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Inside Innovation: Rebranding Portland cement reflects industry shift from carbons
Inside Innovation: Rebranding Portland cement reflects industry shift from carbons
Portland cement has been synonymous with construction for nearly two centuries. Despite the U.S. regionalism suggested by its name, the material in fact traces back to 1824 when U.K. inventor Joseph Aspdin patented the basic process of blending water with...
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Atwill-Morin embraces exoskeletons for heavy lifting
Quebec-based construction company Atwill-Morin has acquired a dozen exoskeletons...
OH&S , Technology
Your top JOC headlines: April 1 to 5
Your top JOC headlines this week feature news nearby construction has forced the...
Associations , Infrastructure , OH&S , Technology
Intelligent robots make wall panels for Vancouver Indigenous housing project
Intelligent City, a Vancouver company that produces mass timber housing, has sta...
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Inside Innovation: Rebranding Portland cement reflects industry shift from carbons
Portland cement has been synonymous with construction for nearly two centuries....
Technology , US News
Atwill-Morin embraces exoskeletons for heavy lifting
Quebec-based construction company Atwill-Morin has acquired a dozen exoskeletons...
OH&S , Technology
Your top JOC headlines: April 1 to 5
Your top JOC headlines this week feature news nearby construction has forced the...
Associations , Infrastructure , OH&S , Technology
Intelligent robots make wall panels for Vancouver Indigenous housing project
Intelligent City, a Vancouver company that produces mass timber housing, has sta...
Technology
New technology developed to reduce mining’s impact on the environment
VANCOUVER – A new chemical process is being developed and refined in British Col...
Resource , Technology
B.C. invests in smart windows to increase energy efficiency
VANCOUVER – The Government of British Columbia is investing $1 million in a B.C....
Technology
Brock researcher explores using engineered bamboo as a sustainable building material
When you think of sustainable building materials, engineered bamboo is not the f...
Resource , Technology
Pathways Alliance to file for regulator approval on carbon capture project
CALGARY - A consortium of Canada's largest oilsands companies will submit an app...
Resource , Technology
Inside Innovation: Changing the outcome of birds versus buildings
Recent estimates suggest about 25 million birds die each year from window collis...
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Inside Innovation: New solutions for building tall in tight spaces
Constructing tall buildings in tight urban spaces poses several challenges, incl...
Technology
Technology ‘obsessed’ All Roads Construction looking to bridge skills gap
All Roads Construction bills itself as a paving company that is obsessed with te...
Infrastructure , Technology
Inside Innovation: 3D printed homes are gaining scale and popularity
Advances in robotic technology for construction lead many to believe that entire...
Technology
As market grows, EllisDon welcomes new lineup of technology solutions
EllisDon continues to advance its technology strategy this year amidst what is c...
Technology
Your top JOC headlines: Feb. 5 to 9
Your top JOC headlines this week feature a community up in arms over constructio...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects , Technology
Can heavy equipment AI change machine operation as we know it?
An operator places a small aerial drone on the ground and punches a few commands...
Technology
Robotics opening opportunities as industry goes forward: Experts
Robotics isn’t just coming to construction, it’s already here. That was the mes...
Labour , Technology
Can Artificial Intelligence make construction safety smarter?
Jacquelyn Oduro, director of Manitoba Heavy Construction Association’s WorkSafel...
OH&S , Technology
Lafarge Canada collaborates with nidus3D on largest 3D-printed home
CALGARY, ALTA. – Lafarge Canada has announced it is working with nidus3D on Cana...
Projects , Technology
AI proved its value to constructors in 2023
The rise of AI in the construction sector was one of the major stories of the ye...
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Toronto will be home to ‘world’s first fully digitally-enabled building’
Toronto is going to be the home of the “world’s first fully digitally-enabled bu...
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Panel highlights how Manitoba’s construction drone use has really taken off
The use of drones in construction is destined to grow in future as the aerial te...
Technology
The Top Five Pods of 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, we’ve compiled the top five episodes of The Constructi...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects , Technology
ChatGPT and construction: join the party
The construction sector has been notoriously slow to adopt technological innovat...
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Inside Innovation: Measuring the growth of mass timber buildings
Mass timber (MT) is seen by many as an answer to construction’s embodied carbon...
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What are the benefits of generative AI in design?
Generative design — the merging of artificial intelligence and machine learning...
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Architecture and AI need to go hand-in-hand for students: Buildings Show speaker
Artificial intelligence will reshape architecture by helping architects generate...
Technology
Smith explores the human challenges, relationships of onsite productivity
While the building industry has witnessed a technology evolution over the past c...
Labour , Technology
Simple interfaces a key to AI growth in construction: experts
Conversations on the potential uses of Artificial Intelligence in construction a...
Technology
Fibre-reinforced concrete, rammed earth formwork build on lessons from ancient history
Horse hair, beer, urine, tree bark, sugar — all have been used in ancient concre...
Technology
Legal Notes: Balancing the advantages and risks of drones in construction
Aerial visualization of worksites has proven to be valuable throughout the const...
Government , Technology
Inside Innovation: Office to residential conversions are just one option to avoid stranded assets
COVID-19 introduced the concept of remote and hybrid work into the world of comm...
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Inside Innovation: AR/VR for construction isn’t the ‘killer app’ expected, panel says
Is the construction industry too stuck in its ways? Aarni Heiskanen, a self-des...
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B.C. ups investment in forestry sector with $70.3M in funding
VANCOUVER – The Province of British Columbia has announced a capital investment...
Government , Resource
Done: Expanded Trans Mountain pipeline launches May 1
Four-and-a-half years after construction began, one of Canada’s most controversi...
Infrastructure , Projects , Resource
Manitoba introduces carbon capture and storage legislation
WINNIPEG – The Government of Manitoba is introducing legislation to reduce green...
Government , Resource
Saskatchewan water agency invests in key infrastructure projects
REGINA – Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency (WSA) is working on more than 60 w...
Government , Infrastructure
Two killed, one injured after shooting at Edmonton construction site
EDMONTON - Edmonton police are investigating the deaths of two men in the southw...
OH&S
Federal budget introduces, elaborates on clean technology tax credit plans
The 2024 federal budget is re-emphasizing the government’s commitment to a globa...
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M5 at Main Alley: A 25-storey mass timber tower prototype
M5, a 25-storey, mass timber rental housing tower, one of the tallest in the wor...
Projects , Resource
Queen’s Park to permit 18-storey mass timber construction
TORONTO — The Ontario government has announced it intends to amend the Building...