Deere sales drop amid tough conditions in construction, forestry equipment...
MOLINE, ILL. - Illinois-based equipment manufacturer Deere and Company, which sells John Deere construction equipment among other products, announced a drop-off in sales for its third quarter worldwide...
View Article$30.5-million investment in Wabush Airport
WABUSH, N.L. - As part of its Atlantic Growth Strategy, the federal government announced Aug. 18 it is investing in two infrastructure projects at the Wabush Airport.
View ArticlePHOTO: Station Cover Up
Work is progressing on the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) – Pioneer Village Station in Toronto. Walsh Construction Company Canada is the general contractor and the owner/developer is the...
View ArticleGreen Building Awards celebrate environmental excellence
Winners of the ninth annual Canadian Green Building Awards have been announced in celebration of several structures across Canada that combine a high level of environmentally conscious design with...
View ArticleEssex pharmacy expands with construction pluck
What happens when you own a business, are thinking about expanding and there happens to be a perfectly good empty building 50 feet away?
View ArticleNew guide helps builders tackle resource roads
A new national field guide published recently is designed to help roadbuilders construct roads across wetlands in Canada’s boreal forest.
View ArticlePHOTO: A Preserved Piece
Below grade work is moving along at the King Blue condos and mixed-use project from developer Greenland Group in Toronto.
View ArticlePrecision mapping to paint an accurate portrait of Nova Scotia
The Nova Scotia government has issued an RFP for the first stage of mapping the topography of the province using LiDAR technology that will help determine where to build and develop projects ranging...
View ArticleRoyal Alberta Museum marks construction completion
EDMONTON—The governments of Alberta and Canada are marking the completion of construction at the new Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alta.
View ArticleWind turbine builder fined $60,000 after worker injury
WINDSOR, ONT.—CS Wind Canada Inc., a manufacturer of wind turbine towers, pleaded guilty and has been fined $60,000 after a worker was injured by moving components of a tower under construction,...
View ArticleOn Autumn’s Doorstep, an Assessment of Canada’s Economic Outlook
Canada has been experiencing more months of declines in ‘real’ (i.e., inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) so far in 2016 than increases. According to Statistics Canada, February (-0.1% for...
View ArticleGordie Howe Bridge buzzing in early works
Observers of the multibillion-dollar Gordie Howe International Bridge project getting underway in the Windsor-Detroit area might expect that the early works construction phase is merely preliminary to...
View ArticleProperty acquisition problems may affect bridge timeline
Windsor, Ont.—If the Gordie Howe International Bridge project appears to be snake bit, don’t blame the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA).
View ArticleConstruction Corner: Growing materials on demand where they’re needed
DARPA, it has been said, is in the business of turning science fiction into fact.
View ArticleForest products company Tolko Industries shutting down
THE PAS, Man. —A forest products company that is the largest employer in The Pas in northern Manitoba says it will shut down in December.
View ArticleConference board lowers 2016 growth projections
OTTAWA —A new Conference Board of Canada report has downgraded its projections for economic growth in 2016 from 1.6 per cent to 1.4 per cent, despite a strong start to the year.
View ArticleFortress of Louisbourg gets $10-million road improvement
Parks Canada is giving the road between the community of Louisbourg, N.S. and the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site a $10-million facelift.
View ArticleNorthern roads summer construction season heats up
Work continued this season on two projects in the North Ontario highways program which have seen ongoing upgrades over successive years.
View ArticleBike lane blitz: 72 hours with a pavement marking contractor
In a $500,000-pilot project designed to test the impacts and benefits of bike lanes along Bloor Street, the City of Toronto needed to move quickly to transform road lanes and avoid major traffic...
View ArticleHighway 69 twinning linking its way north
One more link in Ontario’s long-term plan to twin Highway 69 from Parry Sound to Sudbury has been forged with the recent completion of an $80-million, 11-kilometre long road widening south of Sudbury.
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