Friday, October 4, 2024 
Vacant for 50 years, one of Newfoundland’s oldest residential buildings is getting some TLC
The sounds of hammers and woodworking will soon ring out over Bonavista as renovations start on the Alexander Bridge House, one of the oldest known residential properties in the province. The Georgian-style home was built between 1811 and 1814 on Church…
Family’s small prefab farmhouses designed to make rural life more sustainable
A Knowlesville couple are building affordable, small farmhouses for the province they have grown to love. Tegan and Leland Wong-Daugherty have been living in rural western New Brunswick for 25 years and recognized a need not only for affordable shelter, but also one that could provide…
Using LiFi in the Construction Industry
As technology evolves, it provides the construction industry with additional tools to make processes more efficient and effective. Undoubtedly, companies of every size have benefitted from the myriad uses of WiFi (wireless fidelity), and now there is a new generation of…
The single-staircase radicals have a good point
The Seattle-based architect Michael Eliason has a number of complaints about the way America makes its apartment buildings. The components are inferior, he says: The best sliding doors and windows are made elsewhere. The designs rarely accommodate larger families. And there are too…
San Francisco’s ‘leaning’ skyscraper tilted at a rate of up to 3 inches last year
San Francisco’s swanky Millennium Tower has been slowly sinking for years — and, as a result, the 58-story skyscraper tilted at a rate of up to 3 inches to the north and west last year, according to the engineer tasked with…
Investment in Canadian building construction advances 1.2% in November
Statistics Canada reports that investment in building construction advanced 1.2% to $18.0 billion in November with increases in every component except for industrial construction. On a constant dollar basis (2012=100), investment in building construction grew 0.5% to $12.3 billion. Multi-unit construction pushes residential investment up…
This Dutch construction innovation shows it’s possible to quickly retrofit every building
Every building on the planet will have to get to net-zero emissions by the middle of the century to meet global climate goals—and since most of the buildings that will exist then have already been built, that means a massive number…
Building Resilience: A Virtual Mental Health Summit for the Sault Ste. Marie Construction Sector
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.…
Downtown Dike construction cost estimated at $1.9 million
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 rescuers locate man at collapsed construction site
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…
Excavation revealing artifacts from Calgary’s past
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…
BEST 6.0: The Building Efficiency System Tool™ Now Available for Download
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…
Join us on January 20: Masterclass – Generate Accurate Quotes in a Fraction of the Time
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…
Partners launch resilient housing solutions project at Kanaka Bar to assist with rebuild of fire-ravaged Lytton
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…
B.C. investing $1M into preventing toxic drug deaths in construction industry
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…
