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In the town of Hampstead, the battle over the demolition of two aging apartment buildings is pitting the rights of tenants against those of developers and the municipality seeking to upgrade to something larger, newer and more profitable. Residents…

Sault Ste. Marie City Council is expected to award a contract on Monday for additional repairs to the problematic Wellington Street underpass. The job is expected to go to Carlington Construction Inc. from Hamilton, which had the lowest among…

Jakarta, Indonesia (Nov. 18, 2019) – PT. IAPMO Group Indonesia, in cooperation with the Green Product Council Indonesia (GPCI) and the Indonesian Plumbing Association (APIN), hosted a comprehensive three-day Indonesia Sustainable Construction and Plumbing (ISCOP) conference and exposition at Jakarta International…

Cranes are getting taller and lifting more – so industry reps are getting together in Richmond this week to discuss how to keep construction sites safe. The theme of the Tower Crane Conference, hosted by WorkSafeBC and the BC…

TORONTO, Ont., November 19, 2019 — Procore Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of construction management software, today announced that Bockstael Construction, one of Manitoba’s leading contractors, has selected Procore as its enterprise-wide project management platform to streamline processes, better leverage data…

OTTAWA, November 18, 2019 – Tuesday, November 26, 2019 marks the Canadian Construction Association’s (CCA) first annual celebration of the construction industry with National Construction Day 2019. CCA is pleased to be leading the celebration by launching a new video highlighting…

Ontario, Calif. (Nov. 18, 2019) — The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) Codes app is now available for download, giving users constant access to their purchased code books on their mobile devices even when they are offline. The…

The Qulliq Energy Corp. has asked the Nunavut government for permission to build a new $32.4-million diesel-burning power plant in Arctic Bay to replace a 45-year-old structure that’s now too small, too unsafe, and incapable of meeting the community’s…

Local construction giant Tomlinson Group is demanding more than $11 million in late payments from Rideau Transit Group (RTG), the builder of Ottawa’s beleaguered Confederation Line. According to a letter dated Nov. 11 from Tomlinson to RTG — and obtained by CBC — the firm…

Ontario, Calif. (Nov. 15, 2019) — In accordance with the IAPMO Regulations Governing Committee Projects, IAPMO would like to announce that a Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) to the 2018 edition of the Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC®) is being submitted for public…

Ontario (November 15, 2019) – Earlier this week, Ian Howcroft, Chief Executive Officer of Skills Ontario met with Ken McCorkle, Manager of Indigenous Affairs at Enbridge Gas and Malini Giridhar, VP of Business Development and Regulatory at Enbridge Gas,…

November 14, 2019 (Victoria, BC) – The Vancouver Island Construction Association (VICA) and its membership elected four industry leaders to its 2019-2020 Board of Directors at its Annual General Meeting on November 7, 2019. There were nine nominees from…

After almost four years of close, enthusiastic cooperation with the developer of a wholesale mall at the Global Transportation Hub, the government of Saskatchewan has announced a major reversal. It says it will no longer support immigration applications tied…

An essential component of the US economy, the construction industry makes up around 4.1% of US GDP. As the cost of the building rises due to a lack of increase in productivity, labor shortages, and rising material prices, it’s critical to make progress…

Jakarta, Indonesia (Nov. 14, 2019) — The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) convened, as part of its contribution to the inaugural Indonesia Sustainable Construction and Plumbing Conference (ISCOP), a high-level roundtable discussion on water and sanitation in Indonesia…