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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…

In order to facilitate the development of an updated National Standard Plumbing Code — Illustrated (NSPC), the IAPMO NSPC Committee requests proposed changes to the 2021 NSPC. All proposals are due by March 1, 2022. Proposals accepted by the technical committee will appear in the…

Many people in the concrete industry still think that high strength cures all. This is, unfortunately, not true. High-performance concrete is certainly a tempting solution for increasing your concrete’s abrasion resistance. After all, its high compressive strength does make it tough and durable…

A longtime Winnipeg construction company has filed a lawsuit against National Bank of Canada after fraudsters claiming to be a subcontractor allegedly bilked the company of nearly $410,000. The money was funneled through an account with the bank by scammers who…

The first of a growing wave of starchitect-designed towers on the border of the West End and Coal Harbour in downtown Vancouver recently topped out. Construction crews have reached the milestone of pouring the top concrete floor plate of Westbank’s Alberni…

Ottawa announced the start of a public consultations on Friday in a new step in the development of the Lac-Mégantic bypass. The consultation will take place from Jan. 21 to Feb. 4, the Federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said Thursday. The…