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A new pilot just put a robot out front of a major construction challenge in Massachusetts: the building of a new headquarters for a major life sciences company. The robot’s assignment was to draw the all-important layout grid at the job…

Dagmar is an Ontario-based construction company with extensive experience across key civil infrastructure sub-sectors including road, bridge, rail, sewer and water, and commercial-institutional sites. Over the past 80 years, Dagmar has earned a strong reputation in the construction industry for solid execution,…

MIT spinoff OpenSpace invented automated 360-degree video jobsite capture and mapping. “It’s not exactly an amazing observation,” says CEO Jeevan Kalanithi, “but a picture really is worth a thousand words.” In the world of real estate development, visual documentation of construction…

Relatives of two workers injured when an apartment building under construction in west London partially collapsed are seeking $2 million in damages from the developer of the project, the City of London and the Ontario Ministry of Labour. The lawsuit over…

Statistics Canada reports that the total value of building permits in Canada decreased 3.9% to $9.9 billion in July. All provinces except British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador posted lower values, with the majority of the national decline reported in Alberta (-23.4%). Building…

It would be very convenient if occupants of all buildings could follow the same set of fire evacuation procedures when the fire alarm system sounds in the building. While there are common elements in all fire evacuations, the actual procedures are…

The $52 million facility is being built at 200 Kennedy Rd. S. and will house more than 400 employees to serve Brampton and Mississauga once it’s finished. The new facility will be constructed to meet the LEED (Leadership in Energy and…

Even in the face of a global pandemic, the Young Builders Network (YBN) still found a way to support one of their favourite local charities, the Help Fill A Dream Foundation. Now in its eighth year, and their fifth year partnering…

China is well known for its speedy construction processes. From building a 1,000-bed, 25,000-square-meter hospital in nine days in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 to putting together livable spaces in just one day, the Asian nation is the place to be for…

The viability of a new type of road that can charging electric vehicles while in motion is being tested by engineers in the United States of America. The Indiana Department of Transportation (Indot) and Purdue University are to join forces to…

The IAPMO Group is pleased to announce it has concluded a rigorous approval process to join the Amazon Service Provider Network (SPN), becoming a valuable resource for manufacturers and distributors wishing to sell their products on Amazon’s vast global marketplace. Created…

Graham was recently awarded the CDN$53 million Falcon One project in Edmonton, AB. As the name implies, it is the first of Falcon Towers’ two phases. Falcon One will be a 30-storey, 240-unit residential high-rise tower located in the City’s downtown.…

Lowe’s Canada, one of Canada’s leading home improvement retailers, is bringing back its Lowe’s Canada Heroes campaign starting September 1. Over a period of 30 days, customers of participating stores will be invited to make donations at the cash register in…

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes in a new report that “the solutions for addressing embodied carbon in buildings have not been widely studied in the United States, leaving a significant knowledge gap for engineers, architects, contractors, policymakers, and building owners.”…

For the 13th consecutive week, framing lumber prices are down. On Friday, the cash market price of lumber fell to $389 per thousand board feet, according to data from Fastmarkets Random Lengths, an industry trade publication. That’s down 74% from its $1,515 all-time high…