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Demolition experts were left red-faced when a silo they tried to bring down fell the wrong way and crushed a cultural center. Onlookers who had gathered to see the explosion in the town of Vordingborg initially cheered when the detonation began on…

From New York to Shanghai, coastal cities around the world are at risk from rising sea levels and unpredictable storm surges. But rather than simply building higher seawalls to hold back floodwaters, many builders and urban planners are turning to floating and amphibious…

MONTREAL, April 9, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal had the great pleasure of unveiling today the winning project of the architectural competition launched in June 2017 and presenting the design and preliminary drawings of the new Museum. It was…

 In a move reminiscent to what TransCanada did a month before it put the kybosh on the Energy East Pipeline Project, Kinder Morgan put out a press release Sunday, April 8, in which the company said it would curtail spending on…

OTTAWA, April 9, 2018 /CNW/ – The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chantal Guay as Chief Executive Officer of the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).   Previous to this appointment, Ms. Guay served as Vice-President, Standards and International…

James Balderson was thrilled when he purchased his Vancouver townhouse in 1991 — until the rain started to fall and drip through the lights in the ceiling.  “I bought a brand-new, four-bedroom, leaky, rotten condo townhouse,” Balderson said. “It was full of holes. It…

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 April 13 to be included in the next issue. Thank you…

OTTAWA, April 6, 2018 – The Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) is launching a series of cross-country seminars in April – May 2018 that will introduce new and updated documents, with a particular focus on project delivery methods, including the new…

Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to write a big purchase order for a…

The engineering and construction (E&C) sector is worth more than $10 trillion a year. And while its customers are increasingly sophisticated, it remains severely underdigitized. To lay out the landscape of technology, we conducted a comprehensive study of current and potential use cases in…

MORRISBURG, ON, April 4, 2018 /CNW/ – Giving every Canadian a real and fair chance at success means helping them get the skills and training they need to succeed in a changing economy. The skilled trades are good, well-paying, middle class jobs, and the…

Years of work to build a bilingual arts space in the heart of Sudbury is going to become a reality as shovels are set to go into the ground. Place des Arts is scheduled to start construction sometime this summer, after securing…

Residents of the Halifax Regional Municipality are more accepting of changes to their city than most people realize. A recent survey of Halifax residents on their perception of transformation within their community showed that the majority of survey participants pointed to…

Touted as an engineering wonder, the world’s longest sea bridge, which connects Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, includes a snaking road crossing and an underwater tunnel and reportedly uses enough steel to build 60 Eiffel Towers. Nine years after construction…

The ground has been broken on a new water reservoir in Prince Albert, a $12 million project to increase the city’s water capacity levels. Construction on the new reservoir was announced Tuesday. A second, 15-million-litre water reservoir will be built next…