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SPONSORED: Housing Supply Summit 2.0
The Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) is hosting a free online summit on Oct. 6, 2022, to examine what has been done to boost the housing supply...
New guide to help municipalities improve flood-resiliency
Climate change is causing a steady increase in the frequency, intensity and duration of weather-related natural disasters. Damages caused by floods and rainstorms comprise...
Climate Change Won’t Wait
Getting started on climate adaptation and resiliency plans
By John Estey
Climate change is here to stay, and its impacts are creating different challenges for communities...
Strengthening Canada’s supply chain through its ports
Canada will see significant investment in port infrastructure over the coming decade, as efforts will continue to expand port capacity at several of the...
Authentic Leadership
Infrastructure Ontario’s Heather Grey-Wolf on transit-oriented, accessible infrastructure development
As chief development officer at Infrastructure Ontario (IO), Heather Grey-Wolf oversees IO’s work on transit-oriented communities,...
Moving from Shovel Ready to Shovel Worthy
By Carlo Dade
If Canada’s prospects for COVID recovery and economic growth crash in the forest of world business opinion, does it make a sound?...
Progress continues on Scarborough Subway Extension
By Joshua Patel
Scarborough’s three-stop subway extension continues to take shape with crews starting work on the project’s headwalls.
Headwalls are underground support structures made up...
Report challenges municipalities to prioritize cyber resiliency
By Glenn Miller
While the shocking events in Ukraine have raised the public profile of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU)—formerly Ryerson University—Cybersecure...
Recycled Roads
Durham Region pilots road reconstruction using recycled materials.
The principles of “rethink, reduce and reuse,” have been around a long time, but new takes on...
Driving the next wave of public transit expansion
Public transit is the backbone of livable cities. Better transit means less congestion, faster commutes, more convenience, higher productivity, and lower emissions. Simply put...
Bridging the Gap
The shifting landscape of bridge design and construction in Canada.
By Jianping Jiang and Keith Holmes
The way we design and build bridges in Canada continues...
SPONSORED: Delivering data in an intuitive, visual way
Welcome to the world of GIS data visualization, where information is collected, combed, and displayed in one place for max collaboration and better decision-making.
The...
Waste not, Want not
Library renovation project sets new standard for construction waste diversion.
Construction, renovation, and demolition waste continue to be the largest contributors of waste in municipal...
Leading the building team for the Gordie Howe International Bridge
By Connie Vitello
By all accounts the Gordie Howe International Bridge project is a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project with a price tag to match: $5.7 billion....
COVID Construction
The criteria for success in delivering B.C.’s largest secondary school
In 2017, Graham was selected as the design-build provider to replace the City of New...
Construction Claims
Canadian courts’ approach to loss of productivity claims.
By Stuart B. Hankinson and Graham Henry
Owners expect their projects completed on time and on budget.
Contractors expect...
