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Please join us in welcoming our new Central USA territory manager, Brian Nami! Brian brings with him more than 20 years of experience working with engineering and construction professionals primarily in the heavy civil, highway, and commercial construction industries. He has also earned…

Matthew Messer hauls solar panels on the roof of a home in Long Island, New York, hoisting them one by one in the 100-degree June heat. Messer is the owner of New York Solar Maintenance, but these days he’s working right…

Statistics Canada reports that investment in building construction cooled slightly in May, decreasing 1.9% to $19.4 billion. This was the first drop in seven months. Residential construction investment (-2.7%) was down for the first time since April 2020, while non-residential construction increased slightly. On…

Command Alkon, the global leader in comprehensive supply chain technology solutions for heavy building materials suppliers, haulers, and buyers, is pleased to offer TicketPro, a solution to digitize 100 percent of material and haul tickets that enter a production facility or…

Sweden wants to be the first country in the world to bring fossil-free steel onto the market. A consortium made up of SSAB, the mining company LKAB and the energy company Vattenfall is working on the Hybrit project. The goal is…

It’s been over 1,000 days since construction began on the Gordie Howe International Bridge, and there’s plenty of work ahead before the Ontario-Michigan border crossing’s anticipated completion in 2024. The milestone was reached on July 1, according to the organization leading the…

The ACI Foundation announces that applications are now being accepted from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2022-2023 academic year. Four new fellowships and two new scholarships have been added, bringing the total of annual awards available up to 32.  New…

The new safety regime is designed to prevent any repetition of the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 72 people in 2017. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick will unveil the plans in the government’s Building Safety Bill on Monday. The new system would…

The country with nearly half the globe’s 100 tallest buildings, China, has officially set a structure-height limit of 500 meters for all its future skyscrapers. According to the country’s top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), buildings taller…

With an initial investment of more than $7 million, the civil engineering firm Équipe Laurence will establish its new head office in Ste-Adèle, at 135 Sainte-Adèle Blvd., just off exit 64 of the Laurentian Autoroute: a complex that has the ambition of…

As unprecedented heat blanketed British Columbia and other parts of the Pacific Northwest, people scrambled to stores — arriving at empty shelves where air conditioners and fans used to be. Our homes, especially rental apartments and condos, aren’t livable in the…

In Egypt, a huge “New Administrative Capital” is being built, approximately 45km (28 miles) to the east of Cairo, on a swath of desert equal to the size of Singapore. If you take a walk or drive across Cairo, you may…

Construction on Calgary’s new arena has yet to break ground, but the estimated budget is already up to $60 million higher than the price tag agreed upon in 2019.  Calgary city council heard an update on the event centre project in…

A Halifax-based company is building its first commercial tidal power generator in Cape Breton and it expects to begin selling electricity soon after it installs its technology in the Bay of Fundy later this year. Jamie MacNeil, executive vice-president of BigMoon…

A piece of land south of London that formerly housed a massive of source of income for families in southwestern Ontario has been sold, but there’s no word on what its buyer has planned. Construction is now underway at the site…