Infrastructure
Fix approvals, start building says Electricity Canada
Fix approvals, start building says Electricity Canada
A new report from Electricity Canada drives home the urgency of expanding Canada’s clean power resources to meet national decarbonization goals and identifies five barriers to reaching those goals. The report, titled Build Things Faster, cites funding, p...
Infrastructure
Oshawa development aims to transform industrial site into residential community
A former south Oshawa, Ont. industrial area could be completely transformed with...
Infrastructure
Your top DCN headlines: May 29 to June 2
Your top DCN headlines this week cover an AEC Cares initiative that aims to supp...
Associations , Infrastructure , OH&S , Projects
Canadian RICS members cautiously positive about the next 12 months
A new report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) suggests C...
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Fix approvals, start building says Electricity Canada
A new report from Electricity Canada drives home the urgency of expanding Canada...
Infrastructure
Oshawa development aims to transform industrial site into residential community
A former south Oshawa, Ont. industrial area could be completely transformed with...
Infrastructure
Your top DCN headlines: May 29 to June 2
Your top DCN headlines this week cover an AEC Cares initiative that aims to supp...
Associations , Infrastructure , OH&S , Projects
Canadian RICS members cautiously positive about the next 12 months
A new report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) suggests C...
Infrastructure
One adult, 16 children injured in fall during school trip to Winnipeg historic site
WINNIPEG — Sixteen schoolchildren and one adult are in hospital after a fall at...
Infrastructure , OH&S
Kerr Wood Leidal celebrated for shoreline impacts calculator
Kerr Wood Leidal Associates (KWL) has won a 2023 ACEC British Columbia (ACEC-BC)...
Infrastructure
New home market in GTA rebounded in April, starts return to normal levels
TORONTO - The GTA new home market rebounded in April with sales starting to retu...
Infrastructure
Brampton City Council unanimously supports tunnel option for LRT extension
City of Brampton Council has unanimously supported the tunnel alignment for the...
Infrastructure
Ottawa confident in South LRT project, learning from Confederation Line fiasco
Members of Ottawa’s Light Rail Sub-Committee said they are confident the city ha...
Infrastructure
Barton Street in Hamilton once again named CAA’s Worst Road
THORNHILL, ONT. — Its persistent issues with potholes and severe alligator crack...
Infrastructure
Westmar Advisors wins award for Wuikinuxv debris wall and wharf reconstruction
Westmar Advisors Inc. has won an ACEC British Columbia (ACEC-BC) 2023 award of e...
Infrastructure , Resource
Chartright commissions new Waterloo hangar
WATERLOO, ONT. — Chartright Air Group has announced the grand opening of its new...
Infrastructure
McMaster greenhouse to become a geothermal gem
Construction is underway on a massive, new, state-of-the-art greenhouse at the M...
Infrastructure
Kitchener receives funding from feds for new net-zero library
KITCHENER, ONT. — The federal government is investing more than $5.9 million to...
Infrastructure
Industry has a ‘complete void of basic knowledge’ on carbon footprints
Owners, contractors and subs are eager to take meaningful steps to decarbonize t...
Infrastructure
Industry professionals get to the root of timber building through two-day course
A recent mass timber course provided industry professionals with practical and t...
Infrastructure
Ontario breaks ground on Huntsville LTC home
HUNTSVILLE, ONT. - The Province of Ontario has announced construction is underwa...
Infrastructure
Multiple factors can bring right mix of housing: Toronto experts
Panellists gathered for a recent Urban Land Institute session on creating housin...
Infrastructure
Pieces of Prince of Wales Park shoreline puzzle coming together
Climate change and extreme flooding have been catalysts for a series of Toronto...
Infrastructure
Nova Scotia premier announces plan to build new school for francophone students
PORTERS LAKE, N.S. — Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has announced the construct...
Infrastructure
Toronto construction season includes $1.14B worth of work
TORONTO — Toronto’s 2023 construction season will include more than $1.14 billio...
Infrastructure
Consultation launched on Ontario One Call system, halting potential for locate charges from utilities
The Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and the Ministry of Energy...
Infrastructure
Your top DCN headlines: May 15 to 19
Your top DCN headlines this week cover news Metrolinx and the consortium behind...
Government , Infrastructure , Labour , OH&S
Advanced work begins on Halifax health care build
HALIFAX, N.S. — The Province of Nova Scotia has reached an agreement with Plenar...
Infrastructure
SNC-Lavalin to provide engineering services for road improvements in Peel Region
MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin has been contracted to provide engineering services for i...
Infrastructure
Highway 413: Needed to address growth or just a plan to push sprawl?
Highway 413 is not a transportation plan, but it is an arm of a plan to push spr...
Infrastructure
UPDATE: Legal battle brewing between Crosslinx Transit Solutions and Metrolinx
A legal battle is brewing between Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), the consort...
Infrastructure
SNC-Lavalin, Aecon, United JV sign $1.3B Bruce Power deal
MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin Nuclear has announced it is part of a joint venture that...
Infrastructure
Welcome to Leonardville: A student’s entry into architecture and planning
For the past 20 years students at a high school in Georgetown, Ont. have been pu...
Infrastructure
CreateTO embarks on 10-storey mass timber pilot project
When a 10-storey residence rises near Trinity Bellwoods Park on Dundas Street We...
Infrastructure
Construction workers descend on $1.4B Dwyer Hill Training Centre upgrade
A small army of construction workers is now descending on the Dwyer Hill Trainin...
Infrastructure
Acrow steel truss system used on Pont Perrault rehabilitation project in Quebec
TORONTO — A steel truss system designed by Acrow, an international bridge engine...
Infrastructure
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Oshawa development aims to transform industrial site into residential community
A former south Oshawa, Ont. industrial area could be completely transformed with...
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New building in Niagara Falls could become tallest condo in Canada
The applicant for the new 77 Niagara project in Niagara Falls, Ont. is calling i...
Projects
Hamilton shooting victim identified as IBEW apprentice
Members of IBEW Local 105 in Hamilton are currently reeling from the news that a...
Labour
Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – April 2023
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
Economic
PEO takes the lead as Ontario removes work-experience condition
TORONTO — In a move intended to boost the ability of immigrant professionals to...
Government , Labour
Employers required to have naloxone kits on construction sites as of June 1
VAUGHAN, ONT. — New legislation requiring employers to have naloxone kits on con...
OH&S
‘Trust but verify’ cautions technician who survived powerline contact
“I literally felt like I just had fought for my life while stuck on that cable.”...
OH&S
Cardus report supports open bidding on City of Toronto projects
TORONTO — New research from Cardus shows the City of Toronto could save $347 mil...