2017 – a Record Year for CIMCON Lighting
BOSTON, Jan. 9, 2018 /CNW/ — CIMCON Lighting, the leading global provider of Intelligent Lighting Controls and Smart City technologies, announced that it finished 2017 with record growth across all areas of the company, including customer deployments, new employees, capital investment, innovative product introductions…
CMHC: 226,777 new housing units started in Canada during December
OTTAWA, January 9, 2018 — The trend in housing starts was 226,777 units in December 2017, compared to 226,178 units in November 2017, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally…
Ottawa architect argues for national architecture policy
With Quebec’s order of architects pushing for a provincial architecture policy, an Ottawa architect is calling on the federal government to set goals for the whole country. “It’s not so much just about ugly buildings, but really about what does the built…
IAPMO Develops Water Demand Calculator for Residential Buildings
Ontario, Calif. (Jan. 8, 2018) — The International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) has made available a Water Demand Calculator (WDC) that estimates peak water demand in residential buildings. The WDC will appear in the appendices of both the…
$2.1 Billion AI research industrial park being built in China
Over the past year, more nations have come to realize the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the economics of the future. With Russia, the United States, and the United Emirates all funding serious efforts to advance AI tech, China has established a three-year program to…
QuirkLogic Announces Quilla™ Real-Time Ideation Solution 1.1
CALGARY, AB and LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwired – January 04, 2018) – QuirkLogic has unveiled an array of new features for Quilla™, the world’s first digital writing solution for real-time ideation. The company is a provider of productivity technology that helps corporate teams spark and…
A look at the Crowchild bridge retrofit project in Calgary
The Crowchild Trail bridge was built in the mid-1960s, when about 300,000 people lived in Calgary. Today, the city’s population is pushing 1.3 million citizens — not to mention visitors and commuters from burgeoning bedroom communities on all sides — most of…