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QleanAir now launches an air cleaner developed in dialogue with hospitals to meet new international guidelines. With high airflow and boost functionality, quiet operation and an energy-saving function, the new air cleaner is designed to help hospitals, schools and offices to…

Graco Inc., a leading manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, will be launching new re-imagined injector technology as well as showcasing its lubrication equipment for the heavy-duty construction and aggregate market at the upcoming CONEXPO-CON/AGG show in Las Vegas. Visit booth #S61419…

Yanmar Compact Equipment will launch a new product line strengthening its offering of compact equipment at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 in Las Vegas. The manufacturer will have a 7,880-square-foot booth under the Yanmar Compact Equipment North America (Yanmar CE NA) umbrella. Yanmar will show…

In recent years, phase change materials (PCMs) used to improve the energy efficiency of buildings are gaining momentum. PCMs can store and release large amounts of energy—when in a solid phase, they can absorb heat, providing a cooling effect and when…

As an industry, we risk straying too far from what made us such an incredible line of work in the first place. We need to avoid giving our people unnecessary tasks and responsibilities, ones that occupy too much of their time…

In 2019, it was announced that asbestos was the leading type of occupational lung cancer in Ontario. It is estimated that approximately 1900 lung cancers, 430 mesotheliomas, 45 laryngeal cancers and five ovarian cancers are caused by exposure to asbestos in…

With over 38 years in linear lighting, Magic Lite has once again expanded and improved it’s offering of indoor and outdoor tape light products.  Boasting the broadest tape light offering with industry-leading warranty of 6 years, Magic Lite is confident that…

Rome’s Pantheon stands defiant 2,000 years after it was built, its marble floors sheltered under the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. For decades, researchers have probed samples from Roman concrete structures—tombs, breakwaters, aqueducts, and wharves—to find out why these ancient buildings…

The construction industry is constantly pushing the limits of what’s possible, and unique and interesting projects are becoming more common as a result. From themed hotels and museums to sports stadiums and public art installations, construction professionals are using their creativity…

Self-driving trench diggers. Drones that digitally re-create buildings. Roomba-like devices that outline where every beam on a floor should go. The construction site of the future is already here as homes, office buildings and industrial sites go up around the country.…

While launching a sustainable furniture startup during the pandemic, serial entrepreneur Josh Dorfman watched as the price of wood skyrocketed. It got harder to find high-quality lumber, and he started wondering what alternative materials might be possible to use. At the…

Preservationists are drawing a line in the sand in defence of Stratford’s historic first hospital, demanding a reprieve for the yellow-brick Victorian building hospital administrators want to flatten to make way for new development.  Built in 1891, the building was designed…

A group that represents construction companies has asked the Competition Bureau to investigate an agreement between The Ottawa Hospital and a labour organization to build the new $2.8 billion Civic campus. Karen Renkema, vice president of the Ontario region with the…

Ontario should speed up new housing approvals, increase skilled trade immigration, and “rein in” municipalities introducing varying green building standards, a residential builders’ group is telling the government. The province is sifting through a mountain of requests for funding and policy changes as…

National nonresidential construction spending decreased by 0.5% in December, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $943.5 billion for the month. Spending fell…