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Toronto-area architects and urban design professionals are being honoured for projects that are pushing the envelope with innovative new concepts. As contemporary urban design continues to evolve, architects and planners across Canada are moving beyond merely striving for a strong visual…

A multi-year series of highway safety improvements is nearing completion on Highway 7. The latest upgrades include passing lanes between Kindersley and the Saskatchewan-Alberta border. Since 2014, the Government of Saskatchewan has invested about $120 million on major safety improvements on…

A Halifax homeowner wants the city to change its rules around construction blasting after she says she spent $15,000 repairing her home.  Leah Morrison says she felt her house tremble from blasting during construction of a 12-storey apartment building on Joseph Howe Drive…

Several people who bought pre-construction townhomes nearly three years ago in Mississauga were forced to come up with between $70,000 and $170,000 in less than a week before they were able to close on their properties. New owners at 1165 Journeyman…

A B.C. construction firm specializing in using robotics to help build homes has nailed down some fresh capital from investors. Intelligent City Inc. announced Tuesday (July 19) it’s raised another $22 million as part of a bid to expand into new…

A strong, positive culture attracts top talent, as people care more about their work environment nowadays than ever before. If you want to retain the best and the brightest, you’ll need to provide a workplace where your people want to stay,…

Bay Area startup Earthgrid says it’s developing a plasma boring robot that can dig underground tunnels 100x faster and up to 98% cheaper than existing tech, and it plans to use it to start re-wiring America’s energy, internet and utilities grids.…

People today live in the fast lane, for better or for worse. Many change jobs or even careers in a snap; others change residences or living arrangements. A lot of the products today are designed to cater to that kind of…

COMPANY There’s something for everyone in the family at the Fort McMurray Jubilee Plaza. Located at the corner of Hardin Street and MacDonald Avenue, Jubilee Plaza is where people of all ages are encouraged to hang out, have fun and relax—designed…

The construction project life cycle consists of five important phases. Understanding what each stage embodies and how they work together in succession can help you successfully initiate and closeout construction projects. Poor planning, after all, can result in significant delays and additional (and…

With gold-coloured shovels in hand, five provincial dignitaries heaved dirt into the air to help launch the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant’s three-year renewal project. More than 40 people — area MLAs, the mayors of Regina and Moose Jaw, plant board…

Best Management Practices + CarbonCure Reclaimed Water = ROI If you’re a concrete producer who has invested in a reclaimer, you enjoy the benefits of a cleaner job site, recovering aggregates, and knowing you are protecting the local groundwater and streams. Your investment…

Estimating projects of any size can be a very detailed and cumbersome task. Adding to the pressure is the fact that nothing can affect the profit margin more than the initial estimate. Therefore, it is extremely important to be as accurate…

The construction industry is a major contributor to the U.S. economy, consisting of over 7.6 million workers and creating $1.4 trillion worth of property assets annually. Construction is also a high-risk industry. While construction workers make up only 6 percent of the U.S.…

Amid ongoing supply chain issues and increasingly urgent calls to develop a domestic EV battery market, one Alberta company is demonstrating that the province has what it takes to build lithium batteries right here at home. In June, E3 Lithium completed…