Office furniture designer Teknion Corporation (Teknion) was the recipient of five design awards at the annual Good Design Awards, held by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in collaboration with The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The Good Design Awards celebrate innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs from around the world.

Improvements to the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Canadian Plaza are officially complete, thanks to a joint investment of $35-million from the Governments of Canada and Ontario. The completion concludes a series of construction projects announced under the Let's Get Windsor-Essex Moving (LGWEM) strategy in 2004.

A $2.46-million Department of Environment building has officially opened in Watson Lake, Yukon. The 3,000-square-foot energy-efficient building includes four offices, a meeting room, work bays, a biological submission room, storage room, washrooms, and space for seasonal staff.

Artis Real Estate Investment Trust has received LEED certification at seven of its office properties across Canada and one in the United States. Four properties

Real estate is positioned prominently among industries likely to benefit from the Bank of Canada’s interest rate cut announced with today’s release of the quarterly

Through a collaboration with Montgomery Sisam Architects, Ronald McDonald House Toronto (RMH Toronto) has added an innovative 1,725-square-foot “Family Room” to the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). The room is designed to accommodate the needs of families with children undergoing long-term treatments at the hospital.

Statistics Canada will soon collect data for the Survey of Commercial and Institutional Energy Use 2015 on behalf of Natural Resources Canada (NRC). The national

A new 8,945-square-foot nursing facility has entered construction in Grand Rapids, Man. The development, which will include three exam rooms, a diagnostic services area, a two-stretcher trauma room and offices for staff, will provide Grand Rapids residents and the Misipawistik Cree Nation with a range of health care services.

Canadian jacket and outdoor apparel manufacturer Canada Goose has acquired a 45,000-square-foot facility in Scarborough, Ont. to help the company meet increasing global demand. Canada Goose acquires the building from its long-standing partner, Grand Harbour Clothing. The new facility will be the company’s second manufacturing campus in the Greater Toronto Area.

The Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA), a non-profit accrediting organization for interior design programs at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada,

As a result of a $2.085-million investment from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), a contract manufacturing and drug development research company in Toronto’s North York district will undergo renovations and an expansion. The company, Dalton Pharma Services (Dalton), will also provide $6.3-million in funding to finance the project.

The University of Ottawa’s Heart Institute is undergoing an expansion to better meet the needs of community members and enhance technological services. The expansion will establish an additional 147,000 square feet of space, including a four-storey state-of-the-art clinical addition. The existing facility is also being redeveloped.

More than 200 updates and revisions have been added to the recently released 2015 Canadian Electrical Code (CE Code), Part 1, which covers installation and

The Ontario government has committed to funding a state-of-the-art addition for the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse in Brampton, Ont. in order to meet the needs of a growing population in the region. The first two floors of the expansion will add new courtrooms, support spaces, judicial chambers and jury courtrooms. The remaining four floors will be reserved for future developments.

BOMA Toronto has announced key leadership appointments for 2015, positioning two women with notable real estate industry experience to lead Canada’s largest BOMA local association

An $867-million Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Long-Term Accommodation Project (LTAP) has been completed in Ottawa, Ont. to house Canada’s national cryptologic agency. The 72,000-square-metre

Winnipeg’s Misericordia Health Centre is currently undergoing extensive renovations, upgrades and additions and phase one is now complete. The $43-million project, set to open in stages, includes the Buhler Eye Care Centre, PRIME program, and Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre. During phase one of construction, an existing facility, known as the Maryland South building, was demolished to make way for a two-storey complex housing the aforementioned programs and centres.