Upcoming Webinars

Navigating the US Tariff Impact on Facility Management

Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm MST

Description 

The latest US tariffs are shaking up the Facility Management industry, driving up costs for essential materials, disrupting supply chains, and forcing FMs to rethink their strategies that are impacting future planning: budgets and trade shortages.  

How are FMs responding? What solutions are emerging to mitigate these challenges?

Join us for an insightful webinar where experts will break down the key impacts of these tariffs and share actionable strategies for managing rising costs, securing alternative suppliers, and maintaining operational efficiency. This session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to adapt.

Building for People: What Facility Managers Must Know About Accessibility

Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2025

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm MST

Description 

Today, nearly 20% of Canadians lives with a disability, and this experience impacts every community and market in Canada.  Everyone benefits from accessibility training – from colleagues to industry, and clients to family members. This presentation will help facility managers across Canada understand the diverse experience of disability, consider any legal accessibility obligations for your sites, identify barriers in your facilities, and create an inclusive environment for everyone.

 Attendees will also learn:

• Impact of the disability experience in Canada

• Relevant accessibility obligations

• Language and communication etiquette

• How to interact respectfully with people with disabilities

• Strategies for making workplaces and spaces more inclusive

• Training and certification opportunities

Bring your questions! We'll have time for live Q&A so you can get the answers you need.

What is IFMA Calgary?

IFMA Calgary is your local partner in facility management. We empower our members through professional networking opportunities, context-rich education, and connection to the world’s largest facility management association. Delivered to you by local experts with local context.

IFMA’s Service Center of Excellence provides a huge variety of resources for learning, networking, and evaluating how you can be a better FM. We can’t even give you a partial list of all the programs they run, you should check them out to see everything they have to offer.

Together, the Calgary Chapter and IFMA SCoE provide the unbeatable resources of the world’s largest network of facility managers and the local context to make it mean something in Calgary.