Infrastructure
Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt wind turbine rising 150 metres into the sky about 12 kilometres east of the town of 3,000 people. At this northern location, construction and assembly of the tower proved less...
Infrastructure , Resource
Metrolinx completes improvements to Stouffville Line GO stations
TORONTO — Metrolinx has announced the completion of improvements to the Agincour...
Infrastructure
Windsor company introduces revolutionary ‘Poo Pit’ manhole replacement shafts
Notwithstanding its inauspicious name, the Poo Pit may revolutionize the install...
Infrastructure
New $1.2B Thunder Bay correctional centre the first of its kind in Ontario
Construction crews are presently doing civil work and finishing a substructure t...
Infrastructure , Projects
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Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt w...
Infrastructure , Resource
Metrolinx completes improvements to Stouffville Line GO stations
TORONTO — Metrolinx has announced the completion of improvements to the Agincour...
Infrastructure
Windsor company introduces revolutionary ‘Poo Pit’ manhole replacement shafts
Notwithstanding its inauspicious name, the Poo Pit may revolutionize the install...
Infrastructure
New $1.2B Thunder Bay correctional centre the first of its kind in Ontario
Construction crews are presently doing civil work and finishing a substructure t...
Infrastructure , Projects
North Caribou Lake First Nation connects to provincial power grid
FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION, ONT. — Wataynikaneyap Power and North Caribou Lake Fi...
Infrastructure , Resource
Undo Line 5 shutdown order, federal government’s filing urges U.S. appeals court
WASHINGTON - Ottawa is urging a U.S. appeals court to reverse a Wisconsin judge'...
Infrastructure , US News
Government gears up to replace Little Current Swing Bridge on Highway 6
LITTLE CURRENT, ONT. — The planning, preliminary design and environmental assess...
Infrastructure , Projects
Adelaide Street underpass project a breath of fresh air for London residents
An extensive infrastructure project along an east London, Ont. thoroughfare prom...
Infrastructure
Province approves tender for replacement secondary school in Aurora
AURORA, ONT. — The Ontario government has provided the York Region District Scho...
Government , Infrastructure
Your top DCN headlines: Sept. 11 to 15
Your top DCN headlines this week feature news SNC-Lavalin is changing its name i...
Economic , Government , Infrastructure , OH&S , Resource
All eyes on London, Ont.’s Victoria Bridge replacement
Community eyes are watching as a bridge replacement near downtown London, Ont.,...
Infrastructure
Top 10 major upcoming educational and medical construction projects – Canada – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming educational and medical c...
Infrastructure , Projects
Science Collaboration Centre opens at Chalk River Laboratories
CHALK RIVER, ONT. - The Chalk River Laboratories recently celebrated the opening...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects , Resource
Shakespeare’s story: Saving over 100 buildings from the wrecking ball
Mel Shakespeare has been repurposing old buildings for decades, long before adap...
Infrastructure
Biden, Modi and EU unveil rail and shipping project linking India to Middle East and Europe
NEW DELHI - President Joe Biden and his allies on Saturday announced plans to bu...
Government , Infrastructure , US News
Rogers ordered to open TTC wireless network to all carriers: Minister
TORONTO - The federal government is forcing Rogers Communications Inc. to grant...
Government , Infrastructure
Gordie Howe International Bridge tower construction almost complete
DETROIT — Over the next four weeks there will be major changes on the constructi...
Infrastructure
$85.3M Grandview Kids HQ begins to take shape in Ajax
The new Grandview Kids headquarters project in Durham Region is progressing and...
Infrastructure
UK government likened to ‘cowboy builders’ as 147 schools named at risk due to crumbling concrete
LONDON - The British government has been accused of “cutting corners” as it publ...
Infrastructure , OH&S
Toronto launches maintenance program on Don Mills bridge
TORONTO — The City of Toronto has announced a program of overnight construction...
Infrastructure
Powered by solar and wind, this $10B transmission line will carry more energy than the Hoover Dam
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam...
Infrastructure , Projects , US News
Ontario completes Thunder Bay District highway upgrade
THUNDER BAY — The Ontario government has announced it has completed the widening...
Infrastructure
Look up, look way up: Solar panels at new Saint Mary’s University residence rising 20 storeys
An existing residence tower on Saint Mary’s University campus in Halifax is gett...
Infrastructure
Kontrol Technologies awards Ontario rail contract
TORONTO — Kontrol Technologies Corp. has announced it has been selected to provi...
Infrastructure
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
Cities urged to consider IPD for infrastructure jobs
The time has come for municipal governments to consider Integrated Project Deliv...
Associations , Government , Infrastructure
18 years after Katrina levee breaches, group wants future engineers to learn from past mistakes
Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures - and how to avoi...
Infrastructure , US News
VIA Rail continues heritage station upgrades
WINNIPEG — VIA Rail has announced it is spending $80 million to renovate heritag...
Infrastructure
Expansion work progresses at Maple GO Station
MAPLE, ONT. — New infrastructure is being built at the Maple GO station and alon...
Infrastructure
RESCON’s upcoming housing summit will provide update on Ontario’s ongoing housing crisis
As concerns around the housing crisis in Ontario and beyond continue to grow, th...
Infrastructure
Broccolini announces new Toronto River Street condo project
TORONTO - Montreal-based builder Broccolini has announced the launch of a second...
Infrastructure
Bearskin Lake First Nation connects to provincial power grid
FORT WILLIAM FIRST NATION, ONT. — Bearskin Lake First Nation was recently energi...
Infrastructure , Resource
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$85.3M Grandview Kids HQ begins to take shape in Ajax
The new Grandview Kids headquarters project in Durham Region is progressing and...
Infrastructure
Gordie Howe International Bridge tower construction almost complete
DETROIT — Over the next four weeks there will be major changes on the constructi...
Infrastructure
SNC-Lavalin changing its name to AtkinsRealis in effort to shed parts of its past
MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin says it is changing its name to AtkinsRealis in a rebrand...
Economic
UPDATE: Police locate driver and car involved in hit-and-run of road worker
TORONTO - A 24-year-old from North York is in custody after a road maintenance w...
OH&S
New $1.2B Thunder Bay correctional centre the first of its kind in Ontario
Construction crews are presently doing civil work and finishing a substructure t...
Infrastructure , Projects
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...
Projects , US News
Graham outlines what goes into constructing U of T Lawson Centre for Sustainability
The Lawson Centre for Sustainability is a four-storey, hybrid mass timber and co...
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...