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By Christopher Hope VerX Direct When a company chooses to look away from danger, it doesn’t become somehow magically invisible to legal responsibility. Everyone agrees, or claims to, but in fact, day in and day out, most companies will take the…

LONDON — Britain’s building safety systems are a lax and confused mess in need of a major overhaul and much tougher enforcement, an investigator commissioned after the Grenfell Tower disaster reported on Thursday, but she did not recommend banning all flammable facades, a…

On May 3, six months into what was initially billed as a year-long public consultation process, Sidewalk Toronto held only its second public meeting on its smart city Quayside development plans. The proposed Quayside community was supposed to be a global…

An architect who designed some of the most iconic buildings in Calgary and southern Alberta has died at 74 from asbestos exposure he incurred during the early years of his career. Ken Hutchinson designed hundreds of buildings in Western Canada, including the…

Plans for a striking, slender skyscraper, resembling the dancing motions of a woman, soaring high above a site just east of the north end of the Granville Street Bridge in downtown Vancouver were revealed to the community today. The developer, Pinnacle…

VICTORIA — Lower Mainland drivers will soon have an easier time seeing road lines on provincial highways, as the B.C. government begins to roll out new highly reflective paint. The Ministry of Transportation has begun painting more than 3,000 kilometres of roads…

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened a $4 billion bridge directly linking Russia to Crimea, giving him a propaganda victory that drew condemnation from the West and served as the latest demonstration of Putin’s personalized system of power. Putin,…

In its bid to fill the hole left by excavation work on the Capital Pointe project, the City of Regina is arguing the site at the corner of Albert Street and Victoria Avenue is a risk to public safety. Christine Clifford,…

Deadlines have been extended for hundreds of insurance claims that remain unresolved more than two years after a wildfire dubbed “The Beast” tore through Fort McMurray and surrounding areas in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. “This is unprecedented, not just…

QUÉBEC CITY, May 16, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED)   Businesses need to be able to rely on adequate resources to create and commercialize innovative products. In 2017, the Government of Canada adopted an ambitious plan to support innovative Canadian enterprises.…

MISSISSAUGA, ON, May, 16, 2018 /CNW/ – Today, EllisDon launched ‘The Journey to Net-Zero’, a lessons-learned report for Mohawk College’s Joyce Centre for Partnership and Innovation as the project nears completion. The industry report is a strategic collaboration document that details lessons learned…

The cost of housing has been going through the roof in many parts of Canada. Most government policies have focused on curtailing the demand for housing, but they have not taken meaningful steps to increase housing supply. In any competitive market without barriers…

Dallas construction company Rogers-O’Brien started using iPads on sites for the last five years, reports Business Insider, in a project overseen by director of applied technology Todd Wynne. Out of the 340 employees working for the firm, 190 possess an iPad for work purposes.  “Everyone…

When her husband became seriously ill at a remote Manitoba Hydro job site, Valerie Nabess Head assumed he’d be flown to the nearest hospital. But Joseph Head never made it. Her partner of 32 years died during the bumpy ambulance ride…

OTTAWA, ON, May 16, 2018 – The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the National Trust for Canada announce the Toronto Central YMCA as the recipient of the 2018 Prix du XXe siècle, in recognition of enduring excellence and significance to…