Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) have appointed a new president and council for the 2015 to 2016 term.

The YOO Montreal vertical village, a 20-storey condominium located in Montreal, Que., has officially entered the first stage of construction. Designed by Philippe Starck and constructed by Montreal firm Constructions Chapman, the 84-unit building will have a community focus aimed at attracting like-minded tenants with similar lifestyles and aspirations.

Property management company C-Era Property Management & Realty Associa (C-Era) has been selected to provide financial, management, communications, record-keeping and administrative services for downtown Calgary’s Drake Condominiums (Drake).

The 2015 Ontario budget lowers the tax penalty on the sale of local distribution companies for a three-year period beginning in 2016.

Two clean technology projects in Nova Scotia will receive more than $8 million from Canada’s Economic Action Plan investment in SDTC's SD Tech Fund.

Civeo Corporation (Civeo), a company specializing in long-term and temporary workforce accommodations, catering, facility management, water systems and logistics services, has won four new facility management contracts in Alberta and British Columbia. The contracts include oil sands mine, natural gas production and gold mine projects.

Aitken Place Park, a new 3,000-square-metre park planned for the Toronto waterfront, will be designed by landscape architecture firms Thomas Balsey Associates and Scott Torrance Landscape Architect Inc. The companies, based out of New York and Toronto respectively, were selected to collaborate on the project by Waterfront Toronto.

The Ontario government has accepted the advice of the Premier’s Advisory Council on Government Assets and will continue to operate a state-of-the-art Grid Control Centre in Barrie, Ont. The facility, which operates 97 per cent of the transmission grid in Ontario and the power distribution assets of Hydro One, is part of a transmission system that includes enough transmission and distribution lines to circle the earth three times.

The Emily Carr University of Art and Design is embarking on the development of a new $122.65-million campus to better accommodate increased student demand and program growth. The new campus, which will provide modern facilities for 1,800 visual arts, media arts and design students, will be located on an 18-acre site, known as Great Northern Way, on the False Creek Flats in Vancouver, B.C.

In what has been described by the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) as the largest hospital move ever made in Canada, 154 inpatients, including 139 adults and 15 babies, were recently moved from the Royal Victoria Hospital to the university’s new Glen site. The five-and-a-half hour move was a key redevelopment operation of MUHC 2015.

For the third year in a row, the Memorial Hermann Health System (Memorial Hermann) has been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the recipient of the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year-Sustained Excellence Award. Memorial Hermann was recognized for its ongoing commitment to the improvement of energy efficiency in its facilities.

Earlier this month, the Ontario Court of Justice found two St. Catharines landlords guilty of violating fire code at their apartment building on Maple Street. In reaction to the incident, the city of St. Catharines is warning other landlords to ensure their buildings comply with the Ontario Fire Code or they too will face hefty fines.

Cadillac Fairview’s GREEN AT WORK™ National Sustainability Program recently won the Green Award of the Year at the Real Estate Excellence (REX) Awards.

Federal budget promises to scrap prepayment penalties on selected long-term CMHC mortgages.

Pure Multi-Family REIT announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a multi-family apartment community located in San Antonio, Texas.

Despite the GTA office market ending 2014 on a healthy note, results from Avison Young’s Q1 report on the market show 2015 hasn’t started out as well.

The 4,940 condo apartment sales recorded by Greater Toronto Area REALTORS® in the first quarter of 2015 marked an 11.1-per-cent year-over-year increase, reports the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB).