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Dentec is proud to now offer Burnshield® to our robust line of safety products and protective equipment. Burnshield® is an international go-to emergency burn care range of products that provide an immediate and effective method of treating burn injuries in the acute (emergency) phase. Burnshield® is a…

We’ve all been there. Instructions were clearly spelled out, reminders were sent several times, yet the vendor is still late in delivering their goods. Whether it’s rebar, windows, electrical transformers, or simply paper, not having the material delivered to a project…

Woodfibre LNG has signed an Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication, and Construction (EPFC) contract with McDermott International. The EPFC contract is an important step in advancing detailed engineering and construction scheduling work in advance of Woodfibre LNG issuing a notice to proceed. Responsibly…

The Town of Lakeshore picked the worst time to run out of municipal sewage capacity — in the midst of a building frenzy. “It’s very frustrating,” said Mayor Tom Bain. “We were booming, but now we have to do some infrastructure…

The Montreal Port Authority (MPA) officially launched the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the project’s Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain (DBFOM). The RFQ will remain open to national and international industry players for the next three months. By issuing this Request for Qualifications, the MPA…

Seven of the guardrails in a London building where a child tragically fell last month were below code, according to a report obtained by CBC News.  Inspectors at 400 Lyle Street found that the balcony where the one-year-old fell and died on…

Energy drilling activity in Canada is forecast to increase in 2022, in what the sector hopes is evidence of an industry sputtering back to life after years of decline. The 2022 Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) state-of-the-industry report, released Tuesday,…

On June 30, 2021, the Village of Lytton in British Columbia suffered a devastating and rapid-spreading wildfire. The fire killed two people, burned down 90 per cent of the village, destroyed over 100 properties, and ruined almost 40 homes in the Lytton First Nation (LFN) community.…

Protecting our environment and working towards sustainability have become near-universal values, and the design and materials used in our “built environment” have made great strides. But what about the construction phase itself? A new facility might be designed to LEED Platinum…

For Kelly Braun, Kraun Electric’s CHRO and co-owner, being a woman in the construction industry was never something she questioned. She credits her mom, who worked alongside her dad in the family business for as long as Kelly can remember. Kelly…

Ryerson University wants to build the first 100 per cent, digitally-enabled building in the world, only to tear it down in the years to come. Detailed back in March in a funding announcement, the Ryerson University Smart Campus Integration and Testing Hub (SCIT Hub) would…

Searching for new ways to build sustainable homes, Earl Forlales decided to look not into the future, but to the past. His grandparents, like generations of Filipinos, lived in a “Bahay Kubo” — a traditional, boxy, single-story bamboo hut on stilts,…

XYZ Reality, the transformational construction technology company behind Holosite, the world’s first Engineering-Grade Augmented Reality platform, reveals its ground-breaking new device: The Atom, the most accurate AR headset for construction, as part of its worldwide commercial launch. A next-generation engineering-grade AR headset,…

A passive solar-heated home needs no solar panels to heat or cool it. Rather, the energy used to heat and cool a house comes directly from the sun through skylights and windows. Some of that energy is then stored in the…

The traditional building material is cooler, cheaper, and requires less energy to make. But convincing villagers in Burkina Faso to stick with mud isn’t easy. It’s 11 a.m. on a mid-May morning in the village of Koumi, Burkina Faso, and Sanon…