Australian building giant Probuild collapses after racking up losses
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 plan to redevelop historic downtown Vancouver building
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…
Leko Labs gets $21M to build greener
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…
Bulletin 273: Emergency Back-up Power for Buildings
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…
Made in Quebec: Building a better future, one CMU at a time
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…
What is the Future of ICI Construction Coming out of the Pandemic?
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…
65 Years to Look Back On – and Look Ahead
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,…
20 Years of Connecting the Construction Industry
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…