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When it comes to small appliances, there’s a golden rule for ensuring they don’t start a fire in your home – unplug them when you are not using them. That’s especially true with any appliance that produces heat, including toasters, toaster…

Stucco is wonderful stuff, and has been used for thousands of years in hot, dry countries; Roman stucco is still visible in Pompeii. Stucco is also cheap; in Vancouver, British Columbia, it was used on thousands of condos built in the…

Sidewalk Labs, a Google company aiming to branch out into city planning, has come up with a futuristic vision for a chunk of the lakefront in Canada’s biggest city. The plan for Quayside, a data-oriented high-tech neighbourhood in the city’s east…

For the past seven years, Hong Kong has held the title of the world’s priciest city for home-buyers, according to the 2017 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. James Law, a Hong Kong-based architect, believes that his micro-homes could help alleviate the…

Waterloo, ON (February 1, 2018) – For the fifth consecutive year, PCL Construction was pleased to support the engineering professionals of tomorrow as the title sponsor of the 44th Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR), held in Waterloo, Ontario from January 24 to…

OTTAWA February 1, 2018 — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has released the 2018 Prospective Home Buyer Survey (#PHBS2018). This survey, the first of its kind for CMHC, explores the dynamics of home buying intentions for three groups of future homebuyers,…

SURREY, BC, JANUARY 30, 2018 – Duradek is proud to announce the addition of CEDARWOOD vinyl decking, the 4th addition to the popular Legacy line of vinyl decking in naturally inspired colors and textures. Legacy CEDARWOOD provides homeowners a stylish option…

Three-dimensional printing is one of the most talked-about technologies of this decade. Some consider it the beginning of the third industrial revolution, while others point out the constraints of the technique. Is 3D printing changing our architecture, and is it the…

Note: The below article discusses the gender imbalance in the UK construction sector. I personally am a big advocate of having more women enter into the construction trades and there are some great organizations in Canada including but not limited to:…

The Toronto condominium developer building the tower on Parcel Y at River Landing is planning another big project, this time in the Broadway district. Urban Capital, which is building the 126-unit, 20-storey high-rise condo building called No. 1 River Landing, has…

The City of Longueuil has recovered some $6 million from companies that admitted having colluded on municipal contracts, as part of a voluntary repayment program set up by the Quebec government in late 2015. Radio-Canada has learned at least four companies, including engineering…

The first time Stephen Fai laid eyes on Parliament Hill, he was heading to architectural school in Ottawa. Having grown up on the Prairies, he had never seen anything quite like the tall, stately Peace Tower and the surrounding complex. Blown away…

PayProp is used by the property management system to manage their transactions and back office processes. East Vista Management Inc. provides a full range of services to investors through the end-to-end process of finding, buying and managing their income property. “At…

A construction workers’ union has released a report arguing employers are bringing in cheap foreign labour for construction projects in British Columbia by misusing a program meant for other specialized workers. The Laborers’ International Union of North America, which represents 100,000…

A supervisor jailed for a scaffolding collapse in which four men were killed and another was seriously hurt lost his bid on Tuesday to challenge his criminal-negligence conviction and 3 1/2-year sentence. In dismissing his appeal, Ontario’s top court agreed with…