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Cybersecurity and privacy concerns in the smart home have the potential to worsen with device ownership and demand for gadgets growing. In building their solutions, industry participants should therefore treat cybersecurity protections as the norm. Looking past functionality and user experience,…

Every operation is looking for an edge – whether that’s decreasing load cycle times, increasing maintenance intervals or reducing fuel costs. Diesel-electric-drive machines are a potential opportunity for an operation to find that edge. As with any new technology, the key to…

Stack Modular (Stack) and Bird Construction (Bird) are pleased to announce they have been recognized with a first-place award from the Modular Building Institute for “Permanent Modular Hotel Over 10,000 sq.ft.” for their work on the Aqsarniit Hotel and Conference Centre.…

A house-building boom across Chatham-Kent, and much of Southwestern Ontario, is leaving out one town – Wallaceburg, with not a single subdivision under construction. The snag? The owners of the majority of land designated in the town for residential development aren’t…

As provincial commerce slowly edges upward, business owners are seeking to bring steadiness to their operation while continuing to safeguard the health of their employees. Of course, for every company, whether it is in the industrial sector, a building management firm,…

Hanging plants smother the walls of a new office block proposed for Salford, giving it the look of something from an abandoned post-Covid city, reclaimed by nature. The ivy-covered tower, designed by Make Architects, has been trumpeted as “fossil-fuel free”, set to…

A Salt Lake City-based startup, Halcium, is working on the Powerpod, a technology it has dubbed the “safest, most powerful wind turbine in the world.” The Powerpod is cheaper than solar panels and more efficient in places that get less than…

The B.C. government is putting $4.2 million into a dozen mass timber research and demonstration projects to advance the technology and its use with steel and concrete for hybrid buildings. Projects include a new fire station in Saanich, which gets $500,000…

Landfills are piling up with consumer products everyday. But some recyclable resources may just be the solution for keeping up with construction industry demands such as turning used tires to make concrete stronger. The electric energy cost for flash graphene (FG) synthesis…

A shortage in the labour pool is nothing new to Muskoka, or the province as a whole, especially when it comes to the trades. However, with the influx of people relocating to Muskoka during the pandemic, that need is being felt…

The FTQ and FTQ-Construction unions are asking the Quebec government to ensure that construction sites being set up in the province’s regions during the economic recovery will employ workers from those regions. The heads of the two unions, Daniel Boyer and…

Defined by an eye-catching exterior consisting of 500 individual “rods” that will be illuminated as they sway with the prevailing wind, the aptly named Breeze of Innovation is a new tower envisioned for Silicon Valley. Assuming all goes ahead as planned,…

As Northern Ontario’s newest construction and transportation training institution, Northern Construction Academy (NCA) offers hands-on training programs in real-world construction environments and is registered as a private career college under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005.  Through the relationships built with the team at…

Statistics Canada reports that total investment in building construction increased 4.2% to $16.8 billion in February, posting a record high for the second consecutive month because of continued strength in the residential sector. On a constant dollar basis (2012=100), investment in building construction…

Canada’s forest sector is transforming — and greening the construction industry. The use of mass timber as a building material lowers emissions, promotes innovation and supports value-added manufacturing. That is why Canada is investing in the use of mass timber in building applications to…