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MONTREAL, Nov. 21, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – Today ABB is pleased to announce that the Canadian Green Building Council has certified Campus Montreal with the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver accreditation. This represents an exceptional standard for a building that…

Craig Reid was looking for one detail when the provincial government released more information about the long-term care facility that crews in Corner Brook are preparing to build. And when he didn’t see it, the accessibility advocate from Mount Pearl spoke up.…

Over 80,000 houses were reduced to rubble and more than 120,000 were damaged  when a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck southwestern China, in 2014. Large-scale reconstruction initiatives are still underway and one of them–a small-scale experimental housing prototype–has received the prestigious Building of the Year…

Toronto, ON (November 22, 2017) – On December 22, 2017, PCL Constructors Canada Inc. (Toronto) is moving its district operations to adopt a new space that embraces the workplace of the future. “Our new district office space reflects an important investment…

A Port Alberni company has blasted its way into the top ranks of global innovation and technology with a new industrial cleaning machine heralded as one of the 100 most innovative technologies of 2017. The Coulson Ice Blast’s IceStorm90, which received an R&D…

The means of egress depicted on the floor plan drawings of an approved fire safety plan (FSP) should be the first choice for evacuation by building occupants in the event of fire. Although it’s a rarity that building fires occur in…

The Liberals will announce plans today to spend tens of billions in federal dollars on a housing strategy that will provide housing benefits directly to low-income tenants, as well as repairs and renovations to some 300,000 units. Multiple sources with knowledge…

Teknion Corporation today announced that two of its new workplace products have been recognized with 2017 Green Good Design Awards, including the Zones furniture collection and Focus demountable wall system. Green Good Design is jointly sponsored by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum…

The plan for a signature park backed by Mayor John Tory over the downtown rail corridor is now estimated to cost $1.66 billion. City staff are looking to push forward with design of the 21-acre (8.5-hectare) park, which is now at…

The square footage of property managed by the province’s largest property management firms has increased steadily over the past five years, according to BIV’s Biggest Commercial Property Managers in B.C. list. Since 2013, the largest firms have expanded their portfolios by an…

If you want to get into solar, there’s now more government cash on the table — but you’ll have to hurry. The On-Farm Solar Photovoltaics Program now offers 75 cents per watt for projects of 100 kilowatts or less, and 56…

Green energy will be coming from Parrsboro next spring, and it won’t be from a tidal turbine. The Parrsboro Band Association has received approval for 35 kilowatts of solar electricity to be generated from panels installed on the south-facing roof of…

Washington, D.C. (Nov. 21, 2017) — The U.S. Senate, at the urging of the plumbing industry and its partners, via language in a Department of the Interior appropriations bill for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018, expresses strong support for…

Richmond, B.C. (November 21, 2017) — Backshoring and reshoring systems both work to support the weight of newly poured concrete slabs and look extremely similar, but using the wrong one can lead to structural collapse. WorkSafeBC has recently published two safety…

There is still no timeline for when the rail line to Churchill may be fixed, but the construction of a winter road to the northern Manitoba community has begun weeks ahead of schedule. Specialized machinery has started creating a 275-kilometre temporary…