Heritage Construction and Preservation
Below are articles from the latest Heritage Construction and Preservation Special Feature by the Daily Commercial News.
Feature Articles - Heritage Construction and Preservation
Evolving technology a lifeline to saving Canada’s heritage buildings
Evolving construction and engineering technology will play a key role in preserv...
Technology
Winnipeg’s modernist architecture takes a bow
Most Canadians know about the extensive collection of turn-of-the-20th-century c...
Projects
Deer Park United Church hides its radical transformation well
For more than a century Deer Park United Church has been a landmark on St. Clair...
Infrastructure
Reborn heritage buildings contain deadly hazardous materials
Trasolini Construction Corp. is rehabilitating and renovating an old Vancouver f...
Projects
What was once old is new again in Vancouver heritage rehabilitation
Built in 1908 at the corner of Homer and Drake in Vancouver’s Yaletown district,...
Projects
Support being rallied to move historic ‘time capsule’
After Lillian Crosina died in 1963 while minding the 153 Mile Store her father b...
Projects
World’s tallest freestanding cuckoo clock, B.C.’s Happy Hans, undergoing historic restoration
At 22 feet, the world’s tallest freestanding cuckoo clock happens to be located...
Projects
Whiskey warehouse converted to new college campus in Toronto
Once a distilled whiskey warehouse, an almost century-old four-storey masonry, t...
Infrastructure
Fort Mississauga restoration winning the battle against invasive moisture
Fort Mississauga in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. served for years as an imposing mi...
Infrastructure
Group of Seven painting inspires historic barn restoration
When Dale and Dave Cox drove up with the real estate agent to the old property i...
Labour
Vancouver church wins heritage award for upgrades
An upgrade of St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church has won a 2023 Vancouver Heritag...
Projects
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Top 20 U.S. Mega Project Starts
In 2020, there were 11 projects valued at $1 billion or more each, and 26 projects of 1 million square feet or more each.
Canada's Urban Population Growth
This infographic looks at the surge in Canada's urban population growth.
Canadian Demographics
This infographic looks at the latest Canadian population growth rates.
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Infrastructure
Gordie Howe International Bridge tower construction almost complete
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Infrastructure
SNC-Lavalin changing its name to AtkinsRealis in effort to shed parts of its past
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OH&S
New $1.2B Thunder Bay correctional centre the first of its kind in Ontario
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest con...
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Graham outlines what goes into constructing U of T Lawson Centre for Sustainability
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Projects
Eliminating misconceptions, filling gaps focus of national mass timber research project
The goal of a new research program is to generate technical information that sup...