Canadian housing starts trend stable in March
OTTAWA, April 10, 2018 — The trend in housing starts was 226,842 units in March 2018, compared to 225,804 units in February 2018, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted…
Oops! Silo demolition goes wrong in Denmark
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…
New CEO appointed for the Standards Council of Canada
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…
CCDC seminars to focus on project delivery, IPD and procurement
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…
Building smart cities the smarter way
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…
Artificial intelligence and the construction sector
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…