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RONA inc., one of Canada’s leading home improvement retailers operating or servicing some 450 corporate and affiliated stores under different banners and headquartered in Boucherville, Québec, is launching its sixth annual fundraising campaign for Children’s Miracle Network and Opération Enfant Soleil,…

Floods and the associated water damage that often follows can be unexpected and often times devastating financially. When water finds its way into a building as a result of precipitation or a mechanical failure, it can be a challenging experience both…

Two N.W.T. companies charged under the territory’s safety act have set new dates to enter pleas and, in at least one case, proceed to sentencing.   Nogha Enterprises Ltd., a construction company based out of Fort Simpson, N.W.T., faces five safety charges…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work, communicate and interact with the world around us. As industries across the spectrum continue to explore the uses and implications of this technology, the construction industry is no exception. AI has the…

Theft plagues the construction industry. TrueLook’s 2020 Jobsite Security Report states that the average value of equipment stolen exceeds $29,000 per unit. But the total cost of theft is much higher, as projects are delayed and crews sit idle. According to the National Equipment…

The Canadian military’s special forces base at Dwyer Hill is being modernized in a $1.4 billion project. Defence Minister Anita Anand announced Tuesday the initiative to construct 23 new buildings at the Dwyer Hill Training Centre or DHTC. The centre is…

A consortium of governments, manufacturers and civil society partners at the United Nations (UN) 2023 Water Conference recently launched a global commitment to achieve lead-free drinking water. There is an urgent need to reduce human exposure to lead in the environment,…

Britain’s competition watchdog on Thursday fined 10 construction firms a total of nearly 60 million pounds ($74 million) for rigging bids for demolition and asbestos removal contracts for public and private sector projects. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started the…

Quebec taxpayers will have to pay almost $1 billion more for the renovation of the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel linking Montreal and the South Shore, the provincial Transport Ministry confirmed late on Monday. The ministry said in a statement the total bill for the…

Concrete is the most ubiquitous human-made substance on earth, so it was inevitable the global inflationary spiral would come for this energy-intensive material too. Soaring cement costs and concrete shortages are a threat to US President Joe Biden’s infrastructure and manufacturing reshoring ambitions…

On March 20, 2023, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), the licensing and regulating body for professional engineering in the province, laid 352 charges against Jay Lawrence Harding (also known as Jaye Lawrence Harding) under the Professional Engineers Act and the Provincial Offences Act for falsely representing…

An 81-year old property owner told CTV News he’ll do the work himself without machinery, if that’s the method directed by city council. Three years after John McLeod demolished the historic barn on Halls Mill Road without a permit, a plan to…

Applied Research Associates, a research and engineering firm headquartered in New Mexico, awarded faculty in the College of Engineering nearly $3.5 million to study the most expedient ways to 3D print horizontal mission structures for the U.S. military. The faculty team will…

The American Concrete Institute, through the work of ACI Committee 506, has released ACI PRC-506-22: Shotcrete—Guide. The newly introduced guide provides information on materials and properties of both dry-mix and wet-mix shotcrete and covers most facets of the shotcrete process including application…

Since its launch in November, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has undeniably caused quite a media storm. In fact, Bloomberg estimates that mentions of Artificial Intelligence and its related phrases have already increased by 77% since last year. Whilst opinions on the topic of AI…