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COVID-19 restrictions have been difficult for everyone, but other than health, there is something positive coming out of recent events. Sanitation at construction sites, long a concern for workers, has vastly improved, notes Jim Noon, President of the Vancouver Island Building Trades Council.…

Geospatial industry continues to evolve through a process of collaboration for almost every industry sectors all over the world, and as expected, the AEC industry is no exception to this. Though BIM continues to be a significant technology driver across all…

Compared to the normally sluggish pace of most construction projects, the development of two new City of Toronto affordable housing complexes will have a kind of don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it quality. The projects – one in the west end and the other in Scarborough,…

A B.C. developer who built townhouse condos, mostly in Surrey, with roof overhangs as a solution to the leaky-condo problem, is facing at least three lawsuits from stratas, alleging the overhangs weren’t property designed or built. The strata owners of a…

The City of London has dismissed general contractor Jasper Construction from the $21-million East Lions Community Centre, with the local councillor saying the move will allow the project to move forward after delays that have put the project a year behind…

The province continues to move forward with the largest health-care infrastructure project in Nova Scotia’s history. A tender to design and build a parkade across from the Halifax Infirmary on Summer Street was awarded to Lindsay Construction Limited, today, July 2,…

Indigenous leaders in British Columbia are reacting to Thursday’s disappointment in the Supreme Court of Canada by pledging to pursue new legal challenges against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which is quietly under construction in the Lower Mainland. Pipeline opponents were dismayed to…

Martin Kendell understands construction is going to happen in his neighbourhood. After all, he lives across the street from the Gilmore SkyTrain station and transit hubs attract new development. But he’s fed up with the construction noise that he says is…

Minister Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development of Ontario, announced that the Government of Ontario is investing an additional $3.5 million in Skills Ontario for the 2020-2021 school year to help the organization help continue to promote the…

You need to be well grounded any time you start swinging tons of material at the end of a long boom. That need is even more true when you’re working on a floating platform! No one understands that better than the…

GeoShack Canada Company will remain an independently owned Topcon Master Dealer for all of Ontario. This is a change in direction from the previously announced Brandt Companies acquisition of GeoShack’s Canadian operations. Despite several weeks of hard work by both the Brandt and GeoShack…

The ACI Foundation announces that applications are now being accepted from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2021-2022 academic year. Three new fellowships and one new undergraduate scholarship have been added to the program. Additionally, the ACI Middle East Fellowship has…

Anyone who’s been on a construction site knows that traditional construction methods are inefficient, time-consuming and costly. At each step, productivity is lost as crews wait for each other before they can move on to the next level. Delays caused by…

The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Todd Denison, Vice President & General Manager of UL’s Appliances, HVAC & Lighting Division, to the CABA Board of Directors. UL is a global independent safety science company…

Caber Trace, a Covid-19 Risk Management company, announced today that its subscription-based contact tracing solution will be ready to deploy by late summer.  Caber Trace features hardhat mounted Bluetooth beacons that provide visual and physical distancing cues to each worker that…