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A new year brings new beginnings, and for Penticton-based Structurlam Mass Timber Corp., that includes building on key developments from last year. With its expertise in cross-laminated timbers, it welcomed changes in the B.C. Building Code last March allowing for mass-timber…

New York City officials are pushing to legalise the use of drones for facade inspections after an architect was reportedly killed by falling debris from a building in the city. Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams announced the proposal on 22 December 2019, just days after…

At CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020, Metso will showcase its latest innovations and field-proven technologies for the aggregates industry, with solutions designed especially for the show. “In the world of construction, dependability matters. At Metso we’ve turned our over 150 years of experience…

Learn how concrete temperature and maturity monitoring can help save you millions of dollars and countless hours of construction time at the Canadian Concrete Expo.   COMMAND Center is exhibiting at the Canadian Concrete Expo in Toronto, Ontario. The show…

The McInnis Cement Board of Directors announces the appointment of Mr. Baudouin Nizet to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective immediately. Mr. Nizet has a long track record in the cement industry, including working at CRH…

After significant improvement, numbers of women entering construction have started to stagnate. What are the reasons for this and what can we do to improve? Getting more women into construction has been a long-term ambition for the construction industry. Even…

While there’s no doubt that many building companies have been affected by the downturn in the Australian residential housing market, most industry experts agree that exciting new opportunities are presenting themselves elsewhere. And contractors that are modernizing their operations to…

ACA has received funding from the Workers Compensation Board to coordinate the development of Physical demands Analysis (PDAs) for trades occupations involved in construction. PDA is a breakdown of every task performed for each position, the time spent on each…

Lake Pleasant Recycling and Demolition (LPRD), located in Michigan’s beautiful Irish Hills, 2.5 hours southwest of Detroit seems an unlikely location for a flourishing scrap operation. This is a rural area most notably home to Michigan International Speedway (MIS) and Hillsdale…

After years of inaction on climate change, the decade ahead has become the bracket in which humanity gets one last opportunity to at least contain the warming crisis. While mitigation efforts targeting transportation, industry and the energy sector remain mired…

MACH proudly announces the appointment of Stephen Champion as Executive Vice President, Real Estate and Development, for Ontario and Western Canada. Stephen has almost twenty years of experience in commercial real estate overseeing investments, development and management operations across all asset classes with a majority…

David Kusturin stands at the top of a scaffold five metres above the ground just south of Commissioners Street in Toronto’s Port Lands and surveys the busy construction scene before him. Crews operate massive cranes, augers and concrete pump trucks…

An inspection of a construction crane that collapsed in Halifax during a storm in September revealed it wasn’t working properly four months earlier. Citing government documents, Global News says the tower crane — owned by Lead Structural Framework Ltd. — was modified…

I believe we’ll all be in for “insurance shock” this decade. The insurance business will never lose money and will pass it on to the building owners. This in turn, may lead many to not carry insurance at all. It…

Long before chicken wings became a Buffalo signature, Ontario turned to the bustling business and shipping hub of the Great Lakes for something more enduring — an architect of note to design a new provincial parliament. Preferably, one that would…