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Utility professionals were in the operator’s seat last week in Louisville as The Utility Expo brought the industry back together. Organizations from across the country, including Duke Energy, CenterPoint Energy, Michels, Intren, and Henkels & McCoy, Inc., sent representatives ranging from…

Construction on the problem-plagued $1-billion project to build a new sewage treatment plant in North Vancouver has reportedly ground to a halt this week, as part of a contract dispute between Metro Vancouver and its primary contractor, Acciona. Gears stopped turning…

As Canada’s largest-ever private investment moves toward export of liquefied natural gas from northern B.C., Premier John Horgan’s government is spending heavily to wean domestic users away from gas heat to electricity. Horgan and Energy Minister Bruce Ralston are walking a…

ASHRAE, the Associated Air Balance Council (AABC), the AABC Commissioning Group (ACG) and the Energy Management Association (EMA) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing the organizations’ relationship. The MOU was signed by Mike Kelly, TBE, CxA, AABC President,…

For thousands of years, mankind has engineered remarkable structures such as the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China. More recently, visionary engineers have undertaken massive transportation and communications projects that have pushed the boundaries of human ingenuity. Here is a roundup…

Plans for major renovations at the Elora Community Centre are moving ahead. At Monday’s meeting, council approved hiring a Toronto-based architectural firm to develop and design the project. The township learned it had received just over $3.6 million in provincial and federal…

The Impact The COVID-19 pandemic caught the entire world off guard, immediately changing our lives as we knew them. This was a historic shutdown on so many levels, hitting all industries in different ways. The construction industry was hit extremely hard,…

Graham has been awarded the construction of a new, privately developed student housing project adjacent to Washington State University’s main campus in Pullman. The project consists of four buildings totaling approximately 280,000 sq. ft. and will create an additional 207 student…

Pedro García Hernández, 48, is a carpenter in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco, a rainforest-shrouded region of the country where about half of the residents live below the poverty line. He ekes out a living making about 2,500 pesos ($125.17)…

In May, Procore Technologies launched its IPO and the shares jumped by 31%. The company, which operates a leading cloud-based platform to manage construction projects, has over 800 customers and the ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is more than $400 million. But if you look…

A Vancouver development company wants to introduce a rental concept that is gaining ground in major cities in the U.S. It’s called coliving rental, and Rize Alliance Properties hopes to build the first project of its kind in the Lower Mainland.…

Canada’s housing agency said the country is now at high risk of a sharp correction in home valuations as the continued appreciation in prices becomes unmoored from economic fundamentals. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. raised its market risk assessment to…

Kubota Canada Ltd., in partnership with the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), has launched nominations for its 2021 Community Hero contest. Now in its fourth year, Kubota’s Community Hero contest has brought attention to and commemorated thousands of Canadians who are making…

As a leader in the construction services industry, EllisDon is responsible for protecting and improving the communities in which we work and to respond to the changing environment. The science is clear – we must reduce the impacts of climate change. Business…

Bird Construction Inc. (“Bird”) announced that Concert-Bird Partners has achieved financial close on the previously disclosed contract with Alberta’s government for the Design, Build, Finance, and Maintain (DBFM) contract for five Alberta high schools.  The project has a total combined contract value in excess of $300…