Special Feature
Industry Innovations
Below are articles from the latest Industry Innovations Special Feature Newsletter, published August 28, 2020 by the Journal of Commerce.
Feature Articles - Industry Innovations
Metro Vancouver’s ‘Contech’ sector ready to serve local construction
Metro Vancouver’s young construction technology sector (contech) is growing quic...
Economic , Technology
Can innovation cure what ails Canadian construction?
Because disease – in all its different forms – is still on everyone’s mind the J...
Technology
City of White Rock pilots remote virtual smartphone plumbing inspections
The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired considerable innovation in the Canadian const...
Technology
UBC’s Brock Commons goes “to BIM and beyond” with Digital Twins
Building Information Modelling (BIM) has helped co-ordinate communication betwee...
Technology
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Canada's Urban Population Growth
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This infographic looks at the latest Canadian population growth rates.
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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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‘We are sitting on a goldmine of renewable energy’: SFU policy expert
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Resource
Canadian construction companies rate digital maturity as ‘under-developed’ in new survey
When asked in a survey to evaluate their digital transformation efforts, 64 per...
Associations , Economic
EDC economist revises 2021 forecasts, expects dramatic jumps in U.S. and Canadian growth
The chief economist for Export Development Canada (EDC) has revised his economic...
Associations , Economic
Historic 108-year-old mining structure saved near Nanaimo
NANAIMO, B.C. — The restoration of a more than 100-year-old coal mining structur...
Projects
Canadian designers, developers have ‘a lot to learn’ from Asian cities, says panellist
The Canadian design and development world can see the future if it looks to Asia...
Projects
Canada has new ways to pressure Washington over softwood lumber duties: ambassador
VANCOUVER — Canadian officials have new leverage as they urge Washington to nego...
Government , Resource , US News
Is a northern Canada transportation corridor a realistic goal?
The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy (SPP) is investigating, in a...
Infrastructure
Construction sector included in new WorkSafeBC hearing test submission system
Constant exposure to noise generated by ongoing activity and heavy equipment tha...