As blogged on Business in Vancouver, the developer of a condo project in Port Moody says he’s overwhelmed by the response to a program that will allow 30 prospective owners to roll the rent they’ll pay on their new units for…
As blogged on Business in Vancouver, the developer of a condo project in Port Moody says he’s overwhelmed by the response to a program that will allow 30 prospective owners to roll the rent they’ll pay on their new units for…
As blogged on Interesting Engineering, what do you think of when you think of Artificial Intelligence? Smart devices? The IOT? Self Driving vehicles? Skynet? Everyone and their grandmother is talking about AI and for good reason too. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic…
As reported in the Regina Leader-Post, construction earnings and employment fell more sharply in Saskatchewan than in any other province during 2018, the first full year the PST was charged on the full value of construction contracts. The mood in the…
As reported in Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News, as the B.C. government embarks on billions of dollars worth of public infrastructure construction, four contractor groups have filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court to challenge the NDP government’s restricting the work to 19…
As reported on Global News, dramatic video of a towering construction crane bursting with electrical sparks lit up the sky in Halifax on Tuesday and was the talk of the town come Wednesday morning. A crane was left spiralling in the…
As reported in the Regina Leader-Post, Ron Olson has spent more than four decades building homes in and around Saskatoon, long enough to have seen a few booms and busts in the city’s construction industry. His company, Saskatoon-based Boychuk Construction Corp., is…
As blogged on IoT Agenda, equipment rental companies can increase profits and enhance customer service just by gaining critical real-time insights into their asset performance. We’ve seen equipment rental companies flip the switch on IoT data and quickly improve asset uptime,…
As blogged on Digital Trends, you likely use them every day, but have you ever stopped to consider how incredible bridges are? They’re massive spans of concrete, metal, and wires that weigh thousands of tons, yet remain standing even through destructive…
As blogged on The Guardian, unlike the Pantheon … virtually all the concrete structures one sees today will eventually need to be replaced,” writes Robert Courland is his weighty tome Concrete Planet, “costing us trillions of dollars in the process.” While there…
As reported in The London Free Press, experts say the deaths of the seven Barho children in a ferocious Halifax house fire last week could lead to new fire safety measures and changes to the country’s building code. “I think we’re…
As reported in the Ottawa Citizen, it seemed like loads of time. In mid-January, the National Capital Commission granted the feuding RendezVous LeBreton partners an extension until Feb. 28 to reach a deal on the 20-year, $4-billion project to redevelop LeBreton…
February 27, 2019 (Anaheim, California, USA) – The organizers of AEC Next Technology Expo + Conference and SPAR 3D Expo & Conference, the premier co-located events focusing on technology for the built world and commercial 3D technology respectively, announced…
TORONTO, Feb. 26, 2019 /CNW/ – BRIKS Design-Build Group was the only Toronto-based firm, named as a Finalist in its Renovation Awards Category for the 2019 CHBA (Canadian Home Builders Association) National Awards for Housing Excellence. BRIKS Design-Build Group is also an active and…
As reported on Insurance Business Canada, experts and industry leaders are asking heavy equipment owners and operators to be more careful with their machinery – or risk theft. There have been five recorded cases of heavy machinery theft so far this…
As reported on CBC News, Canada has been ordered to pay $7 million in damages, plus interest, to a U.S. concrete company that used the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to successfully argue it was wrongly denied permission to build a…