Friday, October 4, 2024 
How Mighty Buildings Is Transforming Home Construction With Robotics To Address The Climate Crisis And Housing Affordability
The construction industry accounts for nearly 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with building materials accounting for 11% and building energy use for another 28%. If the industry builds all of the homes needed to meet housing demand using traditional methods…
Housing Supply Challenge – 29 applicants receive funding to develop ideas
Every Canadian deserves a safe and affordable place to call home, and in order to do that, we need innovative ideas. That is why the Government of Canada has created the 5-year, $300 million Housing Supply Challenge to further support housing supply solutions. The Honourable…
Abandoned Projects Shatter Confidence in China’s Home Market
Construction cranes stand idle in China’s Yunnan Province, on the easternmost edge of the Himalayas. Building has ground to a halt on Hainan, off the coast of Vietnam, and up in Heilongjiang, along the Russian border. Across China, tens of millions…
Proposed building heights spur controversy in plan to revitalize Ladner waterfront
A proposal to revitalize Ladner Village is being met with resistance from some residents who say the City of Delta wants buildings that are too tall for the area. Delta has been working on a plan to “reactivate” the waterfront for several years,…
Some Ontario builders are giving pre-construction homebuyers 2 choices — pay more or forget it
Dozens of would-be homebuyers who’ve invested in pre-construction units across southern Ontario say developers are trying to charge them more money in a move that, for some, hurts their chances of ever owning a home. Citing insurmountable delays and construction costs related to the pandemic, several developers…
Homeowners sue after finding out their condo tower wasn’t built to code
More than two years after finding out their building wasn’t built to code, dozens of condo owners in Surrey, B.C., are suing the developer and contractors behind the project. Homeowners with units in the building filed a lengthy lawsuit this year against…
Northland, Stadium shopping mall conversions rejuvenate communities
While the conversion of old downtown office buildings to residential is getting lots of attention these days, there are several other conversions taking place in Calgary’s inner-city neighbourhoods. Like the redevelopment of Northland Village Mall that is currently underway, or the…
Startup Says It Can Dig Tunnels Really Fast by Melting Through Rock
Instead of crushing through rock with a massive grinder, a startup called Petra is hoping to dig tunnels using superheated gas, Wired reports. In 2018, according to the magazine, the company tested the technology in an industrial park in California, heating up the…
Cancer Centre 90 per cent complete despite COVID-19 outbreak, supply chain issues
Construction on the Calgary Cancer Centre is now 90 per cent complete despite the worksite facing COVID-19 and global supply chain issues over the past year, government officials announced Friday. Premier Jason Kenney made the announcement from the construction site alongside…
Investment in Canadian building construction increases in October
Statistics Canada reports that investment in building construction increased 1.6% to $17.8 billion in October. Residential construction investment rose 1.4% to $12.9 billion in October, the first increase in five months. Quebec (+3.3%) and Saskatchewan (+16.7%) were among the provinces leading the…
Embodying Innovation at Red River College
Red River College is readying its Exchange District Campus for the arrival of its new Innovation Centre. Currently in construction by Winnipeg’s Akman Construction, the 80,000-sq.-ft. addition will house “re-imagined academic programs, innovations and entrepreneurial activities” in a net-zero environment. It…
Join us on December 16: Masterclass – Jonas Forms
Join us on Thursday December 16th at 12pm EST for Masterclass Episode 30: Jonas Forms. Construction Management Software has come a long way since the days of printed letterheads and excel templates to generate documents. With so many documents created over…
Contractor fined, homeowners charged over unpermitted shoreline walls
A contractor has been fined $13,500 for failing to get required permits before building shoreline walls in front of four Lake Huron properties. The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA) says the man pleaded guilty to five charges for failing to follow…
EU to propose requirements that countries renovate energy-guzzling buildings
The European Union is poised to propose requirements for member countries to renovate their worst-performing buildings by the end of the decade to cut emissions and make them more energy efficient, according to sources familiar with the proposals. Buildings produce more…
‘We just jumped at it’: Calgary development firm restoring heritage building in Winnipeg’s Exchange District
The old Great West Metal Building on Waterfront Drive and Alexander Avenue will be getting a makeover thanks to a development firm out of Calgary. RNDSQR is restoring the building in the Exchange District, with plans of turning the building into…
