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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…

Homeowners and employees have been left reeling after an Orléans construction company suddenly closed its doors, walking away from half-built houses and projects worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, those who relied on the company, Highbridge Construction, are left wondering…

Fanshawe College is pleased to announce a donation of $2 million from London’s Crich family. This is the largest individual donation in the College’s history, and will create the new Don Crich Skilled Trades Accelerator, housed at Fanshawe’s London Campus. The Don Crich Skilled Trades Accelerator…

Construction Links Network is pleased to announce our partnership with New York Build – expanding our brand presence into the United States. Officially supported by the Mayor of New York, New York Build (March 8-9, Javits Center) is the largest construction,…

As it marks its second year of operations, the Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) may now impose administrative penalties on Ontario home builders or vendors who breach their legal and ethical obligations. A new regulation now in effect adds administrative penalties…

Henry Knelsen learned how to skate a couple years ago. And he loves it. In December, Knelsen, a local concrete contractor who runs Handy Henry in Simcoe, decided to build a temporary outdoor ice rink on the property the business leases…

This year, Edmonton architecture firm Rockliff Pierzchajlo Kroman Architects (RPK) donated $25,000 to the University of Calgary School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape (SAPL). The gift is to be used for the Indigenous Pathways Program initiated by the school to grow…