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Fueled by a manufacturing economy that continues to recover from the impact of COVID-19 and the increase in online shopping, Mordor Intelligence expects the logistics industry in Canada to grow by a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of more than 2.5% from…

Over halfway through 2022, how does the state of construction differ from what we expected at the start of the year? It looked like the supply constraints of the last two years were behind us, but the reality has been different.…

AECOM, is pleased to announce that Rod Conde has been appointed as operations manager for its Buildings + Places business in Calgary. Mr. Conde is an award-winning architect with over 22 years of diverse experience, leadership, and expertise encompassing a variety…

In October 2017, Brett Morrow, a 22-year-old rugby player known as “String Bean” to his teammates, died while helping to install a plastic liner inside a Chicago-area sewer pipe. He had descended a 20-foot-deep manhole and then crawled 30 feet into…

Battered by weather and baked by sun, a landing spot for birds and branches, we ask a lot of what lies above. But perhaps we can ask just a bit more of our cottage roofs—to not only keep us dry and…

A second massive tunnel-digging machine has begun doing its work on the below-ground segment of a major light rail transit (LRT) route that will further link Mississauga and Toronto. Project leaders said in an update today (Aug. 5) that the second…

A Calgary senior is warning others after the contractor she hired to build her dream business “vanished” during the months he was supposed to be on the job. Christina Lo had always dreamed of opening up a “fully vegan” cafe and…

The labour dispute between the Quebec government and its 1,800 engineers appears to be over. The Association professionnelle des ingénieurs du gouvernement du Québec (APIGQ) announced Wednesday that 90.37 per cent of its members have accepted the agreement in principle reached on…

Hamilton architect Bill Curran hopes to build something atypical — a brand new apartment building on Barton Street East. The longtime advocate for housing intensification in the city equates the site at Barton and Earl streets, just west of Sherman Avenue North, to a “missing…

Exactly one year after plans were announced to overhaul Toronto’s Ontario Place with a massive water park and indoor spa, among other attractions, the latest designs set to go to city council in the fall are igniting concerns of equity and…

by Matt Collins – Content Specialist at Geo Week News It seems like every single day there are more reality capture solutions being put out to help throughout the life of a construction project, and while that’s a slight exaggeration of…

CUSTOMER The founder of Rogers, Ted Rogers, purchased his first radio station, CHFI, in 1960. They have grown over the years to becoming a leading technology and media company that strives to provide the very best in wireless, residential, sports, and…

Concrete production offers a new opportunity to generate carbon credits, stemming from the ability to lock carbon in concrete through CO2 mineralization.  What are Carbon Credits? While interest in carbon removal credits has recently been gaining momentum, carbon credits aren’t new. First introduced in…

It’s shocking to hear that 33 million US workers left their job since early 2021. While construction is no stranger to labor shortages, combining it with the mass exodus we’ve seen over the last year and a half makes hiring and…

Statistics Canada reports that the total value of building permits in Canada declined 1.5% in June to $11.9 billion, mainly due to the non-residential sector, which dropped 10.4% to $3.7 billion, after posting its second-highest monthly value. On a constant dollar basis (2012=100), the total…