Construction activity rebounds despite tough economic conditions: JLL
Posted: Sep 13th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsA report by JLL revealed that the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) industrial market witnessed continued cooling in the second quarter as average net asking rents slipped below the $18.00-mark for the first time since 2022.[...]
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No start date for Supreme Court renovation amid lengthy relocation delay
Posted: Sep 7th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsA construction worker is seen on the restored copper roof of the West Memorial Building in Ottawa on October 19, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Preparation of a temporary new home for the Supreme Court[...]
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Over 260,000 Canadian small businesses severely impacted by construction in recent years: CFIB
Posted: Aug 28th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsPhoto by Life Of Pix from Pexels A report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) called Hard hats and hard times: Public construction impacts on small businesses has revealed that almost seven in[...]
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Toronto lays bylaw charges against companies that blocked road after cyclist death
Posted: Aug 25th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsA cyclist negotiates a bike path through the Don River Revitalization and Gardiner Expressway Demolition projects in Toronto on Thursday August 17, 2023. The City of Toronto says it has laid bylaw charges against two[...]
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Western Memorial Regional Hospital Establishes New Infrastructure Standard and Earns LEED Silver Certification
Posted: Aug 24th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsPhoto credit: Julian Parkinson Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, recently received LEED Silver Certification. The new hospital features Canada’s largest geothermal system. The geothermal field is roughly 600 feet below[...]
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Racialized workers less likely to be unionized: report
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2024In: ConstructionNewsWorkers are pictured at the Vancouver Shipyard on October 7, 2013. Black and racialized workers in Canada are significantly less likely to be represented by a union, according to a new report. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan[...]
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Trade minister criticizes higher U.S. softwood lumber duties as unfair, unwarranted
Posted: Aug 22nd, 2024In: ConstructionNewsLogs are unloaded at Murray Brothers Lumber Company woodlot in Madawaska, Ont. on Tuesday April 25, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Canada’s international trade minister is criticizing the U.S. Department of Commerce for nearly doubling[...]
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B.C. adds $2.65 billion for Fraser Valley Highway 1 improvement initiative
Posted: Aug 21st, 2024In: ConstructionNewsVehicles travel on a closed portion of the Trans-Canada Highway past farms surrounded by floodwaters at dusk as seen in an aerial view from a Canadian Forces reconnaissance flight in Abbotsford, B.C., on Nov. 22,[...]
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Canada’s construction sector remains positive in Q2 2024: Report
Posted: Aug 15th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsconstruction site of under construction building: architectural project at sunset. Overall sentiment remains positive and to a similar extent as in the first three months of the year, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered[...]
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Ontario developer coalition asks governments for tax breaks to pass on to homebuyers
Posted: Aug 10th, 2024In: ConstructionNewsConstruction workers build new row homes in Ottawa on June 25. A new coalition of Ontario developers have written to three levels of government to ask for a reduction in taxes and, in exchange, will[...]
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