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While restaurants, gyms, schools, and other buildings are closed indefinitely to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the water left sitting in pipes could change in quality. It’s possible that water left sitting for long periods of time could contain excessive amounts…

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home?  The coronavirus pandemic has forced broad swaths of the economy to shut down, as state after state forced nonessential businesses to close. The result…

Aurigo Software and Autodesk, Inc. today announced an alliance to develop the most comprehensive set of cloud-based solutions for public and private owners. Aurigo will integrate with Autodesk Construction Cloud, a powerful portfolio of construction management software and services, soon giving owners a single…

U.S. homebuilder sentiment in April dipped to its lowest level in over seven years. It was the steepest monthly decline in the 30-year history of the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. It is easy to see why confidence…

Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete, in a zero-waste approach to help advance the circular economy. Produced during the separation of molten steel from impurities, steel slag…

A man gets out of his car, puts on his hard hat and walks on an apartment building construction site in Halifax Regional Municipality.  It’s 7 a.m. on Tuesday, and while the drive to work for the construction worker was quiet,…

Vision enhancement specialist PROVIX has recently released a new thermal camera (pictured) to measure body and face temperatures that, it believes, will provide companies with a proactive COVID-19 detection method. Its camera systems are normally mentioned in relation to providing more…

As reported on Yahoo News, almost 231,000 American bridges — more than a third of the nation’s bridges — need repair or should be completely replaced, according to analysis of federal data by an infrastructure investment advocacy group. The American Road…

Skills Ontario’s #SkillsAtHome social media challenge series officially launched on March 28th with a rollercoaster system challenge, and Skills Ontario is thrilled to announce the second challenge in the series: the #SkillsCookieChallenge. Applicants are instructed to decorate a cookie with a…

The Canadian Press reports that the Quebec government will allow some residential construction to resume as an essential service during the COVID-19 shutdown that has brought much of the provincial economy to a halt. Premier Francois Legault said today the government…

Constantino Lannes, President of SENNEBOGEN LLC, recently announced that Jason Jones has joined the firm’s executive teams as Americas’ Sales Manager. Jones now takes senior responsibility for developing and leading the SENNEBOGEN sales network in the USA, Canada, Mexico and South…

Rogers-O’Brien implemented COMMAND Center on a 16-story, 300,000 square foot mixed-use project. By using COMMAND Center to determine when concrete achieved necessary strength and to reduce test cylinders, the team saved one day of construction schedule per floor, for a total…

IAPMO and other plumbing and mechanical industry leaders will co-convene a webinar at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday that explores the various federal resources available to businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar, titled “How the Federal COVID-19 Response Impacts Your…

As Lowe’s Canada, one of Canada’s leading home improvement retailers operating or servicing more than 475 corporate and affiliated stores under different banners, continues to respond to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic, it is announcing a philanthropic investment of $1 million…

An attempted bid for the former Capital Pointe site failed this week when the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decided against overturning a lower court’s judicial approval of the land sale. When the embattled Capital Pointe project ended, the competition over who…