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One of Australia’s major construction companies. Probuild, which is working on a number of high-profile projects around the country, has collapsed. Deloitte has been appointed as administrator to handle the company collapse after Probuild’s parent company, WBHO South Africa, announced it…

Hudson’s Bay is proposing to turn its flagship Vancouver store into a part-office tower, part-retail space, part-event space and part-green commuter hub – the latest move in the continuing transformation of department stores and city downtowns. Company officials announced Wednesday they…

Luxembourg-based Leko Labs, a construction startup that’s developing sustainable wood-based building materials as an alternative to steel and concrete and applying automation to construction methods, has closed a $21 million Series A round of funding. The raise is led by urban sustainability-focused…

Bob Hunter is no stranger to entertainment venues, having had a hand in the growth of B.C. Place Stadium, Rogers Centre, Scotiabank Arena, BMO Field and the Raptors’ practice facility. Now senior vice-president of OverActive Media, the former Maple Leaf Sports…

When a visitor pulls into his long driveway, Charles Fipke steps onto his porch, large food-storage container in hand. He reaches in and tosses fistfuls of birdseed off the stoop and around the rental car. “There’s a quail’s nest nearby,” Fipke explains.…

Having reliable back-up electricity during a power outage is an integral part of highrise commercial and residential buildings, large industrial complexes and institutional occupancies. This back up power source is capable of operating under supervisory conditions to provide electricity to the…

McGill spinoff CarbiCrete has developed a formula for producing Concrete Masonry Units (CMUs) that not only are cheaper to make, faster to cure and stronger than normal CMUs, but that also sequester carbon in their manufacture. Find out more about this…

The Energy Management Association is teaming up with TOSIBOXto host a free AIA-approved webinar focused on automation for connecting and securing buildings and systems in a digital IP-based world. Viewers will learn how they can protect themselves and their brands from…

In the beginning, all that Stephan Schlamminger wanted to do was to write down an equation that would help him obtain a more precise value for G, the gravitational constant that determines the strength of the attraction between massive objects. To…

The current economic climate and what that will mean for Ontario’s industrial, commercial and institutional construction sector will be in focus at the Ontario Construction Secretariat’s 22nd annual State of the Industry and Outlook Conference. Industry experts — including OCS Director of Research…

Canada’s national voice for architecture, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), would like to congratulate our regulatory partners for creating a national organization to develop and adopt nationally recognized standards and programs to meet their regulatory responsibilities. The Regulatory Organizations of Architecture…

High above the field at the recent Super Bowl, a tiny robot was hanging in tension. Fixed on wires and capable of skyrocketing and nosediving in three dimensions, the robot is also a video camera called SkyCam, now a staple in sports…

Builders of the massive Mississauga-Brampton Hurontario light rail transit (LRT) line reached a safety milestone last Friday . They’ve now gone more than two million hours of work without a lost time injury (LTI), according to Metrolinx, the provincial agency in charge…

The diary of Kee begins on a dairy farm A new mechanical process developed in the late 1920s to milk cows was a boon to productivity, but advances in technology often require adaptations. George Gascoigne, a dairy farmer in Reading, England,…

by Tooey Courtemanche, Procore Founder, President, and CEO It all started with an idea. And the idea was this: to transform the industry that I grew up in and love–the construction industry. And to build tools that were not only easy…