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Anyone who says that a building has to be demolished because the plan doesn’t suit modern uses is either lying or incompetent. Just look at this. One of the greatest white elephants in the world of architecture is the Olympic Stadium…

The barriers are finally being installed on Burgoyne Bridge. Wendi Duggan said she couldn’t be happier to see progress made, after being part of a community group that spent most of a year lobbying for the addition of safety barriers following…

Condo buildings in British Columbia are on the verge of an insurance crisis as premiums soar to unprecedented heights. The market has become so tight that many homeowners and stratas have been refused insurance all together. “The government’s really going to…

In Spain, private sector credit as a share of GDP almost doubled between 2000 and 2007. This increase was accompanied by a boom in housing prices – which doubled in real terms over the same period. The economy as a whole…

When Postmodern Architecture first rose to prominence at the end of the 1970s and 80s, the sputtering indignation of the modernist establishment was heard loud and clear. PoMo was declared flippant and frivolous, it broke all the architectural ‘rules’ in its…

Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world’s tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys. Sidewalk Labs plans to build mass-timber high-rises as part of its redevelopment of the Toronto…

Although it’s still early days, the construction industry has begun to automate and digitize. It’s also starting to use sensing technologies, big data and deep learning, among other things, and the results could revitalize our cities’ infrastructure — roads, water, power…

Trolleybus Urban Development is planning to build a 14 storey residential development that will contain a total gross floor area of 15,679.3 M2. There will be no retail or commercial involved. The Quadrangle designed building will consist of two volumes – a…

Surrounded by farmland and with a population of under 10,000 people, the Norwegian town of Brumunddal might seem like an unlikely setting for a record-breaking high-rise. But soaring above the neighboring Mjøsa lake, more than 100 kilometers north of Oslo, the…

You’ll now recognize Enercare Connections’ Sub-metering operations team at a glance when they arrive at your building site or next meeting place.   About Enercare Connections Inc. Enercare Connections is the largest non-utility sub-meter provider, with electricity, water, thermal and gas…

The Local Project Challenge, a collaboration between academic and social organizations, has honored the International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation’s upcoming Community Plumbing Challenge Indonesia program as a Merit Finalist at the U.N.-Habitat World Urban Forum 10 in Abu Dhabi. The…

HGTV Canada pays it forward with an all-star cast in the powerful, heartwarming new Corus Studios original series, Family Home Overhaul (8×60), premiering Sunday, April 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Viewers will get a first look at the series with a special sneak peek on April 19 during the…

You may have seen the alphabet-soup abbreviation “V2X” thrown around. It’s the catch-all coinage for “vehicle-to-everything” technology, which essentially lets cars “talk” to other vehicles, fixed objects and infrastructure. Freaky sounding, and super futuristic, right? Audi is putting the technology on the…

A Rockwood construction company has been fined $125,000 after a worker died at Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto in March 2018. A court bulletin from the province notes Vixman Construction Limited was also sentenced to 18 months probation for contravening the…

Less than half of B.C.’s construction contractors are expecting more work in 2020, according to a survey released by the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association Wednesday. The survey found that 40 per cent of the companies in the survey are expecting…