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Persistent inflation has had spillover effects on the insurance that companies use to guard against disaster at their facilities, with higher construction costs making it harder to get coverage and harder to get paid on claims.  Businesses usually insure against events such…

Over 50 years after the first human set foot on the Moon, humanity is preparing to take the next big steps in space exploration. The Moon, and eventually Mars, will be the first destinations for human settlement. Scientists have been testing various…

Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral’s construction in the mid-12th century. It’s an unexpected discovery that changes how researchers thought the church was built, and provides surprising insights on…

The City’s Planning and Housing Committee recently recommended endorsing a municipal housing pledge with strategies to encourage construction of 151,000 new homes across Ottawa by 2031. The Province assigned Ottawa’s target as part of a larger plan to support construction of 1.5 million…

The tunnel-boring machine named Phyllis saw daylight this past Saturday when it broke through the underground box for Mount Pleasant Station of SkyTrain’s Millennium Line Broadway Extension. This comes almost exactly two months after her sister, Elsie, arrived at Mount Pleasant in…

A Toronto committee shelved an attempt to re-open the contentious debate over the future of the eastern Gardiner Expressway Monday, after city staff revealed that nearly half of the project’s billion-dollar budget had already been spent. “When anyone makes an enormous…

A contractor who was paid thousands of dollars by the owners of three P.E.I. properties and who did not perform any work has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for theft and using forged property development permits.  “These crimes were…

A coalition of construction companies says Quebec could save $14 billion over the next 10 years by cleaning up its public contracting procedures and, above all, by instituting professional and competent project management. Two major construction associations and two independent institutions,…

As new homes continue to go up in Moncton, contractor Andrew Nelson gets lots of calls about taking on new projects. But with not enough workers, he routinely turns them down. “My standard answer now is ‘What’s your timeline?'” If they say they…

A B.C. highway contractor has been fined $1 million after a chemical spill from their West Vancouver job site led to a fish kill on Larson Creek. Keller Foundations pleaded guilty to one count under the Federal Fisheries Act and was sentenced in…

Two city councillors want to renew a call on the province to launch a public inquiry into Winnipeg construction projects, procurement processes and real estate transactions. Couns. Russ Wyatt (Transcona) and Ross Eadie (Mynarski) want their council colleagues to join them…

The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Cochrane of Cochrane Supply & Engineering to the CABA Board of Directors. “I have long been a fan of CABA’s work to promote positive advancements in the…

CASE Construction Equipment is teaming up with nonprofit Crew Collaborative to sponsor and help build from the ground-up an-all new career counseling and mentoring program for high school students interested in the construction industry trades: FrameWork. “At CASE, we are customer-led in all we do,” says…

Holcim’s ECOPact Low-Carbon Concrete has been selected as the CONEXPO-CON/AGG Next Level Awards Contractors’ Choice in the inaugural awards program at CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE 2023. The Next Level Awards celebrate exhibiting companies that are pushing the boundaries and developing next-level products, technologies…

GRYB International, a leading manufacturer of heavy equipment attachments, will be present at the 2023 ISRI Convention from April 17-20 at the Music City Convention Center. Something exciting is coming, and GRYB wants you to be a part of it! Bateman,…