News

Below are links to the top news items posted on the Construction Links Network over the past week. Members are invited to send company news items and press releases before May 11 to be included in the next issue. Thank you…

India’s Supreme Court has instructed the government to seek foreign help to fix what it described as a worrying change in colour at the Taj Mahal. “Even if you have the expertise, you are not utilising it. Or perhaps you don’t…

The U.S. construction market is booming with no signs of slowing down. According to the USG Corp. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index, 93 percent of contractors expect to see equal or greater profit margins in the next year.…

Add concrete to the list of things graphene can improve. Scientists at the University of Exeter‘s Center for Graphene Science developed a new technique to incorporate graphene in concrete production with the help of nanoengineering technology — and the resulting material is not only over twice as strong as concretes…

BRAMPTON, ON, May 4, 2018 /CNW/ – Habitat for Humanity GTA kicked off Women Build with the announcement of their new 13-home project at 59 McLaughlin Road North in Brampton on May 3rd. The organization was joined on-site by the Mayor of Brampton Linda Jeffrey, future Habitat…

A team led by St. Thomas builder Doug Tarry Jr. will spend a week in Puerto Rico helping a community rebuild from last fall’s devastating hurricane. Two dozen experts — including a Western University PhD engineering student and a builder who…

Concrete: we can’t live with it, can’t live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction in recent centuries and with it, in part,…

Summary of changes   As part of the Government of Ontario’s 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan, the IESO was directed to review and propose options to improve the ESPs for First Nations and Métis, with the objective of better aligning programs with…

Shimizu Corporation, one of Japan’s top contractors, has shifted trials into full gear for autonomously controlled construction robots with the latest technology. The trials are run inside the Robot Laboratory at Shimizu’s Institute of Technology in Etchujima Tokyo. The robots, developed…

A high-ranking former Montreal politician as well as a construction industry magnate were among several people acquitted Wednesday in a fraud and conspiracy case involving a municipal land deal. Longtime municipal politician Frank Zampino, entrepreneur Paolo Catania and four former executives of…

TORONTO, May 2, 2018 /CNW/ – Lower sales, higher costs, added stress and even closure are just a few of the devastating consequences road construction wreaks on thousands of small businesses every year. As many as 65,000 businesses over five years have been…

CM Labs Simulations today announced the release of the all-new Luffing Tower Crane (LTC) Training Pack, the first simulation-based LTC training platform on the market. Immediately available for deployment across the full catalog of Vortex® Construction Equipment Simulators, the LTC Training…

ANN ARBOR—In an advance that makes a more flexible, inexpensive type of solar cell commercially viable, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15 percent efficiency. This level of efficiency is in the range of many…

After operating above capacity for almost a decade, the Fredericton International Airport has secured money for a $30-million project expansion. The project announced Tuesday morning will increase the size of the airport building by half, the airport said. More ticket counters, a larger…

The School District 60 Board of Education claims it was unaware that it would be on the hook for nearly $200,000 worth of sanitary sewer construction when it bought land to build the new Margaret ‘Ma’ Murray Community School. The board…