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The Ottawa Hospital and Hydro Ottawa partner on new central utility plant
The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) and Hydro Ottawa announced a partnership to build an energy efficient central utility plant to support TOH’s state-of-the-art new hospital and…
Manitoba government announces blue-ribbon infrastructure panel
The Manitoba government is creating a blue-ribbon infrastructure panel to ensure Manitobans get the roads and highways they need, Premier Wab Kinew and Transportation and…
City of Pitt Meadows breaks ground on new autonomous RCMP detachment
The City of Pitt Meadows celebrated the start of construction of the new autonomous RCMP detachment with an official ground breaking ceremony. “On behalf of…
RFPs issued for the Yonge North Subway Extension tunnelling contract
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Advance Tunnel Contract package for the Yonge North Subway Extension. The…
Vancouver, Montreal ports appoint new chief executive officers
The Montreal Port Authority (MPA) and the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority announced the appointments of Julie Gascon and Peter Xotta, respectively, as president and CEO.…
Procurement for B.C. Highway 1 project near Revelstoke moves to RFP stage
The Government of British Columbia announced it has selected three qualified teams to participate in the request for proposals (RFP) stage to design and construct…
Construction begins on the St. Paul’s Hospital Front Entrance Expansion project
The Government of Saskatchewan announced that construction is underway on the St. Paul’s Hospital Front Entrance Expansion project. Graham Construction & Engineering Inc. is leading the…
B.C. announces new student housing at University of Victoria
The Government of British Columbia announced that hundreds of additional University of Victoria (UVic) students are living on campus as a new student housing complex…
Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York receives zero carbon building certification
KingSett Capital and Fairmont Royal York announced that the landmark hotel in Toronto has received the Canada Green Building Council’s (CAGBC’s) Zero Carbon Building – Performance…
Province says moving Ontario Science Centre would save $257M
The Government Ontario and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) released the business case for moving the Ontario Science Centre from its current location at Don Mills Road…
NL awards $6.5M in multi-year capital works funding to Mount Pearl
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced it has awarded $6.5 million to the City of Mount Pearl for municipal infrastructure improvements through the 2023-26…
Alberta announces new Anthony Henday lanes open in southwest Edmonton
The Government of Alberta announced that construction to widen the southwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive is now complete. To reduce congestion and travel time…
Highway 1 expansion advances with Fraser Valley Corridor Improvement Program
The Government of British Columbia announced that the next phase of Highway 1 expansion through the Fraser Valley to the Sumas Prairie has begun, which…
City of Kingston opens first of 12 transit stations
The City of Kingston and Kingston Transit celebrated the official opening of the city’s first transit stations located on Henderson Boulevard near Jim Beattie Park.…
New Regina Urgent Care Centre now 85 per cent complete
The Government of Saskatchewan announced that Regina’s new Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at 1320 Albert Street has reached a new milestone with construction at 85…
CCPPP announces new board directors for 2023-2024
The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) announced its 2023-2024 Board of Directors. The 29-person volunteer board, including four new directors (from Concert Infrastructure, EY,…
Housing challenge is also an infrastructure challenge: FCM
New research commissioned by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) estimates that, on average across the country, the cost of the municipal infrastructure required to…
Ontario investing in rehabilitation of six dams across the province
The Government of Ontario announced it is investing $22 million to reconstruct six dams across the province to help mitigate flooding and keep people and…
Get on the Housing Bandwagon
By Richard Lyall The federal government’s decision to remove the five-per-cent GST on construction of new rental apartment buildings has come late in the game.…
Canada Infrastructure Bank launches new Indigenous Equity Initiative
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) unveiled details of its Indigenous Equity Initiative (IEI) designed to support First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities in purchasing equity…
Government of Canada announces contract to improve the Alaska Highway
Public Services and Procurement Canada announced that the Government of Canada has awarded a construction contract of $3.9 million to A.C.L. Construction Ltd. to improve…
Orangeville water pollution control plant to undergo rehabilitation
The Town of Orangeville’s water pollution control plant (WPCP) is embarking on a rehabilitation project, ensuring the plant can continue to perform at maximum efficiency…
FAO releases report estimating budget impacts of climate hazards to public infrastructure
The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario (FAO) released its final report in the Costing Climate Change Impacts to Public Infrastructure (CIPI) series. This report projects…