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OTTAWA, October 7, 2019 — On World Architecture Day, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is calling on architects to lead in the fight against climate change and bring discussion of the built environment to the federal election. In response…

Changing needs of construction industry has increased the use of BIM. BIM offers a range of appealing benefits like improved collaboration and coordination between different stakeholders of the same project, streamlined processes, and reduced rework due to lesser errors. Despite delivering…

As reported on New Atlas, shortly after the inauguration of one of the world’s largest airports in Beijing, the city is now host to another massive new building, this time a skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF). Now officially open for…

As reported on CBC News, Jerry Roitelman describes his latest brush with the City of Winnipeg inspections branch in some very direct language. “It’s beyond frustrating. It’s asinine. It’s ridiculous. It is a system that is built to cause failure [so] that…

TORONTO, Oct. 3, 2019 /CNW/ – CMiC—the most complete ERP and Field operations software provider for construction—unveiled its corporate social responsibility program today to further cement its commitment to responsible and sustainable business practices. This initiative, named ‘Ready, Set, Build!,’ will…

As reported on wawa-news.com, project partners and supporters of the NextBridge East-West Tie Line Transmission Project today celebrated the beginning of the long-awaited construction project. NextBridge has been working closely with Indigenous communities, municipalities, landowners, community members and businesses…

Spiking utility prices across Canada are motivating many owners and developers of multi-tenant buildings and condominiums to adopt utility sub-metering, specialized usage-metering technology that enable allocating or recovering utility costs by measuring and billing the utility consumption of individual…

As reported in The Globe and Mail, when developer Hani Lammam looked recently at buying three houses together in East Vancouver for redevelopment into an apartment building, the first question he had was whether the people living in them…

MONTREAL, Oct. 2, 2019 – National Bank of Canada (“National Bank”) today announced its inaugural USD 750 million 3-year Sustainable Bond offering. The net proceeds will be used to finance and/or refinance, in whole or in part, future or existing eligible businesses and…

As blogged on Departures.com, buildings are works of art in their own right, which at this point is a long-standing tenet, proved by museums, old houses of parliament, or even a particularly exciting town hall. The Getty Museum or…

At Plymovent Industrial Products our core values are to provide customers with high quality equipment to remove welding fume and grinding duct, and provide oil mist solutions. For more than forty years we have specialized in the design, manufacture and sale…

As reported on CBC News, when Julia Halipchuk walks onto a construction site, it’s clear she’s one of the people in charge. With a hardhat atop her head and an IPad showing construction designs in-hand, she surveys the day’s…

As blogged on New Atlas, even its critics – and there are sure to be many – couldn’t exactly accuse the Top Tower of being another boring glass rectangle. Planned to rise to a height of 135 m (443…

Paul Rochus, September 2019 Previous posts that I have written have mostly dealt with shielding gamma and neutron radiation, however there are other forms of radiation that should be shielded in certain situation.  Radio Frequency (RF) waves are a…

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