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OTTAWA, February 21, 2018 – The founders of Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, a Montreal firm that for 30 years has consistently produced refined, elegant and modern buildings – many for the public – are the recipients of the 2018 RAIC Gold Medal.…

PCL Constructors Canada Inc. (Toronto) is pleased to announce the appointment of Terry Olynyk to the position ​of director, Business Development, in Toronto. He will report to PCL Toronto senior vice president and district manager Todd Craigen. In this new role,…

Mississauga, Ont. – February 20, 2018 – Schneider Electric Canada, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced a new partnership with Ryerson University, donating $1 million in kind to design and build the new Smart Building…

St-Georges, Febrary 2018  ̶  Once again, Garaga is expanding its choice of colors, adding Chocolate Walnut this time, for its Townships Collection and Standard+ Series doors, all of them R-16 polyurethane-injected doors. Garaga proposes this color for those want to replicate…

One day after structural concerns were raised about a city arena, the roof came crashing down Tuesday afternoon. Nobody was injured by the roof collapse at Fairview Arena, according to EMS, which responded to the scene along with the Calgary Fire…

Richmond, BC / February 20, 2018 – Work-related motor vehicle incidents (MVIs) account for 33 per cent of all work-related traumatic deaths in British Columbia, making it the leading cause of traumatic workplace deaths in the province.[1] On average each year,…

The EIFS Council of Canada (ECC) officially announced the individuals selected for the ECC Architectural Design Awards Judging Panel today. The Awards Panel will convene in April 2018 to evaluate and select the recipient of the ECC Architectural Design Awards Program…

Modern bridges are typically built at least a foot higher than the expected 50-year flood, but that’s not so for this unusual bridge built on the floodplains in the flood-prone Dutch city of Nijmegen. NEXT Architects and H+N+S Landscape Architects designed the Zalige Bridge, a footbridge that…

OTTAWA, February 20, 2018 – Canadian Construction Association (CCA) announced today that it has partnered with the National Trust for Canada to sponsor the 2018 Top 10 Endangered Places List. Each year, the list shines a national spotlight on historic places…

Construction companies and other employers now can track employees’ usage of safety equipment with Credential Verification Service’s new feature. CVS provides photo ID cards with a QR code. Authorized employees first scan the QR code on the employee’s card with tablet…

A new six-storey rental building at Fraser and 57th is set to be the largest multi-family building constructed to Passive House energy-efficiency standards, once it is completed in spring this year. That’s good news for the future tenants of the building,…

SAINT-LAMBERT, QC, Feb. 19, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ – Vic&Lambert, the first residential building to seek LEED® Gold certification in Saint-Lambert, today officially unveiled its model unit, which will double as a sales office. On hand for the occasion were Nicole Ménard, MNA for Laporte and…

Communitech is pleased to announce Monika Jaroszonek, CEO of Toronto-based Ratio.City has been awarded $100,000 at the Communitech Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch Competition Thursday at the Tannery Event Centre. Jaroszonek took top place after pitching her startup which uses open data available in…

The developer of a New Westminster project is giving pre-sale condo buyers a few weeks to make a choice among unusual options that speak to the curveballs facing both builder and buyer in a market environment of rapidly rising prices for…

Employees are facing an unusual problem at the new Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. One of the defining features of the office, located on the stunning 175-acre campus, is the abundant use of glass panes. Unfortunately, they have been rather hard…