Heritage Construction and Preservation
Below are articles from the latest Heritage Construction and Preservation Special Feature by the Journal of Commerce.
Feature Articles - Heritage Construction and Preservation
![Evolving technology a lifeline to saving Canada’s heritage buildings](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/09/JS-Tech-and-heritage-Sask-legislatureMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/09/RMTC-Credit-Jerry-GrajewskiMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/FRONT-DO-Deerpark-20230616_09-087_West-ViewMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/PC-HERITAGE-ASBESTOS-5503-BlenheimMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/PC-HERITAGE-Yaletown-squareMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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’](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/Store-Pix-No-8MainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/PK-Happy-Hans-Cuckoo-ClockMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/DO-20230202_Case-Goods16MainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/FRONT-PK-HERITAGE-Fort-mississaugaMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/PG-3-BARRETT-1-MAINWEB-01-300x169.png)
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](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/08/PC-church-Ryder-architecture-St.-AndrewsMainWEB-heritage-300x169.png)
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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![Over 200 members of Indigenous communities across Canada gain valuable construction skills](https://cc-production-uploads-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2024/06/FRONT-DO-Mohawk-College-C2R2-CWDP-Photo-4MainWEB-IPD-300x169.png)
Over 200 members of Indigenous communities across Canada gain valuable construction skills
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