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When the scientists aboard the International Space Station direct their thermal camera at Los Angeles, standing out from the sweltering red and orange blob is a crescent of cool, blueish-white deep in the San Fernando Valley. Greg Spotts, Chief Sustainability Officer…

Real estate construction is a big producer of carbon emissions. According to the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, the largely grounded transportation industry produced 23 per cent of global carbon emissions in 2020. Compare that with 38 per cent of global…

Lowe’s Canada, one of Canada’s leading home improvement retailers operating or servicing over 450 corporate and affiliated stores under different banners, is exclusively launching the new Eklipse collection: high-quality pre-assembled Canadian cabinets that are easy to install and designed for different…

Devimco Immobilier and its partners, the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ and Fiera Real Estate, today launched the first phase of the major Auguste & Louis condominiums project on the site of the former Maison de Radio-Canada. Last year, Devimco Immobilier signed an agreement with Groupe Mach…

A new real estate data subscription service has been launched by UrbanToronto covering the Greater Toronto Area).  Centred on Toronto and covering real estate construction and development from Burlington to Oshawa to Newmarket, Ontario, URBANTORONTO PRO (UTPro) tracks planning, construction and development in the GTA with validated research data gathered…

EMBLEM Developments receives the prestigious BILD Award for Best Suite Design. Nominated in early July, the Chenille Suite at EMBLEM’s 1 Jarvis community in Hamilton was immediately acknowledged for its unique design, masterful use of space and incredible functionality. This was evidenced by…

As part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability, Aecon Group Inc. (“Aecon”) recently completed a pilot of the innovative ECR25 Electric compact excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment, on a project in Toronto, Ontario. Aecon is the first construction company in Canada to use this model of electric,…

Construction projects often take months, or even years. With the initial bid being submitted months before the project even starts, it can be hard to anticipate changes in cost over the duration of a project. In fact, according to KPMG, only 31%…

Menkes Developments Ltd is proud to share its award-winning office tower 25 York Street (Telus Harbour) has been recertified for BOMA BEST® at the Platinum level, achieving the highest score globally at an astonishing 99.2%. It’s not the first time the…

Allan Robinson says he and his wife, Debbie, saved for a lifetime to build their new home in Minden Hills, Ont. Even though construction of the home is almost complete, Robinson says they can’t move in any time soon because they can’t…

Jim Church is blazing a trail for condo strata councils in the region. “The wave is coming,” said the recently retired physician. Church is the strata council vice president of his 29-unit Cordova Bay condo building. Over the past year, Church…

Construction of the first of three 15-storey mixed-use apartment towers in downtown Moncton is ahead of schedule, as groundwork nears completion at 20 Record Street. “Things are going very well. We’re further ahead than we thought we’d be at this time,”…

Dutch building firm CyBe Construction has begun working with concrete specialist Betonindustrie Brievengat (BIB) to build its first 3D printed homes in the Caribbean. Currently under construction on the island of Curaçao, the deluxe houses are set to be luxuriously-appointed, with open office spaces, as…

For millennia humankind has dug downward for shelter, security, and comfort. Born out of pure necessity, using nothing but the ever-present earth, humankind created architecture by subtraction. In Ethiopia, monolithic churches were hewn out of rich volcanic rock. In India, elaborate…

GIS and AEC professionals are finding new ways to collaborate and share data, thanks to some recent software rollouts. Much of the impetus stems from a partnership between industry heavyweights Esri and Autodesk, which first joined forces in 2017 to integrate their respective technologies.…