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Brownfields: ‘Real estate with an environmental personality’
Brownfields: ‘Real estate with an environmental personality’
Milestone Environmental Contracting is giving polluted sites a second lease on life across the country. “Brownfields are often thought of as being either idle or underutilized properties that have a past history that’s caused contamination or some form o...
Projects , Resource
Your top JOC headlines: Jan. 30 to Feb. 3
Your top JOC headlines this week cover a barge that is being flipped into a floa...
Infrastructure , Projects , Resource , Technology
FortisBC Holdings Inc. signs agreement with First Nation over B.C. LNG project
SURREY, B.C. — FortisBC Holdings Inc. says it has signed a deal with a First Nat...
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Mayne Island opens $1.3 million child care centre
MAYNE ISLAND, B.C. — The first standalone childcare centre on Mayne Island has o...
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Brownfields: ‘Real estate with an environmental personality’
Milestone Environmental Contracting is giving polluted sites a second lease on l...
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Your top JOC headlines: Jan. 30 to Feb. 3
Your top JOC headlines this week cover a barge that is being flipped into a floa...
Infrastructure , Projects , Resource , Technology
FortisBC Holdings Inc. signs agreement with First Nation over B.C. LNG project
SURREY, B.C. — FortisBC Holdings Inc. says it has signed a deal with a First Nat...
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Mayne Island opens $1.3 million child care centre
MAYNE ISLAND, B.C. — The first standalone childcare centre on Mayne Island has o...
Projects
Buildex Vancouver: Modular construction a housing solution for First Nations
One of the biggest challenges facing First Nations is the procurement of suitabl...
Projects
Barge transforms from war workhorse to floating hotspot
It’s not everyday someone decides to build a floating sauna with hot and cold po...
Projects
Feds use rare veto to block Alaska copper, gold mine plan
JUNEAU, AK - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday effectively vet...
Government , Projects , US News
Majority of affordable homes approved under federal program not yet constructed
OTTAWA — The federal government has set aside billions of dollars to quickly bui...
Government , Projects
Roadwork on historic Selkirk, Man. street incorporates Silva Cell construction
Over the past several months, the City of Selkirk, which has a population of abo...
Infrastructure , Projects
Your top JOC headlines: Jan. 23 to 27
Your top JOC headlines this week cover an $80 million hotel that is slated for C...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects
$32 million Bison Run School opening in Winnipeg at the end of the month
WINNIPEG, MAN. - Bison Run School, a $32 million elementary school, is set to op...
Government , Projects
Yukon announces $21 million to build affordable homes
WHITEHORSE — The Government of Yukon has announced funding to build 47 new affor...
Government , Projects
Harrison Street and Gracorp break ground on Block 15
CALGARY, ALTA. — Ground has been broken on Block 15, a 303-unit multifamily prop...
Projects
PCL transforms Calgary office building into affordable housing
An old office building has created new housing for Calgarians in need with high-...
Projects
$80M hotel could be on the rise at entrance to Stampede Park
Plans are in the works for an $80-million, 220-room hotel to be built at the nor...
Projects
Vancouver Centre II’s opening signals shift in downtown business core
Vancouver’s skyline officially has a new addition. The long-burning Vancouver C...
Projects
Prince George files civil action against HDR over faulty steel beams
The City of Prince George has filed a civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court against...
Government , Projects
Tallest building in Surrey history gets closer to final approval
SURREY, B.C. — What could be the tallest building in the City of Surrey’s histor...
Projects
Museum of Anthropology’s Great Hall getting a seismic overhaul
The hulking grey form of a large, half-completed, concrete structure looms behin...
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Your top JOC headlines: Jan. 16 to 20
Your top JOC headlines this week cover an initiative by EllisDon that supports w...
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FCM announces winners of Sustainable Communities Awards
OTTAWA — Hamilton, Ont.’s Ken Soble Passive House Retrofit project was one of ei...
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B.C. First Nation says unique deal gives it veto power over proposed coal mine
A British Columbia First Nation is celebrating a deal with a coal company that i...
Government , Projects , Resource
Genesis Fertilizers chooses Saskatchewan for proposed $1.7 billion factory
SASKATOON — Belle Plaine, Sask. has been chosen as the site of a billion-dollar...
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Saskatchewan farmer reclaiming and reusing abandoned grain elevators
The landscape of Canada's Prairie provinces is dotted with the hulking presence...
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Sky-high ambition: BFA Studio’s newest building adorns B.C. mountaintop
There’s a new gem on the crown of Burnaby Mountain. BFA Studio Architects’ rece...
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Cadillac Fairview and Shindico team up for Winnipeg community hub
WINNIPEG — Cadillac Fairview and Shindico have announced a Master Plan for CF Po...
Projects
‘Safety’s number 1:’ tiny home village for homeless opens in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - Bundles of dried sage tied together with red ribbon hang from black f...
OH&S , Projects
ReNew’s 2023 Top100 projects show consistency with unchanged $273B value
TORONTO – ReNew Canada has released its 2023 Top100 Projects report and transit...
Projects
Vancouver’s Habitat for Humanity receives largest single donation ever
COQUITLAM, B.C. — Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver has received the larges...
Projects
Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – November 2022
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Economic , Projects
Vancouver opens Dogwood Gardens housing project
VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver has officially opened 138 new affordable homes...
Projects
First Nations, Manitoba and feds team up on rental project for First Nations students
WINNIPEG, MAN. - An apartment complex slated to open next year in Winnipeg is to...
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Prince George files civil action against HDR over faulty steel beams
The City of Prince George has filed a civil claim in B.C. Supreme Court against...
Government , Projects
Modular construction just what the doctor ordered for health care
Like other sectors of the Canadian economy, the health care industry wants to sp...
Infrastructure , OH&S , Technology
PCL transforms Calgary office building into affordable housing
An old office building has created new housing for Calgarians in need with high-...
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London, Ont. building collapse survivor dedicates career to changing site safety
It’s been a long and hard road for construction worker Jacob Hurl, who was trapp...
Labour , OH&S
Tallest building in Surrey history gets closer to final approval
SURREY, B.C. — What could be the tallest building in the City of Surrey’s histor...
Projects
Untrained disassembly and poor communication linked to fatal B.C. ammonia release
VANCOUVER - The independent body that oversees the safety of technical systems a...
OH&S
ACCIONA forecasts more collaborative models for building infrastructure in 2023
When it comes to the market outlook for 2023, the industry is going to see a con...
Infrastructure
Forecast panellists optimistic about prospects for construction growth
Panellists at a recent construction forecast event expressed both short-term and...