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Magna Contracting and Management Inc. and Lancor Concrete, and a supervisor with Lancor, have been charged in connection with a fatal accident in downtown St. John’s two years go. Service NL announced the charges Monday with come under the Occupational Health…

When it comes to keeping buildings energy efficient, windows certainly pose a challenge. It was with this quandary in mind that a British scientist has created a new type of window – one that’s filled with water. There are two main…

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives want to fast-track construction of thousands of homes — including affordable housing — at more than a dozen new transit stations to help Ontario rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Star has learned. The Tories on Tuesday will…

The New Zealand government unveiled plans for a program which aims to tackle greenhouse gas emissions in the building and construction sector, and potentially futureproofs the built environment against the impacts of climate change. Initially, the Building for Climate Change program…

Once again, Zensurance has expanded the scope of their contractors insurance coverage and now offers Totten Group’s Contractor Pollution Liability Insurance policy. With instant online pricing available up to $5,000,000 coverage and a maximum coverage of $10M, this insurance plan is…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used to solve problems in industries like finance and healthcare, however, the construction industry has generally had a slower rate for adopting such new technologies. This prompted Giatec to launch Roxi™, the world’s first AI program for…

Canadian-made contact tracing solution | Building permits bounce back | More news Ottawa-based Caber Trace is introducing a subscription-based contact tracing solution for the construction industry that features hardhat mounted Bluetooth beacons that provide visual and physical distancing cues to each…

Craft and construction kits have been a blessing in our recent lockdown phases, and now there’s a new one that might appeal to those interested in tinkering with robots. ArmPal is a robot arm kit that you build yourself, then pit…

COVID-19 restrictions have been difficult for everyone, but other than health, there is something positive coming out of recent events. Sanitation at construction sites, long a concern for workers, has vastly improved, notes Jim Noon, President of the Vancouver Island Building Trades Council.…

Geospatial industry continues to evolve through a process of collaboration for almost every industry sectors all over the world, and as expected, the AEC industry is no exception to this. Though BIM continues to be a significant technology driver across all…

Compared to the normally sluggish pace of most construction projects, the development of two new City of Toronto affordable housing complexes will have a kind of don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it quality. The projects – one in the west end and the other in Scarborough,…

A B.C. developer who built townhouse condos, mostly in Surrey, with roof overhangs as a solution to the leaky-condo problem, is facing at least three lawsuits from stratas, alleging the overhangs weren’t property designed or built. The strata owners of a…

The City of London has dismissed general contractor Jasper Construction from the $21-million East Lions Community Centre, with the local councillor saying the move will allow the project to move forward after delays that have put the project a year behind…

The province continues to move forward with the largest health-care infrastructure project in Nova Scotia’s history. A tender to design and build a parkade across from the Halifax Infirmary on Summer Street was awarded to Lindsay Construction Limited, today, July 2,…

Indigenous leaders in British Columbia are reacting to Thursday’s disappointment in the Supreme Court of Canada by pledging to pursue new legal challenges against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which is quietly under construction in the Lower Mainland. Pipeline opponents were dismayed to…