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After last spring’s devastating floods across Quebec, one McGill University professor has pitched a new solution to the City of Montreal — one that he says is a faster and cheaper way to protect people’s homes. Thousands of Quebecers surrounded their…

The most expensive condo for sale at San Francisco’s leaning, sinking skyscraper, has sold — and the new owners should get a blue ribbon for their negotiation tactics. Apartment 401 was the priciest listing at Millennium Tower when it hit the…

MISSISSAUGA, ON, April 2, 2018 /CNW/ – On March 25th, 2018, EllisDon wrapped up Prostate Cancer Canada’s 2018 Step-Up Challenge with the final stop taking place in Toronto. During the challenge volunteers representing EllisDon from area offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto raced up some of Canada’s tallest skyscrapers in support…

It’s a bridge for the next 100 years, a modern design that might one day carry self-driving, fuel-free cars. “This bridge will last for generations,” Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said Saturday as she officially opened the new Johnson Street Bridge, a project a…

It could take up to a year to approve the final version of Halifax’s ambitious Centre Plan and that timeline is expected to delay anticipated construction at Dartmouth’s Shannon Park.   The Centre Plan is a new set of rules that will guide development of the city’s…

Tricar Group wants to build a 22-storey, 230-unit highrise in a residential neigbourhood in Masonville, and neighbours are gearing up to oppose it, saying it’s too big for the area dominated by single-family homes. “I don’t know if we can stop…

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Unlike the early 20th century, the infant stages of the 21st century have focused mainly on technology and its impact (good or bad) on business, transportation, and life in general. Meanwhile, spectacular feats of architecture are often overlooked, despite the fact…

3D-printed architecture seems to have taken another step towards the mainstream, with the news that engineering firm Arup and CLS Architetti are collaborating on the first 3D-printed concrete house in the European Union. Named 3D Housing 05, the project was conceived…

It’s hard not to notice the giant 112,000-square-foot structure being erected in the Major Bennett Industrial Park in Peterborough. The huge building will soon be home to Kawartha Metals and Steelworks Design and become a home for industrial businesses in one…

Members of Vancouver’s development community say they’ve seen the light these past couple of weeks as they realize just how British Columbia’s new tax measures could impact them. One of Vancouver’s biggest developers says he could be looking at an additional…

India is building a new city to give global investors an easy way into its booming economy. Gradually mushrooming on an otherwise barren 886-acre parcel of land in Gujarat — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state — is a small collection…

MONTREAL, March 29, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – CG/LA, the global leader in infrastructure research and consulting based in Washington, D.C., in partnership with preeminent construction management platform, Aconex, today announced the winners of the 2018 Infrastructure Project of the Year Awards at the 11th Global Infrastructure Leadership…

WorkSafeBC is investigating after an employee at a concrete manufacturer — who is also a Liberal MLA — was injured in a “serious” incident at his workplace in Fort St. John, B.C. Peace River North MLA Dan Davies was struck by a loader at Inland Concrete…

VANCOUVER, March 29, 2018 /CNW/ – Anthem has acquired the first instalment of a 2.25 acre residential site (445 Bishop Drive SW) in southwest Calgary at the master planned community of Currie.  Anthem will develop the site into townhomes and mid-rise apartments aimed at students,…