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Australia’s first commercial installation of printed solar cells, made using specialised semiconducting inks and printed using a conventional reel-to-reel printer, has been installed on a factory roof in Newcastle. The 200 square metre array was installed in just one day…

TORONTO, Aug. 28, 2018 /CNW/ -Dräger Safety Canada today announced that the Dräger DrugTest 5000 screening system has been approved by the Attorney General of Canada as the first roadside oral fluid drug screening device for use by Canadian law enforcement. Never miss important industry news…

TORONTO, Aug. 29, 2018 /CNW/ – Distinct Infrastructure Group Inc. (“Distinct”, “DIG” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has been recognized by the Utility Contractors Association of Ontario (UCA) with the Association’s 2018 Safety Performance Award. Each year the UCA recognizes contractors…

Officials at Cambridge Memorial Hospital are not surprised to hear the contractor has revised the handover date for the hospital’s new wing for an eighth time. In June, hospital officials were told by the builders the new patient-care wing would…

Shovels are already in the ground, but some members of Belleville city council still have concerns regarding the price tag of Belleville’s new police headquarters. Monday night council received a staff report providing a detailed breakdown of costs for the…

Spectacular design details of phase one of the new Oakridge Centre, Vancouver’s massive mixed residential and commercial masterplan, have been revealed in updated renderings, released this month. Like a futuristic Antoni Gaudi building, the architectural concept is one of “skin and bones,”…

The recent announcement by the provincial government, proclaiming that there will be a $366 million transfer of funds from Ottawa to the Island over the next 10 years, is a big surprise to many; it is also unprecedented. The money…

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A large undeveloped site immediately south of VCC-Clark Station and west of the Monument for East Vancouver, better known as the ‘East Van Cross’, is set to be transformed into a mass-timber office building for an unnamed health sciences company.…

The building that formerly housed Lincoln Fabrics in Port Dalhousie will be reborn as a mixed use apartment building after St. Catharines city council approved zoning for the development Monday.  The project on Lakeport Road at the entrance of Port…

OAKVILLE, ON, Aug. 28, 2018 /CNW/ – The consortium of Siemens and Mortenson has successfully completed the ± 500-kilovolt (kV) Bipole III high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) power converter stations for Manitoba Hydro. The HVDC converter stations are an integral part of the Manitoba…

City living is growing at an astonishing rate. In 1985, two billion people lived in cities; today the number is four billion, and by 2050 there will be some six billion urban dwellers. Cities will have to adapt. Either they can expand horizontally…

The Independent Contractors and Business Association is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to strike down the provincial government’s new hiring model for taxpayer-funded construction projects. The association filed a petition Monday with the court alongside several other building and trade…

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The tallest building in Europe is nearly complete. Rising above a new waterfront complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Lakhta Center’s tower stands at 462 meters (1,516 feet) tall, making it the city’s first “supertall” building (one measuring 300 meters…