Thursday, October 3, 2024 
Estimate Your Way in STACK
Estimating is the backbone of a construction project, and it’s essential to get it right to win bids. After calculating material quantities with your takeoff, estimating adds costs to all facets of the project, from materials and labor to overhead and…
Report: Solving the Challenges of Mobile Construction Machine Electrification
Manufacturers in the $200 billion construction equipment market are facing a complex challenge. They must greatly reduce their dependence on diesel fuel, which is the lifeblood of their mobile machinery, and move to lower emission technologies. At the same time, they…
112m-year-old dinosaur tracks damaged in Utah by construction machinery
They survived intact for 112m years through scorching summer heat and freezing winters at Utah’s Mill Canyon. But several of the world’s most important and historic dinosaur footprints were damaged beyond repair earlier this year when a construction crew arrived to…
This is the first downtown Vancouver office tower to begin construction during COVID
As another sign of the continued strong confidence in Vancouver’s office market over the long term, despite the ongoing effects of the pandemic, construction will officially begin this week on Reliance Properties and Hines’ 1166 West Pender Street office tower in downtown’s Central…
Graham begins work on new Urgent Care Centre in Regina
Work is beginning on Regina’s new Urgent Care Centre, which will offer residents an alternative to emergency departments for illnesses and injuries that are not life threatening. The facility will provide more timely access for health care issues needing immediate medical attention,…
Q&A – Procore.org with Bass Installation: How to make construction more inclusive with tangible workplace policies
Natasha Callender-Wilson is Vice President of Bass Installation, a glass installation company whose work can be seen in many Toronto projects, including CIBC Square, TEC Bridge and the Shangri-La Hotel Toronto. Her father, Stephen Callender, founded and owns Bass and serves…
Tokyo’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower to be demolished
One of Japan’s most distinctive works of contemporary architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, will be demolished this month, according to the building’s new owners.The decision ends years of uncertainty surrounding the eye-catching structure, which once offered a futuristic vision of…
The big cover-up: Centre Block to be draped with ‘trompe l’oeil’ wrap during work
The federal government will soon drape Centre Block with a trompe l’oeil covering that will replicate the visage of the historic Parliament Hill building during its ongoing rehabilitation. Work to install the $3.9-million covering will begin later this spring, starting with the north…
World’s first 3D-printed apartment building constructed in China
While architectural firms compete with their designs for 3D-printed dwellings, one company in China has quietly been setting about getting the job done. In March of last year, company WinSun claimed to have printed 10 houses in 24 hours, using a proprietary 3D printer…
Ontario’s bid to speed up housing construction may do the opposite, critics say
A key provision of Ontario’s new bill meant to speed up housing construction would force municipalities that fail to make decisions on developers’ plans within tight deadlines to refund tens of thousands of dollars in application fees – a change that some urban-planning…
Creative sentencing improves workplace safety: Why don’t we use it more?
Hundreds die each year from workplace-related incidents in Canada. Alberta, in particular, has seen its fair share of recent deaths, like the man who was killed at a construction site in Cochrane last September, and the oilsands worker who was killed in northern Alberta last…
Jerome Markson announced as the recipient of the 2022 RAIC Gold Medal
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is pleased to announce Jerome Markson as the recipient of the 2022 RAIC Gold Medal. The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Gold Medal is the highest honour that the Institute can bestow in recognition of…
Canada Infrastructure Bank and Johnson Controls commit $125 million to building decarbonization retrofits
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) and Johnson Controls have signed an agreement that commits more than CAD 125 million to accelerate private sector decarbonization retrofit projects across Canada. The agreement sees the CIB investing up to CAD 100 million toward commercial, industrial, manufacturing and multi-residential buildings…
RFQ for Phase 1 of Calgary’s Green Line LRT Project released
The Green Line (LRT) Project has released the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Phase 1, from Shepard to Eau Claire, the largest infrastructure project to be constructed in our City’s history. Phase 1 will build the 18 km core of the…
Frustrated customers await money that court says P.E.I. contractor owes them
A P.E.I. contracting company owes thousands of dollars to people after either not completing jobs or doing them poorly, according to the contractor’s customers and court documents. Colton Chaulk, owner of CWD Construction, is named in five different P.E.I. Supreme Court judgments viewed by…
