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Strong and effective enforcement of Canada’s environmental and wildlife protection laws is one of the concrete ways we are delivering on our commitment to providing clean air, clean water, and conserving wildlife species and their habitat. On February 18, 2021, in…

The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon – the raw material for the semiconductors from…

The ACI Collection is the most comprehensive and largest single source of information on concrete design, construction, materials, and repair, with nearly 50 codes and specifications and more than 200 practices – including all guides and reports. The ACI Collection features…

Big Ass Fans is offering our latest accredited CEC presentation virtually via Zoom. Sit back and watch a 1-hour presentation covering the design benefits of minimising ductwork, improving ventilation rates, saving energy from destratification and more! About this event: Our team…

The massive Cape Breton Regional Healthcare Redevelopment Project is about to grow even more, for the wee residents of the future. Derek Mombourquette, Liberal MLA for Sydney-Whitney Pier told the Cape Breton Post Friday that new construction is being added to…

A unionized construction job site is a safer job site. A new study by the Institute for Work and Health has found that lost-time injury claims to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) are 31 per cent lower on unionized…

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says he was alarmed by revelations of a December investigation into construction practices in on-reserve water projects and said he would like to start collecting information about the performance of contractors working on First Nations infrastructure.…

Last September, 73-year-old Juan Vargas was hospitalized with the coronavirus at Laredo Medical Center in south Texas, and it was not looking good. “We all thought he was going to die,” says his son Jerry. “We were getting ready for basically…

The Ontario government is providing Facedrive Inc. with $2.5 million through the Ontario Together Fund to accelerate the deployment of its wearable contact tracing technology, TraceSCAN, which alerts users within a workplace who have been in close contact with individuals who have tested…

Two P.E.I. associations in the home construction and renovation industry say they are receiving weekly calls from home owners who are dissatisfied with the contractors or builders they’ve hired. Construction demand throughout the pandemic has been high and shows no signs of…

Brad Smith has watched construction workers finish up their day on the job, only to head off to work at another.  The executive director of Mainland Nova Scotia Building said that alone is enough to support Halifax Regional Municipality’s incoming living wage…

Newforma and Technology BIM One Inc. announced they have reached an agreement under which Newforma will acquire BIM One. With 122,000 users worldwide, Newforma is the pioneer in Project Information Management (PIM) for the design and construction industry. Newforma joins forces…

U.S. home builders started construction on homes at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 1.58 million in January, representing a 6% decrease from the previous month’s revised figure, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. Compared with January 2020, housing starts were down roughly…

Housing developers in the Russian capital built more high-rise residential complexes in 2020 than ever before, an industry report published Wednesday showed, highlighting the boom in Moscow’s construction industry despite the coronavirus pandemic. More than 860,000 square meters of living space…

The London Free Press reports that workers were allowed back onto the site of a four-storey London building under construction that partially collapsed in December, killing two and injuring several others, Ontario’s Labour Ministry says. It wasn’t immediately clear Wednesday what…