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The Sault Community Career Centre’s Construction Apprenticeship Support Program (CASP) has partnered with the Sault Ste. Marie Construction Association, local construction sector employers and mental health service providers to present Building Resilience: A Virtual Mental Health Summit for the Construction Sector.…

The Drumheller Resiliency and Flood Mitigation Office held a virtual community engagement on Thursday, January 13 to provide additional information and details on the Downtown Dike and Riverside Drive project. Panelists included project director Deighen Blakely, Downtown Dike project manager Julia…

South Korean rescue workers at a collapsed construction site in the southern city of Gwangju located a man amid a pile of debris and broken concrete on their third day searching for six missing construction workers, officials said Thursday. Crews are…

While excavating, construction crews discovered a little slice of Calgary’s past: glass bottles and other items from a site just northeast of the Stampede grounds. Christine Leppard is the Stampede’s historian and is excited about the find. “We’re looking at bottles…

The Hydronic Industry Alliance-Commercial (HIA-C), a committee of the Radiant Professionals Alliance (RPA), has released version 6.0 of its Building Efficiency System Tool™ (BEST), an interactive commercial building HVAC system efficiency comparison application. The revised software, available online at no charge, adds…

Are you still assembling your quotes and estimates using pen & paper or Excel? Are you manually re-entering your estimates into your accounting software? In today’s fast-paced and competitive construction industry, you need to be quick and efficient to win the…

Patrick Michell, Chief of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band, announced today they have entered into an agreement with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology on a pilot project focused on climate-resilient housing options for evacuees who lost their homes in the…

The British Columbia government is investing $1 million into expanding a program to help prevent drug overdoses in the construction industry. The funding will expand the Vancouver Island Construction Association’s current Tailgate Toolkit project, a harm-reduction program that began as a…

Across North America, the construction industry is struggling to bridge the gap between demand for building projects and a shortage of skilled trade workers needed to bring those projects to life. For example, within the next five years, Canada will face…

Chandos Construction Inc. (“Chandos”) and Bird Construction Inc. (“Bird”) are pleased to announce they have entered into a three-year strategic partnership for the Building Good initiative (“Building Good”). Established in 2021, Building Good is a thought leadership initiative that aims to…

Cadillac Fairview (CF) is pleased to announce its latest endeavour in the ongoing evolution of its flagship retail asset, CF Toronto Eaton Centre, with a $60 million refurbishment of its galleria skylight roof. The existing glass will be replaced with the latest materials and…

The premier event in commissioning, energy management, and building analytics and diagnostics, CxEnergy 2022, announced its technical program today. The event takes place April 19-22, 2022 in Orlando, FL at the Caribe Royale. CxEnergy draws hundreds of the nation’s leading commissioning…

Ecobot, the construction software company driving the digitization of environmental permitting, has raised an additional $2.81 million in funding. Ecobot is a cloud-based platform that optimizes mandatory pre-construction environmental permitting and enables customers to leverage field data to streamline mitigation banking…

It can be easy to take concrete for granted. This versatile building material is so familiar, such an ubiquitous presence in the built environment, that we sometimes stop paying attention. Of course, industry professionals who are looking for ways to improve…

Since the mid-1990s, a type of steel column that commonly features slender cross-sectional elements has become more prevalent in buildings along the West Coast of the United States and in other seismically active regions. Although these columns have complied with modern…