INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES: Gender Equity in Construction: What Do We Think About...
This is the third article in a series addressing gender equity in the Canadian construction industry. It develops the analysis that the role of project manager carries an embedded gender bias which has...
View ArticleCONSTRUCTION CORNER: How not to build a ‘sick building’
We first began hearing about "sick buildings" 25 or more years ago. We were making our first stab at really tight buildings in the name of energy efficiency. We skimped on ventilation, perhaps, and...
View ArticlePHOTO: College Street Residence
Construction is moving up on the student residence tower University Place on College Street in Toronto, Ont.
View ArticlePHOTO: Townhome Teardown
ProGreen Demolition Ltd. continues the demolition of Regent Park Phase 3B-1 at River and Dundas Street East in Toronto for The Daniels Corp.
View ArticleORBA convention aims to drive performance
It seemed like a natural fit to have four-time Indy-car winner James Hinchcliffe tell his harrowing story during the 89th Annual Ontario Road Builders' Association (ORBA) Convention and Annual General...
View ArticleA tiny house with big expectations
BIG RIVER, SASK.—A tiny house carrying big expectations is headed to the Big River First Nation in Saskatchewan. The 16-foot by eight-foot home will provide shelter for a previously homeless man living...
View ArticleReplacement desperately needed for Halifax hospital: workers
HALIFAX—The water is undrinkable due to pipes fouled by Legionnaire's disease, floods routinely disrupt surgeries and send nurses scrambling to save medical equipment, bedbugs are rampant in some units...
View ArticleSolid gains in U.S. construction hiring
WASHINGTON—U.S. businesses stepped up hiring in December 2015, led by solid gains in construction and retail, a private survey found. Payroll processor ADP said Jan. 6 that companies added 257,000 jobs...
View ArticleProvince aims to tackle underground economy
TORONTO—The province is looking for input from Ontario's construction sector on ways to deal with the underground economy.
View ArticleCanada’s Construction also Driven by Demographic Factors
In a recent article, there was an analysis of how changes over time in the number of individuals in various age cohorts in the U.S. play crucial roles in driving some type-of-structure construction...
View ArticleA Baker’s Dozen Mid-January Economic Nuggets
In the early going of 2016, the headline story has been the heightened level of anxiety displayed by stock market investors. Versus 2015’s year-end closings, both the Dow Jones Industrials index and...
View ArticlePHOTO: Welcome Centre Progress
Construction is progressing at the Humber College Welcome Centre at 2 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr. Toronto, Ont.
View ArticlePHOTO: New Hospital Tower
Work continues on the Joseph Brant Hospital redevelopment in Burlington, Ont.
View ArticleSwing stage sentence sends ‘smarten up’ message
Ontario's building trades council doesn't want to see supervisors, owners, or contractors go to jail. It's not an ideal outcome. "We want the carnage stopped in the workplace," says business manager...
View ArticleRams moving to L.A., St. Louis stadium scrapped
ST. LOUIS—The NFL is abandoning St. Louis again, and this time, the mayor has no interest in trying to bring pro football back. League owners voted Jan. 12 to allow the Rams to move to Los Angeles...
View ArticleUnexpected renovation work to blame for numerous evictions
MINNEDOSA, MAN.—More than two dozen tenants — most of them seniors — are being evicted from a western Manitoba apartment block due to what provincial officials call unanticipated renovation work.
View ArticleToo early to blame contractor for Nipigon bridge failure: Wynne
NIPIGON, Ont.—Premier Kathleen Wynne says it's too early to start blaming the contractor for problems with the Nipigon River Bridge in northern Ontario, which failed on Jan. 10 and severed the sole...
View ArticleOshawa sets new building records
OSHAWA, ONT.—Oshawa is setting new building records, five of them in all.
View ArticleTests begin Monday to determine why the Nipigon bridge failed
TORONTO —Two independent testing facilities have been hired to find out what led to the failure of the Nipigon River Bridge in northern Ontario last Sunday (Jan. 10).
View ArticleProposed Ring of Fire railway faces issues
TORONTO—China Railway has agreed with KWG Resources to undertake a feasibility study into building a rail line between Nakina, Ont. and KWG property in the Ring of Fire. But even if the railway is...
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