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Students in Parkland County are splitting time between the classroom and a construction site. Grade 10 students from the area are building a duplex from the ground up. It’s part of a partnership between Parkland School Division and Coventry Homes, where kids are able…

Ontario has appointed five members to a Skilled Trades Panel for a nine-month term. Michael Sherrard, Jason Ottey, Shaun Scott, Melanie Winter and Melissa Young will be advising Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, on ways to modernize…

The enormous project to dam the Churchill River in central Labrador to create a massive hydro-electric project is now the subject of a $4 billion dollar lawsuit by the indigenous Innu of the region. The massive project is a joint venture…

Two construction companies and a foreman who failed to provide fall-protection safety equipment to their workers have been fined for a workplace accident that has left an Island man severely disabled. Ryan Mahar, 33, of Emerald, P.E.I., fell from a scaffold…

Are you doubling up on payroll processes/systems? Are you thinking of using Sage 100 Contractor payroll? If the answer is yes, then keep reading… Scenario You have one system that collects time and the other system does accounting. The two systems…

On a hot summer afternoon, the North Maitland River in Southwestern Ontario trickles lazily past crumbling concrete. The Gorrie Dam – what’s left of it –awaits removal. Its destruction had been long foretold. Following a damaging flood in 1974, engineers concluded…

The urgency of attracting a new young workforce to the construction trades is looming ever larger. We’ve known for a while that the retiring Baby Boomer generation will leave a big hole in the workforce – one that Millennials seem reluctant…

At a time when many buildings are not fully occupied due to COVID-19, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) have developed a guide to help building managers address water system stagnation.…

Nathan Medcalf is launching several new brands to serve the construction industry. The first brand will unite several digital properties including heavy equipment fan page, Heavy Equipment Junkies and Construction News News—a show that intersects construction news with media profiles and…

Adding to an already successful awards season, Minto Communities GTA has been recognized with a 2020 EnerQuality Award in the Building Innovation category for a forward-thinking Air Tightness Testing Pilot project at their Yorkville high-rise Minto Yorkville Park. Undertaking this pilot…

Statistics Canada reports that total investment in building construction increased 5.0% to $16.0 billion in August. Residential sector investment increased 8.2% to $10.8 billion, while non-residential investment decreased 1.2% to $5.2 billion. As construction companies pushed to catch up on work delayed earlier in the spring, August…

Time-honored wisdom cautions against reinventing the wheel, but two Johns Hopkins civil and systems engineers are doing just that in their effort to investigate whether new steels recently used in critical car parts—including bumpers and the steel cage that protects drivers…

Waterproofing membranes are commonly used to protect structures against hydrostatic pressure. The idea behind them is simple. They keep the water outside the structure (in the case of a basement or tunnel) or inside the structure (in the case of a…

MarShield was approached by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to design and manufacture a custom cabinet so they could store their sources underneath. The cabinet also required a L-block shield and cave on top so they could prepare their unit doses of high-energy sources. The entire cabinet and…

A new partnership between Zibi, Hydro Ottawa and Kruger Products will put the National Capital Region on the map as a leader in combating climate change through the substantial reduction of carbon emissions using district energy for heating and cooling in…