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The City of Denver voted on December 23, 2019, to adopt the 2019 Denver Building Code, which includes the tall mass timber code provisions approved for the 2021 International Building Code (IBC). As part of the adoption of the new…

A First Nation in British Columbia has served a company that wants to build a natural gas pipeline through its territory an eviction notice. “This notice is to inform you that all Coastal GasLink staff and contractors currently trespassing on…

Having wowed the industry with the first edition under the Messe Frankfurt umbrella – exhibitors are now gearing up to showcase what’s next for Architectural Mobility at IEE Expo which will take place in the financial capital Mumbai from 27…

QuadReal is planning a comprehensive redevelopment of Cloverdale Mall that would transform it into a mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented community with thousands of new residents, a park and loads of retail. The preliminary scheme was presented to the Toronto Design Review Panel who…

Green Building Initiative (GBI) began a revision process early in 2019 to create Green Globes for Existing Buildings (EB) 2019—a significant update to GBI’s Green Globes program for in-use buildings.  The update includes parallel content, as applicable, from the published ANSI/GBI…

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (“Zoomlion”) (1157.HK) is celebrating a new milestone as its tower crane sales crossed the USD 1.43 billion mark in 2019, making it the first global company in the market to reach the new high.…

The past year in architecture has been filled with milestones, from the completion of Africa’s tallest building to the opening of Europe’s first underwater restaurant. We also watched in horror as Notre Dame burned, gained new “supertall” skyscrapers and lost industry giants like I.M. Pei and César Pelli. But at…

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…

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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…