Providence Health Care has announced a $1 billion plan for a new St. Paul’s Hospital and health care campus.

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) and ULC Standards have announced the development of a Joint National Standard for balloon-type ball backwater valves.

The British Columbia government has announced a new 10-year transportation plan, called “B.C. on the Move.” The $2.5 billion plan outlines critical investments and improvements

Obie Erickson, vice president of Manufacturing at Britco, has been appointed as interim president of Britco's Canadian operations.

Alberta’s recently released Budget 2015 includes a new five-year Capital Plan that will meet the province’s needs for new infrastructure. This includes roads, schools, hospitals and

Although Ontario faces a $16 billion construction economy related to industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) developments, the recently released Ontario Construction Secretariat’s (OCS) annual Construction

B.C. is expected to record a surplus of close to a billion dollars for the next three years. This puts the province in a very exclusive “balanced budget club” not only in Canada but North America

Ground has been broken on North America’s first closed-loop waste management system in Surrey, B.C., with construction to begin this spring. The project is located

The B.C. government has introduced a new Building Act to establish more consistent building requirements throughout the province. The construction sector has been asking for a standard

The opening of the $1.4 billion Evergreen line in Metro Vancouver has been pushed to the fall of 2016. The tunnel boring process has been

The B.C. and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council has filed a civil lawsuit against B.C. Hydro in B.C. Supreme Court, claiming its open shop labour model for the Site C dam project would unconstitutionally hurt union organization.

To achieve better energy efficiency, ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) have revised a standard, creating a more detailed description of procedures for the

The City of Toronto was recognized with a 2015 Ontario Wood Award for repurposing city trees and promoting local wood products and urban forestry services.

An industry committee led by the Asia Pacific Gateway Skills Table (Skills Table) is advancing the development of a voluntary, Canada-wide demonstration of skills test

Construction jobs in the Lower Mainland-Southwest Region totaled 116,300 in January 2015, according to the Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA). This represents a 2.3 per

North American design firm Stantec has acquired Seattle-based, 130-person Sparling, and their lighting design division Candela. A recognized industry authority in electrical engineering and architectural

The British Columbia Construction Association has announced that Susan Zacharias, owner of United Concrete & Gravel Ltd., will assume the role of board chair for