Command Center Blog: Who Uses Concrete Maturity?
Builders, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, testing firms, owners, engineers, and architects all find value in the concrete maturity method. Click to find out how monitoring concrete maturity can improve your construction methods. Builders, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and testing firms who need to quickly evaluate when in-place…
Soaring new Toronto condo building will be the tallest in Canada
It’s official: The long-rumoured, 95-storey-tall residential tower at the base of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto is a go. Get ready to crane those necks. Pinnacle International announced the news with a press release on Wednesday, confirming not only that they’d finally be proceeding with…
How the construction industry works smarter and safer with IoT
The construction industry has seen sustained growth during the past decade. According to a report published by Statista, the combined public and private construction spending in the United States alone reached $1.23 trillion in 2017. Globally speaking, this upward trend is set…
Montreal’s Olympic Tower renovated as office space
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…
Safety barriers being installed at Burgoyne Bridge
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…
Experts concerned by looming condo insurance crisis
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…
Delve into the drama of Postmodern architecture
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…
DataBid Blog – 14 storey condo project proposed for Toronto
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…
Has the wooden skyscraper revolution finally arrived?
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…