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Plans for a 176-unit affordable rental building in downtown Kelowna are being praised for meeting a significant community need. During a Tuesday meeting where a height variance allowing for a 20-storey tower at 1451 Bertram St. was approved, Kelowna city councillors and…

The construction industry is a massive producer of carbon dioxide globally and, with this in mind, a team of researchers and scientists at ETH Zurich has been working on new construction techniques that could help the industry clean up its act.…

A new housing development will support Okanagan Indian Band members to stay or return to their home community, as construction begins on 16 affordable, on-reserve rental homes. “Our government is proud to be working with the Okanagan Indian Band to help…

Ontario is putting people’s safety first with the construction of a $20 million, state-of-the-art Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment to serve the people of Cambridge. Solicitor General Sylvia Jones and OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique were on-site today to break ground on…

The Associated Air Balance Council (AABC) is teaming up with Questions & Solutions Engineering and Engineered Air Balance Co. to host a new AIA-approved webinar in their TAB Talk series on October 27th. No HVAC system has a chance of functioning…

People don’t like change. This statement couldn’t be closer to the truth, especially in the construction industry, where companies consistently struggle with onboarding their employees into new technologies and systems. Why Most Onboarding Initiatives Fail Before we get started, it’s essential…

Briggs & Stratton will be in attendance at The American Rental Association’s Annual Trade Show and Convention, bringing along the current lineup of Vanguard® innovative power solutions, including new swappable battery technology and the 400 EFI/ETC single-cylinder engine. For those interested…

Being a leader in today’s climate certainly has its challenges. Ever since we began our working lives, we associate what we do with where we do it. Now, even in the most field-present jobs, structures have changed and many business owners,…

The International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation (IWSH) has presented three new IWSH Awards to Milwaukee School of Engineering students Kathryn Ashley and Sarah Ceurvorst and Plumbers Local 68 director of Marketing and Recruitment Jeremy Pavlich.  The awards were presented by IAPMO President David Gans and Vice President Steve Panelli as part of the…

The new courthouse in downtown Fredericton will be one of the tallest buildings in the city after a height variance was approved Wednesday at a special meeting of the planning advisory committee. Work is expected to begin by the end of November…

CostCertified, a Canadian startup which provides real-time, interactive residential construction estimates, raised $8.45 million in a seed round of funding. FUSE, a Pacific Northwest venture firm which counts former Microsoft CFO John Connors and Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner as venture…

A unique baseload renewables project that combines the world’s largest hydrogen power plant with a 16MW electrolyser, a 3MW fuel cell, 55MW of solar panels and 20MW/38MWh of batteries has begun construction in French Guiana. The set-up will enable the Centrale…

With concerns about climate change mounting to a fever pitch in recent years, it’s no wonder that many countries have sought to shift their power consumption to renewable energy sources. And one of the most popular options amongst these more sustainable alternatives is wind energy.…

Gilbane Building Company and Nextera Robotics have entered into a joint-venture partnership to develop a transformational artificial intelligence platform that utilizes a fleet of autonomous mobile robots to track construction progress and provide safety monitoring at job sites. The new robotics…

Menkes Developments Ltd. and QuadReal recently broke ground in a ceremony marking the start of construction at Festival, the four-tower community which will be the largest in the heart of the burgeoning Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC) and include the tallest building…