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Melissa Valgardson’s new home in Montgomery may not look all that different to the naked eye, but visit her basement and you’ll notice something missing – the furnace. “Most of the time we can get away with a 1500 watt heater,”…

Silver Spring, MD – The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) is pleased by the decline in the frequency of injuries and illnesses involving waste collection employees, but is concerned by the increase in injuries and illnesses for workers at landfills…

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MISSISSAUGA – Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have awarded a fixed-price contract to EllisDon Infrastructure CGS RER Inc. (EllisDon) to design, build and finance the Cooksville GO Station Redevelopment project, in support of the province’s GO Regional Express Rail (RER) program.…

Food waste is an enormous problem worldwide. It’s estimated that anywhere between one-third to one-half of all food produced is wasted, contributing to food shortages or global greenhouse gas emissions when it ends up in our landfills. Some have proposed various…

A former project manager at the Jewish General Hospital has been sentenced to house arrest for his role in a scam where companies hired to do maintenance billed the institution for work that was actually done on the homes of at…

Following an official ground breaking held last month to mark the start of construction for Mizrahi Developments’ The One, shoring work has begun at the Yonge and Bloor site of the supertall tower by Foster + Partners and Core Architects. Before excavation down to a depth of four…

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the 2018 Grey to Green Conference. Now in its 6th year, Grey to Green explores the most recent green infrastructure science, economic valuation, asset management, public policy developments, new technology, and best practices in…

Windsor’s mega-hospital — with an expected price tag exceeding $1 billion — will be one of six new health-care projects in the province to move forward by 2021, according to a document released Tuesday by Infrastructure Ontario. Windsor Regional Hospital CEO…

The latest expertise, innovations, current trends and project developments in wood design and building will be presented in Vancouver next week at the 2017 Wood Solutions Conference. Speakers from Canada and around the world, including Australia, the UK and Austria will…

REGINA, Nov. 6, 2017 /CNW/ – Brandt Industries Ltd.’s strategic move into the oil and gas pipeline industry in mid-2017 is paying dividends quickly for the Regina-based company. Industry acceptance has exceeded expectations for their BLP170K and BPL220K pipelayers, available through Brandt’s network of…

A force of 500 soldiers from the 4 Engineer Support Regiment is carrying out a major restoration on the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site in Cape Breton starting Monday as part of Exercise Nihilo Sapper 2017. The troops out of…

Burj Khalifa has had a decent run as the world’s tallest building since its official opening in January 2010. Dubai’s trademark building has a few years left at the top of the world, but will soon be eclipsed by Saudi Arabia’s kilometre-high…

City council will consider the rezoning of sites up for potential infill development on an individual basis. Members instructed city staff at Monday’s council meeting to bring forward each vote of the zoning of sites individually – rather than having second…

A glitch in the system caused an ammonia scare at Pitt Meadows Arena, Sunday. The incident happened at about 9:30 p..m. when alarms in the arena went off. A check by the Pitt Meadows fire department revealed that although an indicator…