Ontario gets main share of federal transit funds
This year's federal budget is proposing $3.4 billion in spending to improve public transit projects across the country. The spending, scheduled to roll out over three years, would fund up to 50 per...
View Article$85.4 million for union-based apprenticeship training
The federal Liberals 2016 budget will provide $85.4 million over five years to develop a new framework to support union-based apprenticeship training.
View Article2016 Canadian budget by the numbers
Ottawa - The 2016 federal budget presented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals has major commitments set aside for infrastructure spending across Canada.
View Article$3.5 billion for First Nations community construction activity
OTTAWA - The 2016 federal budget commits $3.5 billion over five years to support infrastructure in First Nations communities.
View ArticleBurlington GO station upgrades over budget and past deadline
The Burlington GO station is slated to reopen this summer — two years behind schedule and almost 20 per cent over the initial budget.
View ArticlePHOTO: Interior Finishes
Interior work progresses at the new Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness in Brampton, Ont.
View ArticleGreen building means profits, wellness: CaGBC
In a little over 10 years green building in Canada has come from being a notion promoted by a fledgling group of environmentalists to a growth industry and now, as revealed in a recent study from the...
View ArticleToronto, Vancouver housing markets charging ahead
OTTAWA—The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) raised its outlook for home sales this year as the Vancouver and Toronto markets continued to charge ahead of expectations in contrast to other cities.
View ArticleQuebec tables a ‘budget of conviction,’ says finance minister
QUEBEC—Quebec has finally controlled its spending, Finance Minister Carlos Leitao said March 17 after tabling a second consecutive balanced budget with the help of $10 billion in equalization payments.
View ArticleMetrolinx selects Colorado-based CH2M to manage Next Wave transit projects
DENVER—Ontario public transit agency Metrolinx has announced the selection of Colorado-based engineering and management consultancy CH2M to manage its Next Wave Rapid Transit (RT) Projects under a...
View ArticleYukon receives funding for community projects
WHITEHORSE, YUKON—The Yukon, under the New Building Canada’s Small Communities Fund, has secured funding for five community projects across the territory.
View ArticleChunk of ice kills worker at construction site
OTTAWA—A large piece of ice has killed a worker at a deep construction site in Ottawa.
View ArticleTop 10 largest construction project starts in Canada - February 2016
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Canada in February 2016.
View ArticleTrend lines of construction starts in Canada - February 2016
The accompanying chart shows the trend lines of construction starts in Canada as of February 2016.
View ArticleTwenty major upcoming Hotel/Motel and Retail/Shopping Center construction...
The accompanying tables show 20 of the largest upcoming Hotel/Motel and Retail/Shopping Centre construction projects. They are all in the planning stage and are mainly new projects, but may also...
View ArticleTwenty major upcoming Hotel/Motel and Shopping Centre construction projects -...
The accompanying table shows 20 of the largest upcoming Hotel/Motel and Shopping Centre construction projects in Canada. They are all in the planning stage and are mainly new projects, but may also...
View ArticleFloating concrete bunkers key to tsunami survival
Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 230,000 people, general contractor Miguel Serrano committed himself to finding a way to affordably protect at-risk populations from disaster.
View ArticleConstruction Corner: ‘Smart’ vest aims to reduce heat illnesses
There was a time when I had an office in downtown Toronto that looked out over the roof of a building next door. It was an older building, with a low-slope roof that badly needed renewal.
View ArticleCarbonCure extends its reach to U.S. Ready Mix market
A Dartmouth, N.S.-based company has made major inroads into the U.S. market with the signing of two U.S. Ready Mix companies to access its CO2 injection technology.
View ArticleDeath results in fines to Guelph welding firm, supervisor
GUELPH, ONT.—Guelph’s Oskam Welding (2014) Ltd. and one of its supervisors, Chad Wheeler, have been fined a combined total of $130,000 after a worker was killed from a fall off of the structure the...
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