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A culturally significant burial site was discovered this fall on a construction site in the Prince Albert area. The site – the location of which has not been publicly identified – contains the remains of five people believed to be of…

As the world continues to navigate pandemic restrictions, many businesses have relied on outdoor seating spaces to continuing serving their communities throughout COVID-19.  As a result of the nuanced and regulated nature of adding outdoor seating, the International Code Council has…

LafargeHolcim is calling on the world’s brightest students to reinvent the building industry, along with its partner Witteveen+Bos, a Dutch engineering and consultancy firm and with the support of COBOD and Ecole des Ponts. Students in engineering, architecture, and material science are encouraged to…

Pen was put to paper on Tuesday morning to complete a historic agreement that will bring labour stability to Cape Breton’s construction industry over the next five years. The contract signing by members of the Cape Breton Building and Construction Trades…

Skills Ontario’s #SkillsAtHome challenge series inspires Ontarians to explore skilled trades and technologies, and the fourteenth challenge, the #SkillsFortChallenge, launches today. For this challenge, participants are to build a blanket-covered structure in their home using household items. They must prepare a…

Saturated with smart devices, consumers are frequently turning to experiences that leverage multiple devices and bundle them into distinct service-based ecosystems, says CABA’s Landmark “Smart Home as a Service” (SHaaS) Research Report. The new business model, “Smart Home as a Service,”…

Today marks the second annual national celebration day of the construction industry. In collaboration with Canadian Construction Association’s (CCA) partner associations, National Construction Day recognizes and celebrates the dedicated, hard-working people instrumental in building, maintaining and connecting our communities through vital…

Mississauga is trying to eliminate a smoggy past and make a hard u-turn toward a green, dense and environmentally sustainable future. Nowhere is the drastic contrast between past and future more blinding than the shores of Lake Ontario. Visitors to South…

As reported in the Associated Press, U.S. construction spending rose 0.3% in September, the fourth straight monthly gain after a coronavirus-caused spring swoon, although a smaller gain than analysts had expected. The Commerce Department reported Monday that the September gain follows…

Over the last month, we’ve seen the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Canada, as in many other parts of the world, we’ve seen the economy shut down while we work from home. As governments provide the much-needed support to…

Retired construction entrepreneur Antonio (Tony) Accurso and four companies he owned in the past have been fined more than $4 million for provincial tax evasion. The sentence was delivered at the Laval courthouse Friday morning. Accurso and the companies — Simard…

According to James Morrison, director, performance solutions operations, for Finning, during COVID-19 one of the ways they were able to support customers was the use of remote monitoring technology. “When COVID-19 started, access to sites and equipment was limited, but we…

Manitoba Hydro has temporarily cut the number of workers at the Keeyask Generating Station construction site in northern Manitoba as part of a measured strategy to contain COVID-19 cases identified through ongoing testing of the project’s entire workforce, the Crown corporation…

The worker who found a noose at a construction site at Toronto’s Michael Garron Hospital in September says the grim discovery was shocking, but also not at all surprising as acts of racism are rampant in his industry. The construction worker, who spoke…

Welcome to this week’s edition of the News Round Up published by Construction Links Network.  Top news this week includes the announcement that the Canadian Construction Association launched a Construction R&D Portal that will give construction leaders unprecedented visibility into world-class…