Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition
Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition
Excavators have been brought in to do earthworks and prepare a site in the south end of Guelph, Ont. for a long-anticipated, multi-purpose recreation centre with twin ice pads and a double gymnasium. The $115.5-million facility, known as the South End Co...
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Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate
OTTAWA - A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Can...
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Heddle Shipyards gets $107M for vessel life extension projects in St. Catharines
ST. CATHARINES, ONT. - Heddle Shipyards, the largest ship repair and constructio...
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Climate and Construction: Build more homes faster and build them better
The 1960s ballad suggests, “A house is not a home.” Unfortunately, the North Am...
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Chicagoland community could become cricket sport mecca
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Climate and Construction: Build more homes faster and build them better
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Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition
Excavators have been brought in to do earthworks and prepare a site in the south...
Infrastructure
Heddle Shipyards gets $107M for vessel life extension projects in St. Catharines
ST. CATHARINES, ONT. - Heddle Shipyards, the largest ship repair and constructio...
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Fort Nelson First Nation developing geothermal energy on site of depleted gas wells
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MCAC’s Richard McKeagan Scholarship Series provides $25,000 for youth
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Poor Inuit housing ‘direct result of colonialism’: federal housing advocate
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Fire destroys and damages new homes in Caledon
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Indian rescuers reach 41 workers trapped in collapsed tunnel for 17 days, start pulling them out
UTTARKASHI, INDIA - Rescuers in India on Tuesday reached 41 construction workers...
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Suncor restarts production at Terra Nova after work to extend life of project
CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. says it has restarted production at its Terra Nova ...
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Committee approves heritage reconstruction build in Ottawa’s Centretown
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s Planning and Housing Committee has approved a proposal to dism...
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Twenty-two per cent of construction cones in downtown Montreal are ‘useless’: report
MONTREAL — A new report by Montreal's chamber of commerce says about one in five...
Infrastructure
Focus on the work, not who does it, says Women in Construction panellist
If you could snap your fingers and change one thing about the construction indus...
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STO poised for major advances in 2024: Young
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Labour
Ontario nixes cities’ ask to allow more of them to get housing infrastructure money
TORONTO - Ontario's housing minister is shooting down a request from big city ma...
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Province to take control of two Toronto highways in ‘new deal’ for city
TORONTO - Ontario will upload two Toronto highways to help alleviate the city's...
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Proactive climate adaptation can cut Ontario public infrastructure costs: watchdog
TORONTO — The dangers of a changing climate could add more than $4 billion per y...
Economic , Infrastructure
Ontario provides funding to create housing units in Prescott and Russell
ST-ALBERT, ONT. — Eighteen affordable housing units for seniors will be created...
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Ontario funds nine hydrogen power projects
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EllisDon employees become plant protectors on Port Lands project
Construction workers have quite a lot of tasks to complete in building a new mou...
Infrastructure
Fast-tracking Brownfield development will require political will, focus and money
To steal a line from Mark Twain, everyone talks about brownfield development, bu...
Infrastructure
U.S. Spotlight: Chicagoland pedestrian hub; massive Texas port projects; risks of drones in construction
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City of Toronto announces supportive housing milestones
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Government , Infrastructure
Backers of the 2032 Olympics confirm Brisbane stadium will be demolished and rebuilt for the games
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Projects
Municipalities say $600 billion in infrastructure needed to build 5.8 million homes
OTTAWA - The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says new research it commissi...
Government , Infrastructure
UPDATE: Rescuers in India trying to evacuate 41 workers from a collapsed tunnel are delayed again
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OH&S
Building Trades, CECCO press NextStar to discuss precise skills need on Windsor battery plant
Directors with the provincial and national building trades say they are still wa...
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Massive investments planned for Houston area ports
The Texas economy is ranked eighth largest in the world at $2.4 trillion, ahead...
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Stakeholders offer muted praise for Freeland’s fall statement
National construction stakeholders found few reasons for enthusiasm as they diss...
Government
Go big or go home: Brownfield math complex and challenging
The plan was to build 40 tiny homes in St. Thomas, Ont. on the site of a former...
Infrastructure
PHOTO: New Digs on Dupont
Construction has reached the ground level at The Dupont Residences on Dupont Str...
Projects
Fall-from-height injuries fell 19 per cent after WAH training made mandatory in Ontario
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OH&S
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A session at the recent P3 conference examined how the Ottawa LRT went off the r...
Associations
Smoky Falls dam safety project on budget and ahead of schedule
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Infrastructure
A deep dive into the successes, challenges of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
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Infrastructure
Building Trades, CECCO press NextStar to discuss precise skills need on Windsor battery plant
Directors with the provincial and national building trades say they are still wa...
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Near-term Risk of Recession in Canada Remains High
Tighter-for-longer monetary policy The Organization for Economic Co-ope...
Economic
Birchley Park development a brownfield gem in Toronto’s ‘Quarry Lands’
After sitting vacant and underutilized for approximately 70 years, a large prope...
Projects
Ontario stakeholders scramble in reaction to Sudbury SCC decision
Construction stakeholders are calling for swift action from the Ontario governme...
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