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Inside Innovation: New solutions for building tall in tight spaces
Inside Innovation: New solutions for building tall in tight spaces
Constructing tall buildings in tight urban spaces poses several challenges, including the ground level disruption caused by traditional craning. Innovative solutions that not only address these challenges while simultaneously increasing the speed and effi...
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...
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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...
Technology , US News
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...
Projects , Technology
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...
Technology
Inside Innovation: Measuring the growth of mass timber buildings
Mass timber (MT) is seen by many as an answer to construction’s embodied carbon...
Technology
What are the benefits of generative AI in design?
Generative design — the merging of artificial intelligence and machine learning...
Technology
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...
Technology
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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Your top JOC headlines: Oct. 23 to 27
Making headlines this week in the JOC newsroom is a development, or lack thereof...
Infrastructure , Projects , Technology
Inside Innovation: AI adoption in construction is all about the data
Construction’s mixed relationship with what are termed disruptive technologies h...
Technology
AI in construction: Legal implications for the new frontier
AI is increasingly being used in the construction industry and, as with many inn...
Technology
New heavy-lift drone can carry much more than its fair share
It’s touted to be the first heavy-lift drone that can carry more than its own we...
Technology
Alberta’s largest 3D-printed housing project will create Star Lodges
On a muddy, brown construction site at Siksika Nation, a community of 7,800 an h...
Projects , Technology
Kelowna adopts AI to speed up processing of permits
Kelowna, B.C. is developing artificial intelligence (AI) to help streamline plan...
Government , Technology
Inside Innovation: Leading heavy equipment makers are jumping to hydrogen
There’s a lot of “buzz” when it comes to electrically powered equipment. Most ma...
Technology
B.C. working on new digital building permit tool
VICTORIA – The Government of British Columbia, along with partners, is working o...
Government , Technology
Insurance Essentials: How contractors and builders can safely use artificial intelligence
It’s estimated 92 per cent of construction companies use or intend to us...
Economic , Technology
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‘One giant step backwards’: Manitoba stakeholders voice opposition to PLA reversal
WINNIPEG – Some Manitoba construction associations are warning against a change...
Government , Labour
Why can’t transit projects be delivered on time?
Among all construction projects, it’s unarguable large transit projects have the...
Infrastructure , Projects
Manitoba proposes new workplace safety legislation
WINNIPEG – The Manitoba government is introducing proposed legislation to re-est...
Government , OH&S
A firm foundation: Base station on track for new Grouse Mountain gondola
A self-erecting crane towers over the construction site nestled next to a parkin...
Projects
Project manager Melanie Knowles paving her own path forward in construction
Not only was she eastern Ontario’s first representative on the Ontario Asphalt P...
Labour
New nine-level Vancouver Art Gallery incorporates Coast Salish weaving techniques
Fencing has been erected and heavy equipment is being brought in to start demoli...
Projects
Powerline technician Melissa Dawe weathers all kinds of storms to help others
Although not wanting to go into too many details, Connect Atlantic Utility Servi...
Labour
Can a mixed-use development revive a once-busy Vancouver neighbourhood?
The City of Vancouver recently received an application from developer BGO to rez...