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After years of inaction on climate change, the decade ahead has become the bracket in which humanity gets one last opportunity to at least contain the warming crisis. While mitigation efforts targeting transportation, industry and the energy sector remain mired…

MACH proudly announces the appointment of Stephen Champion as Executive Vice President, Real Estate and Development, for Ontario and Western Canada. Stephen has almost twenty years of experience in commercial real estate overseeing investments, development and management operations across all asset classes with a majority…

David Kusturin stands at the top of a scaffold five metres above the ground just south of Commissioners Street in Toronto’s Port Lands and surveys the busy construction scene before him. Crews operate massive cranes, augers and concrete pump trucks…

An inspection of a construction crane that collapsed in Halifax during a storm in September revealed it wasn’t working properly four months earlier. Citing government documents, Global News says the tower crane — owned by Lead Structural Framework Ltd. — was modified…

I believe we’ll all be in for “insurance shock” this decade. The insurance business will never lose money and will pass it on to the building owners. This in turn, may lead many to not carry insurance at all. It…

Long before chicken wings became a Buffalo signature, Ontario turned to the bustling business and shipping hub of the Great Lakes for something more enduring — an architect of note to design a new provincial parliament. Preferably, one that would…

The City of Denver voted on December 23, 2019, to adopt the 2019 Denver Building Code, which includes the tall mass timber code provisions approved for the 2021 International Building Code (IBC). As part of the adoption of the new…

A First Nation in British Columbia has served a company that wants to build a natural gas pipeline through its territory an eviction notice. “This notice is to inform you that all Coastal GasLink staff and contractors currently trespassing on…

Having wowed the industry with the first edition under the Messe Frankfurt umbrella – exhibitors are now gearing up to showcase what’s next for Architectural Mobility at IEE Expo which will take place in the financial capital Mumbai from 27…

QuadReal is planning a comprehensive redevelopment of Cloverdale Mall that would transform it into a mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented community with thousands of new residents, a park and loads of retail. The preliminary scheme was presented to the Toronto Design Review Panel who…

Green Building Initiative (GBI) began a revision process early in 2019 to create Green Globes for Existing Buildings (EB) 2019—a significant update to GBI’s Green Globes program for in-use buildings.  The update includes parallel content, as applicable, from the published ANSI/GBI…

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion”) (1157.HK) is celebrating a new milestone as its tower crane sales crossed the USD 1.43 billion mark in 2019, making it the first global company in the market to reach the new high.…

The past year in architecture has been filled with milestones, from the completion of Africa’s tallest building to the opening of Europe’s first underwater restaurant. We also watched in horror as Notre Dame burned, gained new “supertall” skyscrapers and lost industry giants like I.M. Pei and César Pelli. But at…

An aging construction workforce and a shortage of workers has some businesses looking to drones to help fill the gaps in Canada’s labour force, and help them do their work faster and with fewer people. Construction companies across the country…

Whether for a newly constructed or existing building, a major objective of every building management team is to work towards developing checklists which will prevent outbreak of a fire. For those fires which arise unexpectedly, the risks may be significantly reduced…