museum

WSP

Construction Business

WSP engineering selected for RBCM building

WSP will be providing a number of engineering services for the new Royal BC Museum (RBCM) building.
Maple museum

Construction Business

Maple Reinders wins Royal BC Museum contract

Maple Reinders has been awarded the contract for the Royal BC Museum Collections and Research Building.
Inuit art

Canadian Facility Management & Design

New home for world’s largest Inuit art collection

Qaumajuq, meaning “it is bright” or “it is lit” in Inuktitut, opens virtually this week, but the 40,000-square foot addition has been almost a decade in the making.
architecture

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Canada invests in Canadian Centre for Architecture

The Government of Canada is providing more than $1.2 million in funding for the Canadian Centre for Architecture through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund.
RHFAC

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Canadian museum awarded Gold accessibility rating

The new Canada Science and Technology Museum is the first national public institution to receive the RHFAC's Accessibility Certified Gold rating.
B.C. prohibits CECRA-eligible landlords from evicting tenants

Canadian Facility Management & Design

City of Trail receives infrastructure investments

Trail, B.C. has been attracting significant investments from senior levels of government and private sector investors, setting up a major boom for the town.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Manitoba Museum exhibit space to double in size

Alloway Hall, the Manitoba Museum’s main exhibition gallery, is set to receive a $5.3-million expansion and renovations to nearly double its size. Funded by the federal and provincial governments as well as the Winnipeg Foundation, the project is the first phase in the museum’s major Capital Renewal Plan.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

New Royal Alberta Museum enters construction

The new Royal Alberta Museum, a 419,000-square-foot development, has entered construction in downtown Edmonton, Alta. The facility, which will become the largest museum in western Canada, will feature over 82,000 square feet of exhibition space focused on the natural and human history of Alberta. It replaces and doubles the size of an existing facility, built in 1967.