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B.C. industry calls for stronger municipal carbon pollution standards for new buildings
B.C. industry calls for stronger municipal carbon pollution standards for new buildings
VANCOUVER – The Pembina Institute has sent a letter signed by more than 30 members of the construction industry to mayors and councillors across British Columbia urging them to vote to adopt the Province of B.C.’s new voluntary Zero-Carbon Step Code (ZCSC...
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Pathways Alliance watching Trans Mountain’s latest hurdles with dismay
CALGARY — The group behind a proposed carbon capture and storage network for Alb...
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Clean energy tax credits garner support, but a split on wage requirements
While some industry stakeholders agree on the utility of federal clean energy ta...
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ZEBx marks five-year anniversary
VANCOUVER – The Zero Emissions Building Exchange (ZEBx) marked its fifth anniver...
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B.C. industry calls for stronger municipal carbon pollution standards for new buildings
VANCOUVER – The Pembina Institute has sent a letter signed by more than 30 membe...
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Pathways Alliance watching Trans Mountain’s latest hurdles with dismay
CALGARY — The group behind a proposed carbon capture and storage network for Alb...
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Clean energy tax credits garner support, but a split on wage requirements
While some industry stakeholders agree on the utility of federal clean energy ta...
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ZEBx marks five-year anniversary
VANCOUVER – The Zero Emissions Building Exchange (ZEBx) marked its fifth anniver...
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B.C. steel company sees major business spike after Kelowna fires
Kelowna-based BC Steel Ltd., a full-service company that engineers, designs and...
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Coastal GasLink fined $340,000 for erosion, sediment control challenges
CALGARY - Coastal GasLink has been fined $340,000 by the B.C. Environmental Asse...
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Alberta invests $7 million in Cenovus SMR study
EDMONTON – The Province of Alberta is investing $7 million through the Technolog...
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FortisBC, City of Vancouver collaborate on landfill renewable natural gas project
SURREY, B.C. – FortisBC Energy Inc. and the City of Vancouver are working togeth...
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Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt w...
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Climate and Construction: Welcome to the new Stone Age
“If you’re looking for a low carbon, reusable material that is strong, robust an...
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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...
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Your top JOC headlines: Sept. 11 to 15
Your top JOC headlines this week feature news the Trans Mountain pipeline comple...
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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...
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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...
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Alberta enters global lithium race with opening of first extraction pilot project
OLDS, ALTA. - Alberta got out of the starting gates in the global critical miner...
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Precision Drilling to buy CWC Energy Services in deal valued at $141M
CALGARY - Precision Drilling Corp. has signed an agreement to acquire CWC Energy...
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Forest Practices Board releases Campbell River audit results
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. – The British Columbia Forest Practices Board (BCFPB) has r...
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Climate and Construction: Governments assist in the creation of a global ‘green steel’ market
What is “green steel?” Some say it’s steel created from scrap metal. Others poin...
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Enbridge to purchase three U.S. utilities for $14 billion in cash and debt
CALGARY, ALTA. - Enbridge Inc. says it has signed a US$14 billion cash-and-debt...
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CAPP says oil, natural gas emissions down 24 per cent over last decade
CALGARY, ALTA. – Canada’s Oil & Natural Gas Producers (CAPP) have announced...
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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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LiUNA Local 1611 donates $20k to B.C. wildfire relief
SURREY, B.C. – LiUNA Local 1611, located in Surrey, B.C. is donating $20,000 to...
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Alberta geothermal company helps power German homes
EDMONTON – Eavor, an Alberta company building a closed-loop geothermal system, i...
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Steel Creek partners with Manitoba manufacturer for new lightweight concrete
Steel Creek Developers, a construction and development company that specializes...
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Inside Innovation: Breakthrough U.K. steel production technique could reduce CO2 emissions by 88 per cent
Over the past 140 years, structural steel has become a fundamental material for...
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Trans Mountain facing intense deadline pressure to finish pipeline on time: Documents
CALGARY, ALTA. - New documents suggest the Crown corporation behind the Trans Mo...
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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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B.C. construction industry steps up to wildfire threat and aftermath
While wildfires have forced many in British Columbia’s southern interior to evac...
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Your top JOC headlines: Aug. 21 to 25
Your top JOC headlines this week feature wildfire news out of Kelowna where a be...
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Renewables pause in Alberta affecting 118 projects worth $33 billion, think tank says
EDMONTON, ALTA. - After two decades in the oilpatch, Shawn Hubbard was tired of...
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Canada to seek judicial review of latest U.S. decision on softwood lumber duties
WASHINGTON — The federal government in Ottawa is pushing back against the latest...
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Trans Mountain pipeline project runs into fresh construction related hurdle
CALGARY, ALTA. - The Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project has run into...
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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...
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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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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...
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Canada has nothing to fear over Britain’s RAAC turmoil
The U.K. government has been shaken by the potential failure of structural produ...
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Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt w...
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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...
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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...