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A clear picture of the global economic impact of the deadly coronavirus has begun to emerge, and U.S. real estate companies are monitoring how the crisis could play out on construction sites and in development pipelines. Coronavirus caused more than 2,000 deaths and infected…

As New York City experiences its biggest surge in construction in years, reports have surfaced of ballooning number of injuries on the city’s thousands of construction sites. Attempts to heighten city supervision of the sites has led to launch of a…

Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, have developed a new procedure for recycling concrete with the addition of discarded wood. They found that the correct proportion of inputs can yield a new building…

Integrated Sustainability is an employee-owned water infrastructure delivery and operations company with extensive expertise in all aspects of water infrastructure design and execution. They execute projects under a collaborative turn-key delivery model from concept to completion, assuming full risk and accountability for…

U.S. homebuilding fell less than expected in January while permits surged to a near 13-year high, pointing to sustained housing market strength that could help keep the longest economic expansion in history on track. Other data on Wednesday showed producer prices…

Dirt won’t be the only thing flying in Campbell Park once a new multi-tenant building welcomes its first occupant.  Dynamyx Gymnastics celebrated with developers and city officials in a ground-breaking ceremony on Feb. 14 on Carleton Drive. Now in construction, the…

The training requirements for flagpersons in Newfoundland and Labrador will double April 1, while a new voluntary course for those who supervise or design traffic control plans at highway construction sites will also be launched. “We still see risks from excessive…

Premier Doug Ford’s government is changing development rules to speed up work on four key transit projects for the Greater Toronto Area, but opposition critics say the new legislation could trample on the environment and homeowners’ rights. Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney…

What do you get if you mix sand, bacteria and sunlight? A self-replicating building material that pulls CO2 straight out of the atmosphere, according to research engineers at one university in the United States. At the heart of this new building…

How to stand out beside the world’s tallest building? That was the challenge facing Dutch architecture firm UNStudio when it received a commission to build a new tower on Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road, directly opposite the 828-meter Burj Khalifa. But the client, state-owned…

Twelve projects across Canada—each with a tremendous impact on the surrounding built environment—have been selected for the 2020 National Urban Design Awards. The winning projects range from public art installations and parks to a revitalized underpass. The awards are part of…

Power engineers aren’t the most visible people in our workforce, but the reality is, the world can’t operate without them. “Without power engineers, life as we know it would be disrupted,” says David Babich, Vancouver Island University (VIU) Power Engineering Chair.…

With the final public consultation meeting scheduled for the Sidewalk Labs smart-city project less than two weeks away, government agency Waterfront Toronto is indicating that it wants to go ahead with the project, and that it’s ready to put hundreds of…

Construction sites have grown considerably quieter in recent years. It isn’t your imagination: thanks to a boom in modular construction, more and more work that has traditionally been done on-site has moved indoors. However, while this trend increases worker productivity, its effect…

The P.E.I. Energy Corporation is appealing a development permit approved by the Rural Municipality of Eastern Kings, saying it interferes with its proposed wind farm expansion. The Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission held a public hearing on the issue Tuesday. The municipality granted the…