ) Hearn’s blog on being…
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October 15, 2018
The role of a Commissioning Consultant requires us to spend time in the office – managing paperwork, reviewing documents, generating pre-functional and functional scripts, and writing reports.  We are also required to…
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September 27, 2018
If you are like me, back to school time and the shift from summer to fall always reminds me that another year is coming to an end.  While we’ve been treated to…
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September 18, 2018
It had been several years since I last attended the SCW Canada charity golf tournament which takes place each September.  While recently attending I was reminded of what a great organization SCW…
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September 6, 2018
‘Is it hot enough for you?’ is likely one phrase we have heard far too often this summer.  There is no disputing that it has been a very hot, humid summer in…
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August 13, 2018
CFMS Project Manager Jurij Dziuba was recently on site waiting for a startup to begin, and so took note of these thoughts about them, to share with our readers: Why do we…
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July 13, 2018
Welcome to our updated website!  They say time flies when you are having fun.  Well I must be have been having a blast!!  It has been 6 years already since we launched…
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We were pretty honoured to be asked to submit a bid to provide commissioning for the Canadian Canoe Museum earlier this year.  To be honest, prior to this, we didn’t really know…
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I recently had the opportunity to assist in the coordination of pool equipment training at Gore Meadows Community Centre in Brampton, Ontario. Phase 2 of this construction project, an aquatics & fitness…
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May 3, 2018
When recently putting together a proposal, I had to go back look at how many similar projects CFMS had done.  I could only think of a couple off the top of my…
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March 27, 2018
As Engineering Month winds down, here is a little insight into how the Engineers at CFMS went in the engineering direction, and what they like about engineering. Wendy Collins, P.Eng., President: My…
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March 8, 2018
This week marks the 184th ‘Birthday’ of Toronto, the day anyway that Toronto was incorporated as such.  Let’s not forget the history of this land before that day, and that Toronto is…
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January 16, 2018
Welcome back to the CFMS blog for our first post of 2018.  Hope you had a great end to 2017, and enjoyed some downtime with your family and friends – in person…
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