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TK Elevator celebrated the opening of its new North American headquarters last week as the elevator industry leader continues investing in R&D and innovative mobility solutions that will address the needs of current and future customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. The…

Erie, Pennsylvania could use a facelift. The lakefront city of 100,000 has been adding jobs and businesses downtown, but it remains saddled with vestiges of its industrial past: abandoned factories, ugly concrete buildings, decaying houses. Leaders have written a stack of…

The Price Faculty of Engineering extends our congratulations to Dr. Ehab El-Salakawy and Dr. Mohamed T. Bassuoni who have earned the fellow distinction of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), a recognition earned by less than 5% of ACI members. ACI is…

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued a Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the Stations, Rail and Systems (SRS) package for the Scarborough Subway Extension project. Teams have been shortlisted and invited to bid on the package, which is being delivered…

Animals and high architecture. It’s a combination that could easily end in disaster – but not in the case of the Montreal Biodome. Seven years ago, the agency Space for Life began the process to renovate the popular botanical garden and…

A government-appointed task force grappling with Ontario’s skyrocketing housing prices is calling for a major increase in new construction and density in the province’s cities and suburbs. In a report released Tuesday, the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force proposed measures to…

A $5-billion construction project in Ottawa is on hold because of the truckers’ protest; that means tools are down and some workers are not getting paid. The extensive construction operation on Parliament Hill that’s revitalizing and reworking Centre Block has been…

Statistics Canada reports that investment in building construction increased by 1.9% to $18.4 billion in December. Gains were reported in both the residential and non-residential sectors. On a constant dollar basis (2012=100), investment in building construction grew 1.2% to $11.5 billion. Single-unit construction drives residential…

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. The space is intriguing to her, but so far, she has not come across a company whose model has been compelling enough to convince…

The sharp increase in U.S. home prices has been one of the most remarkable economic events in recent memory. As shown in Figure 1, for example, the Case‐​Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index indicates that home prices in August 2021 were…

Real estate marketing, with its glossy brochures, is usually all about luxury, status and exclusiveness. Yet, after a certain level of comfort, these things have little to do with personal happiness, says Bruce Haden, principal of the Vancouver design firm Human…

DOZR, the leader in marketplace heavy equipment rentals, announced that it has raised $27.5 million CAD in Series B funding. Co-led by Silicon Valley’s Builders VC and BDC Capital, with participation from BaseCamp Equity Partners, this round of funding will further help…

As Metrolinx forges ahead on its contentious Lakeshore East rail corridor expansion this week, the head of the regional transit agency has had to release a letter to the public responding to backlash for cutting through the environmentally sensitive Small’s Creek ravine. Residents, political figures,…

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Menkes Developments Ltd. (Menkes) is proud to share that according to new data released by Altus Group, a leading provider in real estate data and advisory services, the Company ranked as the number one builder in Canada for pre-construction high rise sales in…