Author: Building .ca

Since dropping from the post-pandemic highs in 2021 and early 2022, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) 2025 Q1 Housing Market Index (HMI) is in its eleventh quarter of negative sentiment. CHBA’s single-family HMI is[...]

Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh from Pexels The annual Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS) Contractor Survey has found that construction employment contracted -4.1 per cent year-over-year in March while the labour force fell at a slower rate[...]

Construction workers are seen outside a Concert Properties condo development under construction, in North Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, July 25, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck British Columbia’s government celebrated the first anniversary of one of[...]

DUAL concrete brick prototype, Metric Norman format, Zurich colour. Photo credit: Virginie Gosselin An architecture firm, a builder, and a product manufacturer are joining forces to launch a range of products designed to accelerate the[...]

Ontario non-residential building contractors remain confident in continued business growth throughout 2025, despite an uncertain political landscape to start the year, the annual Ontario Construction Secretariat Contractor Survey found. The survey, which was released at[...]

A report by the Missing Middle Initiative, commissioned for the Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD) and the Ontario Home Builders’ Association (OHBA), highlights the need to increase the rate of building and focus[...]

Image credit: RESCON The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) is warning that tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will lead to price hikes for building materials and raise the price of a new home in[...]