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As Liz Nichols and several other masons spent Tuesday morning smoothing over a concrete demonstration slab outside the Las Vegas Convention Center, her 4-month-old daughter Rowan slept peacefully in her stroller behind the line of working women. It wasn’t a unique…

The price of a key building material is more unpredictable today than it has been since the end of World War II. And that should worry home buyers and renters alike. A recent analysis from the National Association of Home Builders examined the…

If you are one of many Prince Edward Islanders waiting to get construction work done, don’t expect movement on that front any time soon. The province’s construction industry is continuing to deal with high demand while navigating labour shortages and supply…

The deadly cost of Ottawa’s tallest condo will be examined at an inquest into the 2016 death of Olivier Bruneau, a layout carpenter crushed by falling ice in an unsafe excavation pit during the construction of Claridge Icon on Preston Street.…

In a world of disposable everything, single-use plastics continue to reign supreme. Every year, Americans generate about 42 million tons of it. And yet only 9% of that gets recycled, in part because the recycling infrastructure in the U.S. can’t keep up with the country’s…

A Halifax councillor is requesting a staff report at Tuesday’s council meeting to examine whether developers should pay more to use sidewalk and road space when construction projects on private property occupy public spaces. Developers currently pay a flat fee of between $60…

There’s a secret dogging British buildings with some of the most coveted environmental ratings: On paper they’re green, but scratch the surface and they’re red hot. Buildings that have received the highest rating in the U.K. — an A Energy Performance…

A planning law introduced in the city of Brighton and Hove, England, calls for new buildings to include special bricks that provide nests for solitary bees. Brighton & Hove Council’s policy stipulates that all new buildings above five metres should include bee bricks, as…

Twin tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will be used to build the two tunnels for SkyTrain’s Millennium Line Broadway Extension are set to arrive in Vancouver sometime this spring. BC minister of state for infrastructure Bowinn Ma says the giant machines…

Municipalities’ objection to housing development has contributed to Canada’s current housing crisis, says Scotiabank Canada’s chief economist Jean-François Perrault. The federal government regulates people coming into the country, but municipalities — and, to a lesser extent, the provinces — hold a…

Two Vancouver-based development companies have announced their 15-year masterplan for developing the Royal Beach area of Colwood, B.C. The 135-acre site will be home to approximately 2,850 homes, retail space, and commercial space over the next decade-and-a-half, according to developers Seacliff…

The industry’s top experts and suppliers return to the Vancouver Convention Centre, March 23 – 24, 2022. Participants will get an insider’s view of what is happening in Western Canada’s built environment through panels, seminars and workshops and gain access to…

Extra! Extra! Read all about it… Jas Saraw, VP Canada at Procore just dropped his NEW monthly newsletter, and you can read it right now, right away on LinkedIn. He’s calling it Breaking Ground, and we can assure you, each month is going…

AOMS Technologies, a leader in advanced IoT solutions for construction and industrial applications, announces it has formally rebranded the company to Brickeye. The name change comes four months after the company’s acquisition of Brickeye, the construction risk mitigation platform. The shift…

Dentec Safety Specialists Inc., with a Canadian head office and manufacturing facility in Lenexa, KS specializes in PPE and Safety Equipment.  Member of AMMA, NIOSH (CDC) certified, and Health Canada approved, the Comfort-Air®Nx (Nx, No Exhalation Valve) Respirator has shipped to Cook Islands, Australia, Italy, England, and…