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NEx: An ACI Center of Excellence for Nonmetallic Building Materials has hired Jerzy Zemajtis as Executive Director, replacing Dr. David A. Lange. He will oversee all NEx operations and initially focus on identifying and recruiting new members interested in advancing nonmetallic…

The Ontario Court of Justice at Kitchener fined a man $20,000 for attempting to pass off his own work as the work of a professional engineer by applying a facsimile of the engineer’s seal to design drawings filed with the Cities…

General contractors are often required by the specifications to submit a plan for cold-weather concreting procedures that outlines how they will mitigate cold weather and meet the specified requirements.   A contractor’s plan often includes: Monitoring temperature in the concrete at or…

Register now for our January 25th webinar with Andrea Pietila and Kathleen Narbonne of RDH for an overview of thermal bridging and a detailed review of the Deep Energy Retrofit (DER) Thermal Bridging Guide developed by RDH. Thermal bridging is important to consider…

Cooper Equipment Rentals Limited (“Cooper”), the leading independent equipment rental company in Canada, announced that it has acquired Eze Rent-It Centre (“EZE”) in British Columbia and Stayner Rental (“Stayner”) in Ontario.   Established in 1986, EZE has three locations in the Fraser…

A building automation engineering firm experienced a nightmare scenario: It suddenly lost contact with hundreds of its building automation system (BAS) devices — light switches, motion detectors, shutter controllers, and others — after a rare cyberattack locked the company out of…

Past the shimmering glass, corrugated black metal and supporting steel stilts of a new low-rise rental building, passersby can catch a glimpse of the old James Avenue pumping station, a significant part of Winnipeg’s history. Located along the nearly redeveloped Waterfront…

In the U.S., around 13% of greenhouse gases are spewed out of commercial and residential buildings. You’d be forgiven for scratching your head and asking why. If you tour a typical New York building, you’ll often find that the tech that runs deep…

Contracts have been awarded to two companies for the $350-million renovation and expansion of a science centre in Moncton that’s expected to add about 350 jobs to the city. Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt was awarded a $26-million contract to create designs, and Montreal-based Pomerleau was awarded a $325-million construction…

Autodesk, Inc. announced that it is acquiring ProEst, a cloud-based estimating solution that enables construction teams to create estimates, perform digital takeoffs, generate detailed reports and proposals and manage bid-day processes. Autodesk plans to integrate ProEst with Autodesk Construction Cloud, a comprehensive…

In 2020, the extraction, transport and manufacturing of materials for the building sector accounted for 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. If buildings are to make meaningful contributions to keeping global temperature rise to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, limiting emissions from building…

The design and construction of the Trillium Line expansion will fall under a “peer review” in the same year it’s scheduled to open to transit customers. Michael Morgan, the director of rail construction, sent a memo to Ottawa city council on…

ONE Properties, a privately owned, integrated real estate investment firm is proud to announce that Southpark on Whyte has been awarded LEED Gold certification and is the first LEED V4 Multi-Family Project in Edmonton. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)…

The trend in housing starts was 267,365 units in November, up from 264,583 units in October, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of…

Following the in-camera session of a special meeting, Thursday, the City of North Bay is announcing it will offer to provide Cassellholme with $4 million in bridge financing to allow the planned redevelopment of the long-term care facility to proceed without incurring significant…