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The EIFS Council of Canada (ECC) is pleased to announce the launch of its 2023 Architectural Design Awards competition. This is the sixth consecutive year that the EIFS Council of Canada has run their prestigious Awards Program. The Program was initiated…

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, already recognized as the largest trade show in North America, has officially sold all available exhibit space, guaranteeing the 2023 edition of the show will be the biggest in history. “The addition of the new West Hall and Diamond Lot…

The defensive backfield of a football team often employs a “zone defense” to counter the offense’s passing game. Every defender has an assigned area on the field to protect against any receiver daring to encroach upon their territory. Every building with…

Kanban is the Japanese word for ‘visual board’ and is a Lean tool developed by Taiichi Ohno, who was an industrial engineer at Toyota in the 1950’s. Since the emergence of the “Kanban Method” in 2007, it has become an extremely…

Every time I write about alternative construction materials, a commenter will ask: “What about hemp?” The main reasons I didn’t cover the hemp scene is because it reeked of the hippie aesthetic that we tend to avoid. More importantly, it wasn’t…

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Date: Wednesday, December 14Time: 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET Did you know that embodied carbon is expected to account for nearly half of all carbon emissions from building construction over the next 40 years? Concrete is the…

The City of Edmonton’s Groat Road Bridges and Road Renewal project set challenging requirements. Despite approaching the end of its service life, the City wanted the nearly 65-year-old, 330-metre-long four-lane bridge forming a critical transportation route over the North Saskatchewan River…

Micro homes are being built in Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, part of a student-run program to address homelessness and increase the amount of affordable housing in the community. Two micro homes are nearly finished after 14weeks of construction in…

Even as remote employees start returning to in-person work, Canada’s downtowns remain filled with vacant office buildings. In Calgary, for example, the downtown vacancy rate recently reached 27.5 per cent. Meanwhile, the demand for housing throughout the country is higher than…

An Ontario cabinet minister’s letter to big city mayors has sparked a war of words over controversial new housing legislation. London Mayor Josh Morgan will meet with Ontario’s 28 other Big City Mayors to discuss the province’s new Building More Homes…

Ontario’s Ministry of Labour has rejected all 10 recommendations a coroner’s jury has made in an inquest into the death of a construction worker in a trench collapse eight years ago. The ministry, which is not required to accept recommendations from a…

The new Duchesnay Creek Bridge on Highway 17B at Nipissing First Nation continues to garner accolades. Representatives from Wood WORKS! Ontario were in North Bay to deliver to the bridge project owners the Northern Ontario Excellence Award for Wood Design on Dec. 2.…

First aid kits are a critical piece of personal protective equipment (PPE) for every business no matter how large or small.  First aid is required by all workplaces according to the Provincial Occupational Health & Safety Act. Unfortunately, many people do not understand…

A new task team struck by the HRAI Manufacturers Division Board will develop a strategy for engaging with federal, provincial and local governments on the issue of attracting HVACR manufacturing production into Canada as well as supporting existing manufacturers in the country. …