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How much should one subway station cost? The city of Toronto has an answer. The plan to extend transit in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough winds back at least a decade: at one time the plan was a seven-stop light-rail line;…

North Bay, Ont., plans to harness power with its new Community Energy Park. North Bay Hydro Services broke ground on Friday on its microgrid project, which will see solar panels, a battery and a co-generator unit built on top of the YMCA. The energy…

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MONTRÉAL, Nov. 24, 2017 /CNW/ – Making our communities smarter by being innovative and using data and connected technology will help Canadians live better lives now and prepare for the challenges ahead. Following the official kick-off of the Smart Cities Challenge by the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi,…

City planners have rejected the design for the second phase of the James Avenue Pumping Station redevelopment, a complex project that involves the preservation of a 106-year-old heritage building and the construction of two new residential towers on either side of it. In…

A plan called Big River Landscape won an international design competition to redevelop Nepean Point, but construction on the project won’t start until 2019. The National Capital Commission’s board of directors received 26 proposals for the redesign of the lookout, and selected four finalists who presented…

The property tax assessment fiasco that plagued the New Brunswick government has been examined by auditor general Kim MacPherson who found miscommunication to have played a key role in moving forward on new processes that caused thousands of assessments to unnecessarily…

Residents of an apartment block in Calgary’s Kensington area came home to a sign on the door that said “do not occupy” and officials telling them they had 15 minutes to pack some belongings and evacuate the building Thursday afternoon. Emergency…

TORONTO, Nov. 23, 2017 /CNW/ – Mattamy Homes, North America’s largest privately owned homebuilder, is proud to have been named as one of Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures for 2017. The honour recognizes organizations for having cultures that help sustain performance and are the benchmark for success.…

The Canadian construction boom is bringing new facets of the construction insurance sector into the limelight. There’s a huge amount of competition in the sector, which is keeping insurers and brokers on their toes. Construction insurance is traditionally quite a tricky market…

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…