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Running heavy machinery in a quarry environment is a dirty business, involving massive diesel trucks belching out exhaust fumes. But it doesn’t have to be. Volvo Construction Equipment has teamed up with Skanska to viability test its Electric Site concept.…

Wood foam and metal sponge – can they be combined? That was the question that experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut WKI delved into in a project entitled “HoMe Foam” – with HoMe being a German acronym…

A Vancouver condo owner enmeshed in a years-long battle against her strata has filed a human rights complaint saying there is toxic mould in her unit, which she says has exacerbated her health problems.  Anne Kates owns an apartment in Vancouver’s West End. Like many residential…

GREENSBORO, N.C., Sept. 5, 2018 /CNW/ — Mack Trucks today released the sixth episode of its RoadLife series, “Long Way From Home,” on roadlife.tv and Amazon Prime Video. The episode focuses on two Canadian long-haul truckers as they share the personal sacrifices they make to…

The number of speeding tickets issued in Calgary construction zones has increased by at least 1,300 per cent since last year, according to Calgary police statistics released to Global News on Tuesday. A total of 76,390 speeding violation tickets in…

The European Commission has announced it will end punitive tariffs on solar panels imported from China, five years after they were put into place. The EU accused China in 2013 of ‘dumping’ their solar panels into the European market, selling…

OTTAWA, September 5, 2018 – In a departure from tradition, the architects behind some of Canada’s best new buildings and spaces are coming to Winnipeg for an awards ceremony at Government House and to share their award-winning projects at…

MONTRÉAL, Sept. 5, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – Over 39% of SMEs are struggling to find new employees and the problem will not improve for at least a decade, according to a new study released today from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). “Labour shortages are affecting…

Renee Wolfe was one of the 12 students who studied in this year’s Heavy Equipment Operator (HEO) program based in the Standing Buffalo community which took place this past spring. Wolfe from the Muskowekwan First Nation was employed at the Regina bypass…

A fight over the federal government’s bill to overhaul the National Energy Board has been playing out away from the public eye but is expected to take centre stage in the Senate in September. Behind the scenes, lower levels of…

Solar installers could offer rooftop customers even more savings by bundling solar panels with heat pumps and other electric appliances, according to a recent study by the Rocky Mountain Institute. RMI studied the carbon benefits and financial costs  of electrification of home heating in…

The consortium of infrastructure companies that will construct the Gordie Howe International Bridge are assuming a fixed cost of more than $2.68 billion to build what will become North America’s largest cable-stayed bridge over the Detroit River. The Canadian government…

The number of new homes being built in Richmond is on the rise, while the number of existing ones being sold is declining. Construction started on 1,413 new houses, townhouses and apartment units in the first six months of 2018,…

You’ve heard of offshore drilling platforms and offshore wind farms. Now a Dutch company is developing what’s being called the world’s first offshore dairy farm. Plans call for the high-tech, multilevel facility to open this fall in Rotterdam, a port city about 50 miles…

Workers and companies who were set to be employed on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion have been left wondering where they stand as construction on the project begins to shut down. Ryan Bruce, director of government and public relations for…