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Regal Plaza Corporate Centre, a new mixed-use business complex will feature sustainability elements reducing total energy consumption by 15 per cent less than current Ontario Building Code requirements. Sustainability features include the thermal effectiveness of the building envelope with insulated window…

Six years ago, 461 Dean Street — then and now the nation’s tallest modular apartment building at 32 stories — opened its doors on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The 363-unit tower had been plagued with four years of delays, lawsuits and…

Statistics Canada reported job vacancies in the construction sector hit 89,225 in June, just below a record high in April. Richard Lyall, president of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON), said the industry has done a remarkable job over the…

It smells like a lush pine forest in the lunch room of a new upper secondary school in Helsinki, but there’s no scented air freshener. Instead, most of the five-storey building has been constructed out of wood. The school won’t be…

Disperse, a U.K.-based construction tech company that offers an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform to help project managers track work and capture data from building sites, has raised $16 million in funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Disperse effectively creates a…

Construction has long been considered an industry that lacks both evolution and innovation. While other industries have avoided stagnation by becoming more efficient and productive over time, the construction industry has been stuck in its tracks. According to McKinsey in 2017, the…

Don’t Let Water Wash Away All Your Hard Work When specifying concrete waterproofing, you need a solution that’s reliable and permanent. Without it, your concrete waterproofing is at risk of failing and letting water erode and corrode the concrete that it…

After more than a decade of dusty, noisy construction, people who live and operate businesses along Toronto’s Eglinton Avenue were looking forward to the new Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) line finally opening this fall. However, just over a week ago,…

Not long ago, Josh Gaglardi got a call from the company that supplies his building firm, Orion Construction, with glass. Input costs were going up, the supplier explained, and there was no choice but to raise prices—by 40%. Gaglardi, like most…

According to Grand View Research, the global nuclear medicine market size was an estimated 8.1 billion USD in 2021 and is expected to increase 13% from 2022-2030. Nuclear medicine is expanding quickly due to advancements in products and government initiatives that improve nuclear medicine…

Date: Tuesday, October 11Time: 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET Increasingly, the design and construction industry is recognizing the importance of reducing embodied carbon emissions, and buildings involving concrete offer a major opportunity to help the industry have…

If you’re in Ottawa this week and interested in learning more about how construction teams are utilizing visual data to make faster decisions to keep ahead of projects, then come check out Timescapes at booth 247 at the upcoming OCA Construction…

Whether required for a new or existing building, an approved fire safety plan contains the emergency evacuation procedures which are so vital to allow occupants to safely exit in a timely manner, should a fire situation occur in the building. This…

Lead exposure from drinking water systems is a major challenge facing countries around the world, but it is solvable. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued global guidance addressing this critical situation that focuses on specific steps countries can take to reduce the…

You might not consider emotional intelligence to be a requirement for the construction industry, but it’s actually becoming an increasingly important part of the job. That’s because more and more people are realizing that empathy is only one aspect of emotional…