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HRAI is pleased to announce that in August 2021, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between HRAI, and the newly formed, Women In HVACR Canada. The purpose of the MOU is to promote and facilitate mutual cooperation and assistance between HRAI and…

Each September, MarShield joins the American Medical Association and Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging in celebrating Women in Medicine Month. Women play a crucial role in medicine. This month serves to highlight female physicians’ accomplishments and advocacy work, and shed light on health…

Urban and housing design has intimate connections to health. Poor design choices can worsen health, with underlying issues of inequality a driving factor. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate…

Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-storey apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fuelled the…

Richmondite Joshua Zhang wants to know what’s going on with his $250,000 pre-sale investment for a three-bedroom condo in the Atmosphere development on No. 3 Road.  But phone calls to the developer, South Street, by his realtor haven’t yielded any information…

A new pilot just put a robot out front of a major construction challenge in Massachusetts: the building of a new headquarters for a major life sciences company. The robot’s assignment was to draw the all-important layout grid at the job…

Dagmar is an Ontario-based construction company with extensive experience across key civil infrastructure sub-sectors including road, bridge, rail, sewer and water, and commercial-institutional sites. Over the past 80 years, Dagmar has earned a strong reputation in the construction industry for solid execution,…

MIT spinoff OpenSpace invented automated 360-degree video jobsite capture and mapping. “It’s not exactly an amazing observation,” says CEO Jeevan Kalanithi, “but a picture really is worth a thousand words.” In the world of real estate development, visual documentation of construction…

Relatives of two workers injured when an apartment building under construction in west London partially collapsed are seeking $2 million in damages from the developer of the project, the City of London and the Ontario Ministry of Labour. The lawsuit over…

Statistics Canada reports that the total value of building permits in Canada decreased 3.9% to $9.9 billion in July. All provinces except British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador posted lower values, with the majority of the national decline reported in Alberta (-23.4%). Building…

It would be very convenient if occupants of all buildings could follow the same set of fire evacuation procedures when the fire alarm system sounds in the building. While there are common elements in all fire evacuations, the actual procedures are…

The $52 million facility is being built at 200 Kennedy Rd. S. and will house more than 400 employees to serve Brampton and Mississauga once it’s finished. The new facility will be constructed to meet the LEED (Leadership in Energy and…

Even in the face of a global pandemic, the Young Builders Network (YBN) still found a way to support one of their favourite local charities, the Help Fill A Dream Foundation. Now in its eighth year, and their fifth year partnering…

China is well known for its speedy construction processes. From building a 1,000-bed, 25,000-square-meter hospital in nine days in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 to putting together livable spaces in just one day, the Asian nation is the place to be for…

The viability of a new type of road that can charging electric vehicles while in motion is being tested by engineers in the United States of America. The Indiana Department of Transportation (Indot) and Purdue University are to join forces to…