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Date: Thursday, September 15 Time: 11am PT | 1pm CT | 2pm ET Duration: 45 Minutes With climate change impacting every member of their community, Butler Concrete has made sustainability a cornerstone of their business strategy in Victoria, BC. Each stage of their business…

Retrofitting existing buildings is one of the only tools for mitigating climate change that virtually everyone can agree on. There are large numbers of poorly insulated buildings using fossil fuels for water and space heating. Abandoning those buildings would be a…

The city of Greater Sudbury’s green retrofits over the last 10 years have resulted in more than $2.6 million in savings, according to an engineer with the city. Ontario’s Green Energy Act requires municipalities to track the energy consumption, size, age…

Ontario’s opioid crisis is ripping through men working in the construction industry, accounting for nearly eight per cent of all opioid-related deaths in the province between 2017 and 2020, a new report suggests.  The report found 428 people who worked, or had…

The provincial government says its new prompt payment legislation will make sure contractors and subcontractors will be paid on time after invoices are delivered. The new law, which replaces the Builder’s Lien Act, ensures that contractors are paid within 28 days…

Two high-rise apartment towers in India were leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition on Sunday after the country’s top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said. They became India’s tallest structures to be razed to the…

A nearly complete mixed-use retail and residential rental project has been pushed into receivership in London, Ont., as its lender alleges construction delays blew up an initial $18-million construction budget and dozens of contractors claim millions in unpaid work. London’s Applewood…

The Deep Retrofit Challenge (the Challenge) is a competition-style program funded by the Federal Government, which will support deep retrofit projects that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in approximately 10 to 16 buildings in Toronto. Participating buildings will receive a grant…

The Construction Association of Nova Scotia is frustrated by the outcome of the Halifax Regional Municipality’s Community Planning Economic Development Standing Committee (CPED) meeting on June 16. The HRM has changed the operating hours for construction projects from 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.…

A Surrey man who repeatedly ignored orders to stop unpermitted construction work on his property is facing yet another one. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey B. Gomery issued his decision in the case of Amrik Singh and Dhami Enterprises Ltd. on…

Seven years after construction started, a 34-acre plot of once-contaminated industrial land in the middle of the Ottawa River is being celebrated as the most sustainable community in Canada. The master-planned development between downtown Ottawa and Gatineau, Que. uses post-industrial waste to heat…

A provision tucked into the 730-page tax-and-climate law, valued at just 0.05% of the total price tag, has the potential to trigger big changes in one of the most carbon-intensive processes in the world: cement production. The law gives the EPA $250…

A study recently published by a team of researchers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University has revealed plans to construct a 594-foot-tall dam using robots, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence. The researchers claim that no human labor needs to be directly employed in building this…

Many major construction firms are now publishing both medium-term and long-term targets to reduce their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, outlining their commitment to support international efforts to mitigate global climate change. Though the carbon dioxide emissions from off-road construction vehicles…

The walls of your home usually need to be spruced up with paint or some art, but one day they may be teeming with life instead. Through a new approach to 3D printing, soil implanted with seeds can now be used…