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Recently The Daniels Corporation, DiamondCorp, Kilmer Group, and Habitat for Humanity GTA , welcomed three Habitat families to their new homes in the Daniels FirstHome™ Keelesdale community. These three families received the keys to their new homes at Habitat GTA’s Home for the Holidays celebration. Located…

Despite the fact that most Canadian real estate companies now build smart tech into their buildings to monitor, manage, and maintain many functions, such as heating, lighting, elevators, power meters and fire alarm systems, very few have invested to ensure these…

BC Hydro’s John Hart Dam Seismic Upgrade Project reached another milestone with the award of the civil works contract to the Aecon-EBC General Partnership. The schedule remains on track for construction work to start on the dam in summer 2023, following…

Computers are comprised of both software and hardware. One can’t work without the other’s help. Companies aren’t much different. In this day and age, it’s easy for the leaders and those in charge to neglect those on the ground doing hard…

Our fixed roof access ladders ensure a high level of safety and compliance for accessing rooftops, hatches, ceiling spaces and maintenance platforms. They can be permanently mounted to any building structure, and due to their modular design can be manufactured in…

The National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA), the leading trade association representing the utility construction and excavation industry in the United States, will be introducing an all new “NUCA Lounge” at The Utility Expo, September 26-28, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky. The NUCA…

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…