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Swiss engineers have developed a construction technique that could change how buildings are designed and built. It’s called a “Smart Slab:” A mixture of concrete, rebar, and carbon fiber that form a super-light, super-strong slab ceiling. It’s an entirely new…

An urban utopia on Mars might be closer than you think. For the past year, creative professionals, students, space geeks — even families — have been creating their visions for a metropolis on the fourth planet from the sun. The…

If approved, Kinsman Park in Okotoks would be the site for the first tiny home village in Canada. The 32 new tiny homes provide all the amenities of a regular house but with a footprint of less than 600 square…

Momentum is building for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, with Kinder Morgan Canada releasing an updated list of the final construction contractors. The company had previously released a list of six companies to lead the work on the $7.4 billion…

Starting this September, the Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association (SCSA) is providing Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s School of Construction students with Safety Construction Orientation Training (SCOT®) at no cost. SCOT is recognized throughout the Saskatchewan construction industry as a base safety orientation in…

With funding now in place, construction on the new Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment building in Little Current will begin April 5, 2019. Brent Ross, communications branch with the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, told the Recorder last…

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If you’ve ever struggled with a DIY project, chances are you blamed your frustrations on the tools you were using. A standard hammer and nail might seem simple, but the dangers of hammering your thumb might just scare you away…

(Ottawa, ON) – August 24, 2018 – The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – Canada (ACEC) has formally joined the Canadian Chamber of Commerce led Coalition to Keep Trade Free. The decision to join was sparked by uncertainty around future…

London, UK (23 August 2018) – Today, 19 pioneering mayors, representing 130 million urban citizens, committed to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from their cities by ensuring that new buildings operate at net zero carbon by 2030. By signing the Net Zero…

The soaring dome atop the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flower justly dominates the Florence skyline and has stood for centuries, ever since Filippo Brunelleschi designed it in the early 15th century. But scholars aren’t quite sure how this…

A team led by one of North America’s largest transportation contractors has won the contract to design and build the new bridge across the Cataraqui River. A consortium led by Peter Kiewit Son’s Company, based in Omaha, Neb., was selected…

The property manager for Yellowknife’s Bellanca building says it was wind gusts that caused a large portion of siding to fall off the downtown building Wednesday morning. The 10-storey Bellanca building — formerly home to federal government offices before devolution, but currently sitting empty — had about…

A large national construction company has been ordered to pay $50,000 for its role in a September 2013 workplace accident that left a worker disabled. Judge Gregory Lenehan on Wednesday sentenced Aecon Group Inc. to pay a fine of $50,000,…

Ontario, Calif. (Aug. 23, 2018) — The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO), developer of the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®) and Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC®), has posted online the 2018 Report on Proposals for the 2021 editions of…