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The head of Nalcor Energy says the delay in resuming construction at the Muskrat Falls site could end up costing an extra $400 million. Work at the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric megaproject in Labrador will resume at the end of the month, after…

For two years a prototype has been handled with great care, whether in the hands of the product design company that produced it or the civil engineer whose experience in the construction industry spawned the idea for it. At January’s Futurebuild trade show,…

An engineer involved in four residential projects in Langford is facing discipline for accepting jobs for which he lacked sufficient training or experience. A decision by the association of Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. found that Ahmed Raza Syed breached its…

Economic uncertainty stemming from containment measures of COVID-19 and falling oil prices is affecting all sectors. Canada’s housing market will see declines in 2020, and should start to improve by this time next year. Housing starts, sales and prices are likely to stay…

Quartz Systems, a construction technology company leveraging advanced perception systems to understand everything on a construction site, today announced $7.75 million in pre-seed and seed funding. Baseline Ventures led the round, with Felicis Ventures, Lemnos, and Bloomberg Beta also participating.   Quartz…

Statistics Canada reports that the total value of building permits issued by Canadian municipalities plummeted 17.1% to $6.0 billion in April. The decrease in April was the largest decline since a similar drop in October 2008 during the financial crisis. When combined with the March…

The American Wood Council (AWC) has released an updated “Technical Report 10 (TR10), Calculating the Fire Resistance of Wood Members and Assemblies.” The updated TR10 can be found on the AWC website here. “The emergence of mass timber as a competitive product…

Fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions are becoming major factors in the construction industry and, as a result, companies are starting to change the way they operate. The development of highly advanced, energy-efficient construction equipment along with the increase in connected…

CrowdBlink today announced Protect, a new screening and compliance application. Protect is a mobile and web-based application and offers a new way for construction, manufacturing, supply-chain, retirement or long term care facilities, events, and many other types of organizations to screen…

The Beck Group used COMMAND Center maturity monitoring to quickly determine when their concrete reached its required strength, cutting four months from the project schedule and saving $3 million in costs. Before construction began on 2000 McKinney, the project was on…

The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) added three codes to the IAPMO Codes mobile app — the 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC), 2021 Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC) and 2018 National Standard Plumbing Code (NSPC)-New Jersey are now available…

3 online workshops | 9 presentations | 1 comprehensive learning series! Wood WORKS! BC, with support from BC Housing, is pleased to offer a new online workshop series, Elevating Wood Construction in 2020. Expert presenters will share their knowledge and experience…

Founded as a not-for-profit venture to raise charity funds through scrap recycling, Recycling Lives has emerged as one of England’s leading players in the scrap market. Now operating 19 material collection and processing sites throughout the UK, its flagship is the…

An X-ray is produced by energy released from an accelerating electron and resulting radiation can pass through some, but not all material. The x-ray radiation then interacts with a detector and forms an image of the inside of an object or…

Australian scientists have created a new kind of rubber polymer that could make for more sustainable building materials. This versatile new material can be used on its own like regular rubber, or mixed with filler materials to create brand new composites.…