Thursday, April 25, 2024 
Webinar – Future-Proofing Your Concrete Business
About the Webinar Date: Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET Duration: 30 minutes When suppliers began rationing cement and increasing prices during the pandemic, family-owned single plant operator ABC Ready Mix rolled out CarbonCure…
Mobile Hi-Impact Shielding Barrier for Industrial Applications
MarShield, an industry leader in product innovation, was contacted by a prominent energy company in Southeast USA to develop a barrier that would be extremely durable with high visual clarity and extreme impact qualities. The energy company provides electricity to 7.8…
SBC Webinar: Laneway, ADU & Tiny Home Residences
Laneway houses and Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are increasingly popular building forms to address the need for densification and increasing the availability of housing in urban areas. Simultaneously, tiny houses are being incorporated into the mainstream building lexicon and being touted…
Pantera partners with COMPASS PREQUAL to offer best-of-class, integrated prequalification and bidding platform
Pantera Global Technology, a leading provider of powerful bid, project, and risk management software for the Construction Industry – has announced a partnership with COMPASS (developed by Bespoke Metrics Inc.) , a leading prequalification platform that focuses on data and analytics…
Digital Is the New Blue(print)
Decades ago, paper blueprints were common practice in the construction industry. But just as we (mostly) upgraded our horsepower from equine to turbo diesel, contractors are moving from paper to digital plans. The ease, efficiency, time, and money savings are just…
The International Code Council and the International Association of Electrical Inspectors collaborate to strengthen training and resources for members
The International Code Council and the International Association of Electrical Inspectors (IAEI) have formalized a service agreement that will allow both organizations to provide additional benefits to their respective memberships. IAEI has long been a part of the Code Council’s Preferred…
EIFS Council of Canada announces their 2022 Architectural Design Awards Program
The EIFS Council of Canada announces the opening of its 2022 Architectural Design Awards Program. This is the sixth consecutive year that the EIFS Council of Canada has run their prestigious Awards Program. The Program was initiated to honour design professionals…
How Singapore created the first country-scale digital twin
Recently, Singapore completed work on the world’s first digital twin of an entire nation. Bentley Systems tools accelerated the process of transforming raw GIS, lidar, and imagery data into reality mesh, building, and transportation models of the country. “We envisaged that these building blocks will…
Grow Your Career in Equipment Rentals
When I was a kid my father was in the equipment rental business and I think I always knew I would join the family business. In fact, my uncle used to tell me a story about asking me at 5 years…
IAPMO R&T Promotes Anish Desai to Senior Vice President of Product Certification
IAPMO R&T, North America’s premier third-party testing and certification body for plumbing, mechanical, and water treatment products, is pleased to announce the promotion of Anish Desai to senior vice president of Product Certification. In addition to continuing to oversee daily operation…
Podcast – Using the 5 Principles of Leadership
Reading is something I do not only for personal enjoyment but also for personal growth. There are a vast number of books written on leadership, with new ones emerging every day, yet still, one of my all-time favourites is The Leadership…
Eladia Smoke builds Indigenous principles into Centennial College’s mass-timber expansion
Indigenous narratives and esthetics are woven through the mass-timber construction emerging on Centennial College’s Progress campus, and the young architect behind the work hopes people demand more of that in the country’s future buildings. Built on the shared territories of the…
City of Calgary announces plans to build mixed-use fire station in Inglewood
The City of Calgary is pleased to announce that it will partner with a local developer to build a mixed-use fire station in the community of Inglewood, using a new integrated approach to facility planning under The City’s Corporate Facility Planning…
Silent Killer Lurks – Managing the deadly risk of asbestos
by Christopher Nielsen, B.Sc., P. Geo. (Limited), Vice President T. Harris Environmental Management Inc. Silent Killer Lurks Maintainers making repairs or anyone else working in a facility may encounter asbestos. It wraps around pipes and elbows, it lines boilers and it’s present…
EllisDon and Build a Dream join forces to recruit recent graduates
Build a Dream and EllisDon are partnering to host the career fair, showcasing different roles in the construction industry. EllisDon, an employee-owned, $5-billion-a-year global construction services company, will be hiring in IT, project management, field operations, finance, marketing, HR, engineering, design…
