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As reported in the Winnipeg Free Press, Amelia Jasper-Laurin dreams of living in a community of tiny house owners, where like-minded neighbours all pitch in to share chores and property maintenance. Karina Jacobsen, an artist, would like to live in…

As blogged on pbctoday, a ‘digital twin’, put simply, is a vertical representation of a physical thing. As a concept, it sounds little better than a typical CAD model for a building in the design phase, but the twin is…

A new six storey children’s treatment centre will be constructed in Ottawa. The government of Ontario has pledged $105 million over the next six years to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and is commited to creating better outcomes and…

June 2019, Paul Rochus In the last article I wrote on radiation shielding materials, I explored the factors considered by a shielding materials expert when designing radiation shielding. Lead, tungsten and concrete are all very effective forms of shielding that have their advantages and…

As reported in the Vernon Morning Star, a buffer zone has been set up around an archaeological site on West Victoria Street after construction crews discovered what the city is calling a “significant find” on Wednesday morning. City of…

As reported on Yahoo News, young construction workers were floored earlier this week after arriving at their St. John’s job site to discover many of their tools had vanished overnight. It was a loss compounded by the nature of the project itself; Impact…

Toronto – (June 27, 2019) – Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) has released the final report from an independent review of its regulatory performance. The review, which was led by Harry Cayton, an international advisor to the United Kingdom–based Professional…

OTTAWA, June 27, 2019. Canadian Construction Innovations (CCI), in partnership with the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) and with support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), is pleased to announce the launch of the 2019 CONtact innovator…

As reported in the Regina Leader-Post, a pair of Montana travellers heading along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Maple Creek say they were obeying the speed limit in a construction zone Sunday afternoon when a semi trailer slammed into the…

As reported on CBC News, a small town in southern Alberta plans to power itself using only solar panels — believed to be a first in Canada. The Town of Raymond is in the process of installing about 2,700 solar…

As reported on CTV News, a home built using more than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles is on the market in Nova Scotia. Business partners Joel German and David Saulnier, of JD Composites, unveiled their project in Meteghan River earlier this…

As reported in The Star, a legal challenge over which unions can work on certain municipal construction projects has been filed against the City of Toronto, following a controversial council vote on the matter last week. The Christian Labour…

As blogged on DailyHive.com, Big changes are coming to Toronto’s iconic skyline. Oxford Properties has revealed the initial designs for its development of Union Park, a historic, $3.5 billion mixed-use project that includes sprawling office space, nearly 1,000 residential rental units, and the…

As reported on scmagazine.com, a new study on a worker’s susceptibility to being successfully phished found those working in the construction industry the most likely to fall for an attack, however, with the proper training this weakness can be almost…

As reported in the Montreal Gazette, a municipal works yard squeezed in-between the Bonaventure Expressway and the Lachine Canal will be transformed into an example of what an ecological city of the future would be like. On Tuesday, Mayor Valérie…