Andrea Yu

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Andrea Yu

Andrea Yu is a freelance journalist based in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life and Maclean’s.
Maintaining Asset Value in an Era of Climate Change and Risk
Weather and climate disasters result in catastrophic insurance losses, from wildfires to floods, winter storms and tornadoes. They’re increasing in frequency, with so-called 100-year floods now happening several times in a decade. In a CRE.Converge panel this week in Toronto, four climate and sustainability experts gathered to discuss how commercial real estate assets are impacted in an era of climate change.
Four Ways That Sustainability Is Changing the Data Center Boom
Since the first wave of the data center boom in the early 2010s, when fiber optic technology separated from copper and could carry large amounts of data, this evolving sector of commercial real estate has become an area of major focus today, especially when it comes to building with sustainability in mind.
Pioneering Sustainable Design in Industrial Development
North America’s first mass timber constructed warehouse in Brampton, Canada, was profiled at NAIOP’s CRE.Converge conference this week in Toronto. Bulit by Prologis, the 246,000-square-foot facility was made using glued-laminated timber columns and beams, three-ply cross-laminated timber roof panels and SIN beams.

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