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As people become increasingly interested in the sustainability in all things, building construction was bound to find itself under scrutiny. Steel and concrete are notorious for their large environmental footprints. But they’ve historically been the only suitable answer as the…

Statistics Canada reports that total investment in building construction decreased 0.5% from September to $15.5 billion in October. Investment in the non-residential sector was up (+0.5% to $4.9 billion), while the residential sector decreased (-1.0% to $10.6 billion). On a constant dollar basis (2012=100),…

Modular construction is something like Legos — and hotel developers can’t get enough of the new building trend. Built section-by-section in a factory, hotel units are shipped to a site and stacked, sometimes practically overnight. Hotel developers are pushing the high-speed,…

When it comes to safety on the jobsite, most contractors focus on widely accepted performance indicators like an experience modification rating (EMR) or the count of their OSHA recordable incidents.  While these are important overall numbers, ignoring near miss incidents…

An area where material science is advancing the field of radiation shielding is in the development of non-lead shielding materials. Lead is used today because it’s cost-effective, easy to work with, and most importantly has the ability to reduce gamma radiation.…

Decking the halls is a whole lot harder when you’re decorating something 10 times smaller than a human hair. But that didn’t stop Travis Casagrande from going big this holiday season by constructing something super tiny. The research associate at the Canadian Centre for…

The City of Langford is taking the unusual step of warning residents in a brand-new highrise apartment building that their homes may not be safe. The 90-unit Danbrook One development just opened to renters at 2766 Claude Rd. in the…

Stanley, NC – After last year’s SENNEBOGEN national sales meeting, Oliver Nachevski, VP and Chief Operating Office of Strongco Corporation, told his organization “There’s no reason we can’t be at the top.” At this year’s meeting, he was proven right. Constantino…

Loveland, CO – Bedrock Slinging company bills itself as “the Material Placement Guys” serving Colorado and a growing region around the state. What began as a single conveyor truck that Jordan Kamps purchased in 2003 has now grown into a…

The controversial two-year closing of the Mount Royal tunnel as part of the work on the REM electric train network has been postponed from Jan. 6 to March 30, 2020. The consortium building the REM says the delay will increase…

Artificial Intelligence may be just the thing to accelerate spray-on solar cell technology, which could revolutionize how consumers use energy. A research team at the University of Central Florida used Machine Learning, aka Artificial Intelligence to optimize the materials used…

Logos are all around us, we see them on-screen, on buildings, on clothing, on packaging, on cars, almost everywhere we look a brand is trying to grab our attention. And, the latest architectural imaginings of Karina Wiciak – of wamhouse…

About 30 miles north of Chicago in suburban Deerfield, a construction trailer is parked behind the old headquarters of Textura — a company Oracle bought for $663 million in April 2016. A steel fence circles the site and gravel carpets the…

Lifting operations are inherently hazardous. After all, a suspended load embodies plenty of potential energy and, when dangling from a single hook, it is not easy to control. When lifting a large, cumbersome load, tag-lines are usually used to prevent…

The American Wood Council (AWC) today announced the election of LP Corporation’s Executive Vice President Neil Sherman as the AWC Board of Directors’ Chairman of the Board for a one-year term, effective January 1, 2020. Furman Brodie, Vice President of Charles…