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PNE Amphitheatre demo underway, new build cost escalates
PNE Amphitheatre demo underway, new build cost escalates
Construction crews have started tearing down infrastructure at the 59-year-old PNE Amphitheatre in the core of Hastings Park in Vancouver in preparation for a complete rebuild slated to begin next spring. The project will transform the outdoor venue into...
Infrastructure , Projects
Construction begins on Royal BC Museum collections building
VICTORIA – Construction has started on the Royal BC Museum’s (RBCM) collections...
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Alberta invests $16 million in affordable housing repairs and upgrades
EDMONTON – The Government of Alberta is spending $16 million for the repair and...
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Water, land and the canoe the essence behind VCC’s innovation centre
Excavation and shoring work will begin next spring for a massive, state-of-the-a...
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PNE Amphitheatre demo underway, new build cost escalates
Construction crews have started tearing down infrastructure at the 59-year-old P...
Infrastructure , Projects
Construction begins on Royal BC Museum collections building
VICTORIA – Construction has started on the Royal BC Museum’s (RBCM) collections...
Projects
Alberta invests $16 million in affordable housing repairs and upgrades
EDMONTON – The Government of Alberta is spending $16 million for the repair and...
Government , Projects
Water, land and the canoe the essence behind VCC’s innovation centre
Excavation and shoring work will begin next spring for a massive, state-of-the-a...
Projects
Alberta invests $5 million in U of Calgary science hub
CALGARY, ALTA. – The Government of Alberta is putting $5 million in planning fun...
Government , Projects
CCA urges provincial funding for proposed $380M multi-sport fieldhouse
The Calgary Construction Association (CCA) is strongly supporting a proposed $38...
Infrastructure , Projects
Burnaby Hospital redevelopment expands to include inpatient tower and cancer centre
BURNABY, B.C. – The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment has expanded its scope to inc...
Projects
Top 10 major upcoming educational and medical construction projects – Canada – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming educational and medical c...
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest con...
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Kicking Horse Canyon project extends closures as it nears final construction push
GOLDEN, B.C. – The Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4 construction project is nearing...
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Steel pipeline network to transform Saskatchewan’s geothermal energy to electric power
The Earth’s core isn’t expected to cool down for another 91 billion years, so as...
Projects , Technology
Trans Mountain says ‘worst case’ could see pipeline completion delayed to end of 2024
CALGARY — The crown corporation behind the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say...
Projects
Performing arts center finally opens at ground zero after two decades
NEW YORK - In a mammoth room behind translucent marble walls, workers are settin...
Projects
Not all stained-glass in heritage buildings is created equal
Not all stained-glass in older North American church buildings is created equal...
Projects , US News
Your top JOC headlines: Sept. 4 to 8
Your top JOC headlines this week feature a project profile on a new mass timber...
Economic , Infrastructure , Projects
Bird to build two new post-secondary projects valued at $280M in B.C.
VICTORIA — Bird Construction Inc. has been awarded two contracts: construction m...
Projects
Federal government invests in HVAC retrofit for Snuneymuxw Daycare
NANAIMO, B.C. – The Government of Canada is investing $281,460 to support a heat...
Government , Projects
New SFU museum a mass timber tribute to its wooded surroundings
Construction crews have begun moving equipment onto a parcel of property at the...
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Winnipeg’s modernist architecture takes a bow
Most Canadians know about the extensive collection of turn-of-the-20th-century c...
Projects
Raymond Moriyama, renowned Canadian architect behind iconic buildings, dies at 93
TORONTO - Raymond Moriyama, a renowned architect behind the design of some of Ca...
Projects
Historic $1.5B redevelopment being planned for Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre
Planning is underway for a $1.5-billion redevelopment project at the Health Scie...
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Your Top JOC headlines: Aug. 28 to Sept. 1
Your top construction headlines from the JOC this week include updates on the wi...
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Seattle Art Museum stone entrance to rise again
SEATTLE - Western Specialty Contractors – Seattle Branch has been contracted to...
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Federal, B.C. govt’s invest in Abbotsford’s Montrose Exchange
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – The federal government and the province of British Columbia h...
Government , Projects
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,...
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Reborn heritage buildings contain deadly hazardous materials
Trasolini Construction Corp. is rehabilitating and renovating an old Vancouver f...
Projects
Bridgemans beats the clock with timely workforce ‘floatels’
Vancouver-based Bridgemans Services Group is celebrating the 10th year of its ma...
Projects
Federal government invests in Richmond Oval outdoor event space
RICHMOND, B.C. – The government of Canada is investing $750,000 through the Cana...
Government , Projects
Edmonton opens its first net-zero energy building
EDMONTON, ALTA. – Edmonton’s 31st fire station is the city’s first net-zero ener...
Projects , Technology
Surrey approves $14.5 million for Cloverdale complex finishing and envelope work
SURREY, B.C. – Surrey City Council recently approved a $14.5 million contract to...
Infrastructure , Projects
Underground parking garage drives mass timber forward in B.C.
Underground parking garages are traditionally made of concrete, but the construc...
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Feds invest more than $2.5 million in SAIT construction and technology centre
CALGARY – The federal government is investing more than $2.5 million to enable t...
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SNC-Lavalin changing its name to AtkinsRealis in effort to shed parts of its past
MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin says it is changing its name to AtkinsRealis in a rebrand...
Economic
Highway 97 recovery in B.C. shows progress
SUMMERLAND, B.C. – Highway 97 north of Summerland, B.C. will reopen to single-la...
Infrastructure
Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest con...
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Eliminating misconceptions, filling gaps focus of national mass timber research project
The goal of a new research program is to generate technical information that sup...
Resource
Canada has nothing to fear over Britain’s RAAC turmoil
The U.K. government has been shaken by the potential failure of structural produ...
Government
Top 10 major upcoming educational and medical construction projects – Canada – September 2023
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming educational and medical c...
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Mass timber ‘part of a collective solution’ to the housing crisis
The affordable housing crisis isn’t about to go away, but there are some strateg...
Resource
EllisDon, DIALOG experts layout key elements of hybrid timber floor system during seminar
A 40-foot-long cross-laminated timber panel was unheard of in the mass timber wo...