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EllisDon recently announced the appointment of Max Mantha to the role of Senior Vice President of Eastern Canada, and the appointment of Richard Whyte to the role of Vice President and Area Manager, Toronto Civil. “I am very proud of the growth of EllisDon’s Eastern Civil…

Among the many things we didn’t worry about a year and a half ago was the quality of the air in the malls where we shopped and offices where we worked. But as the third wave of COVID-19 finally begins to…

Timmons city council has agreed to proceed to the design development phase for the Golden Manor Redevelopment Project. Golden Manor administrator Carol Halt presented an update on the project, including the current schematic design, during Tuesday’s meeting. “Our team set out…

The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) last week completed Technical Committee Meetings toward the development of the 2024 editions of the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®) and Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC®), which will update the 2021 UPC and UMC, American National Standards governing the installation…

Contractors on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion were granted permission to begin tunnelling beneath Burnaby Mountain on Wednesday, and by Friday project opponents started new rounds of protests arguing for an end to it. The group Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver planned…

The COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks in several communities across Nunavut have brought the Inuit housing crisis into focus. Inadequate and unsafe housing is endemic in many Inuit communities and has been blamed for poor health outcomes and susceptibility to infectious disease for decades. And these problems have…

Ontario’s construction, infrastructure, and transportation industries may come to a grinding halt by the mid of June, reports the Ontario Compensation Employees Union (OCEU)/ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1750, whose employer rejected several proposals to address workplace barriers…

A key supplier of materials for the Hard Rock Hotel construction project tried to warn the builders they needed more steel supports on the upper floors, but those supports were never added before the partially built 18-story high-rise collapsed, according to…

As the mostly widely used material on Earth, concrete has a massive carbon footprint that scientists are working to chip away at in all sorts of ways. Recent research projects have demonstrated how the wonder material graphene could play a role…

Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. But how about civil engineering and city planning? How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments?…

Maritime Launch Services Ltd., owner of Canada’s first commercial spaceport, is pleased to announce that it has selected a number of Nova Scotian firms to advance design and preparations for construction of the launch complex located near Canso, Nova Scotia. “We have selected a…

A construction boom along with supply shortages and wild price swings thanks to COVID-19 have left local contractors struggling to meet deadlines and cost commitments. The Windsor Construction Association is hoping to help members by urging public sector clients, including school…

The vision behind a new affordable housing project in Bradford West Gwillimbury is becoming clearer. During Tuesday’s committee of the whole meeting, County of Simcoe councillors got a closer look at the detailed design plans for the County of Simcoe affordable…

Moncton’s planning advisory committee gave its approval for a trio of 15-storey buildings on vacant land in the New Brunswick city’s downtown. Three 12-storey towers are proposed over a three-storey podium of ground floor commercial space and more than 430 underground…

The witch in the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale might have been onto something with her edible, child-enticing house. A research team at the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo has figured out how to make durable, strong…