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Plans to build a 98-storey tower on Toronto’s Yonge Street garnered gasps when first proposed in 2017, developer Cresford aiming to bring a glittering new condo building known as YSL (Yonge Street Living) Residences to the city’s skyline. What would have become Toronto’s…

In late 2019, mere weeks before the first coronavirus case in the U.S. was detected 60 miles south, the city council of Bellingham, Washington, gathered for a presentation from the town’s Climate Action Plan Task Force, a group of nine community…

Did you know that about two-thirds of the fish that is caught is discarded as waste? Sometimes, fish waste like bones, heads, fins, and scales are used as fertilizers and fish oil, but much of it ends up in landfills. That is unless…

Curry Supply is pleased to unveil its brand-new line of service truck bodies: Keystone and Keystone Pro. With a heavy-duty aluminum design and the Pro option for a crane body, Curry’s latest addition to the service body world offers superior construction…

BRADEN has introduced new direct bolt-on utility winch bumper options for PACCAR New Medium Duty Trucks as part of its popular UBX20 and PD18 Utility Bumper and Planetary Recovery Winch Systems. Available now for Kenworth and Peterbilt Aero and Vocational models,…

CarbonCure’s CO₂ technology is changing the face of concrete. Today, over 400 concrete plants are using CarbonCure to make sustainable concrete for a variety of projects—from residential driveways, schools, and airports to Amazon’s Headquarters in North Virginia. For a deeper understanding…

Having the ability to mitigate the impact of delays is a valuable skill set for any PM or owner, but developing the systems and skills to get ahead of the problems and prevent delays from occurring in the first place, is…

Procore Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: PCOR), a leading provider of construction management software, today announced multiple platform updates to further meet the needs of its global customers — from document control to data and privacy enhancements. Used in over 125 countries, Procore’s…

U.S. single-family home building fell for a second straight month in August as builders continued to struggle with shortages of materials and labour, suggesting the housing market could remain a drag on economic growth in the third quarter. The report from…

A Melbourne business owner says he will have to lay off his own son after the state government made COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory at construction sites. Peter Wishart said on Tuesday he was “devastated” at having to dismiss three employees – including…

A “hall of shame” listing of China’s top 10 “ugliest” buildings has kicked off with 87 bizarre designs in the running, including a violin-shaped church and an Inner Mongolia hotel in the form of a monstrous babushka doll. Over the past 11 years a Chinese architecture website,…

MIT researchers find emissions of U.S. buildings and pavements can be reduced by around 50 percent even as concrete use increases. As the most consumed material after water, concrete is indispensable to the many essential systems — from roads to buildings…

France’s Notre Dame Cathedral is finally stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it, more than two years after the shocking fire that tore through its roof, knocked down its spire and threatened to bring the rest of the…

The endless towers are the first thing you notice upon arriving in China, and not just because, in most cities, they tend to line the roads leading to the airport. Over the past three decades, China’s cities have welcomed the largest…

Swiss engineers, led by ETH Zurich, who developed a hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM) that simultaneously bores while using 3D printing to form the tunnel lining behind as it progresses has been singled out for a tunnelling award. The Groundhog…