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The chief climate officer for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the federal agency has “lots underway” to encourage the construction of more sustainable housing. Steven Mennill says a first priority will be developing standards for what makes a residence more…

Commercial builder Chandos Construction announced a commitment to be net-zero by 2040, a pledge its president made on the sidelines of the United Nations’ COP meeting in Glasgow. To kickstart that commitment, Chandos purchased UN-certified carbon credits to offset the carbon emissions…

Tranter has received an order from a Scandinavian based off-shore EPC company for a North-Atlantic Off-shore wind farm project. The wind farm will supply a major US city with high voltage electricity through the latest HVDC technology developed for the off-shore…

Nelcos Distribution Inc., an official distributor of Bodaq Interior Film in North America, is pleased to announce the official reopening of its Ontario office in Toronto. In line with the goal to expand its services, Nelcos Distribution Inc. is reopening its office in Toronto…

Pattern Energy Group LP announced that it has started construction of its Lanfine Wind power project in Alberta, Canada. The 150 megawatt (MW) project, which will provide enough clean energy to power approximately 25,000 homes in Alberta annually, is expected to enter full commercial…

As construction companies struggle with finding skilled labor, military veterans are a segment of the labor force that deserves attention. Vets currently make up about 7% of the construction workforce and each year approximately 200,000 vets transition out of the military. Those…

Pedro Ocana says he’s lost three customers, at least temporarily, as the supply chain disruptions, project timelines and price increases have impacted his custom-home building business in Calgary. The president of Sunset Homes says those customers are waiting until the uncertainty and unpredictability affecting many…

No matter your experience with waterproofing membrane failure, waterproofing breaches are not so easy to spot. In fact, according to one article in The Construction Specifier, the most minor-looking of leaks could be a sign. Depending on where and how the waterproofing…

Steady population growth and the accompanying rise in urban density increases the risk to human life and damage to property caused by natural disasters. In 2017, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimated the annual cost of earthquake damage in the…

There are more than a few enchanting places to see in Paris that do not include the city’s iconic Eiffel Tower. However, her omnipresence in peoples imagination is inevitable. A cultural icon of France, the Eiffel Tower is locally dubbed “La…

China has restricted construction of very tall buildings, calling them vanity projects. It comes at a time when offices across the globe are filled with empty desks and some workers are wary of sharing hermetically sealed spaces. So does the skyscraper…

Tops Tools is a family business in that special, old-school kinda way. It’s just a father and a son doing what they do best. “Pretty soon here, I’ll let my son take over the whole thing and do all the hard…

Among the rhetoric of climate change bingo and platitudes, there’s a term I’ve been hearing a lot at COP26 this week — green steel. But what is it, why does it matter, and what does it actually mean for us, the consumers and…

It’s no stretch to call Canada’s Yuill Herbert a climate adaptation guru. The principal of Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) has worked on climate action plans for 40 communities, including some of Canada’s largest cities, Toronto and Vancouver among them. His latest…

An American billionaire is defending his plans for a massive university dormitory in which 94 per cent of the 4,500 student bedrooms do not have a window. Charlie Munger, a 97-year-old investor for Berkshire Hathaway and one of Warren Buffet’s closest colleagues,…