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An aging construction workforce and a shortage of workers has some businesses looking to drones to help fill the gaps in Canada’s labour force, and help them do their work faster and with fewer people. Construction companies across the country…

Whether for a newly constructed or existing building, a major objective of every building management team is to work towards developing checklists which will prevent outbreak of a fire. For those fires which arise unexpectedly, the risks may be significantly reduced…

Contractors working on the Tlicho all-season road are going ahead with work without proper approvals from the Wek’e’zhii Land and Water Board, but so far no action has been taken against the lead agency on the project, the Northwest Territories Department…

A replica of London’s iconic Tower Bridge in China has provoked scorn after local authorities splashed £1.5 million in renovations to make it “more coherent” with its Chinese surroundings. The bridge – twice the size of the original with four…

By 2030, AI is predicted to add +$15 trillion to the global GDP thanks largely to solving data issues according to PwC. Lending money used to be a tricky business but time consumers and technology is changing. Banks and other industries…

Wishing all my website visitors, social media followers, email subscribers and advertising partners a happy new year and prosperous 2020! We’ll be back on January 2 with more news updates. Enjoy! Arnie Gess, President

Everyone has a camera in their pocket these days and when something goes down on the jobsite, you can bet it’s going to be captured on video one way or another. That can either be a great thing for marketing…

One resident’s ears hurt from trying to ram earplugs in deeper. Another has cancelled meetings because fatigue left him unable to function properly. Others talk about becoming emotionally jagged from lack of sleep. These are among the thousands kept awake…

It was a knock at the door that ignited the battle. As Yanick Marion hustled early one morning to get to work, the manager of his apartment building had a message: “You have to leave. You don’t have a choice,” he…

Langford residents are still being kept in the dark over why there have been concerns about the structural stability of their apartment building, which forced them out of their homes a week ago. The City of Langford is helping residents…

You might find a representative from the town’s building department knocking on your door as Wasaga Beach deals with a huge backlog of open building permits –– some that date back decades. In his report to council’s co-ordinated committee, Danny…

High in the sky, far above undulating hills flooded with bright yellow gorse bushes, a small black dot zips back and forth. It flies first one way, then back the other in a matrix formation, taking dozens of pictures of…

The process of moving the Marconi campus of the Nova Scotia Community College downtown is continuing, with the province issuing tenders including for the demolition of the former Mercer’s Service Station site. The building abatement and demolition tender for the…

P.E.I. is on track to join Canada’s other provinces in adopting the National Building Code in the new year, which has Island contractors and government busy preparing for the transition. In 2020, P.E.I. will officially be rolling out the 2015 National Building…

The construction industry is in desperate need of an automated shake-up. With a serious skills shortage, limited resources, and outdated data collection practices, automation and robotics could save the industry from stagnation. But digitization is coming for construction. Already robots…