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Buildings
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Fengate PCL wins $1.5B P3 Restoration Project in Ontario
The five-year Macdonald Block reconstruction project near Queen’s Park in Toronto will update all core building systems which have reached the end of their useful life along with extensive remediation work.
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Groundbreaking of new Archives Canada preservation facility
Once complete in 2022 it will be the first Net Zero Carbon archival centre in the Americas.
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Feds commit $2M to Toronto and Region Conservation Authority timber office building construction
The CaGBC Zero Carbon pilot program project is designed to achieve zero carbon, Toronto Green Standard Tier 2 or higher, LEED v.4 Platinum and WELL Silver building certifications.
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EllisDon awarded $59.7M contract for Orleans Health Hub project
The Ottawa-area project involves the construction of a new 96,000 sq. ft. facility that will bring together health and community service partner organizations.
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Reliable Controls partners with sensor maker
Taiwan-based IR-TEC develops and manufactures a wide range of occupancy/vacancy sensors, daylight sensors and more for energy efficient lighting control, HVAC control and building energy management.
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Associations combine to form Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance
AAMA and IGMA announced unification discussions a year ago, with the goal of creating a new organization that can better serve the North American fenestration industry.
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Carleton University professor receives funding for building envelope research
The director of Carleton University’s Centre for Advanced Building Envelope Research has secured $5.1 million in funding which will go towards the construction of large-scale building envelope test equipment.
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RAIC releases new fee guide
The 2019 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada fee guide explores the scope of both basic and additional architectural services, the value of architectural services, different approaches to determining a fee structure, and how architectural services fees can be calculated.
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Canarm expanding commercial/industrial HVAC manufacturing facility in Ontario
The new expansion at its Brockville, Ont. facility will add an additional 90,000 sq. ft. to its existing structure in two phases.
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Ontario investing $5M in province’s first CLT plant
The proposed new $32 million manufacturing facility in St. Thomas, Ont. from Element5 is expected to be one of North America’s first fully-automated CLT plants.
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DFI publishes helical pile foundation design guide
This easy-to-follow guide is intended to be used by engineers and designers for the preliminary design and selection of helical piles and anchors.
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Massive new YMCA opens in Lethbridge
The Cor Van Raay YMCA at the ATB Centre is the third largest Y facility in North America.
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Belimo’s new ultrasonic flow sensors with glycol compensation
The flow sensors use two offset transducers to determine the flow velocity by measuring the speed of sound in the heat transfer fluid.
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UVic posts RFP for engineering school expansion
Though funding still needs to be secured, construction is anticipated to begin in summer 2021 and be completed by fall 2023.
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Cintec reinforcement anchors used in Toronto’s Massey Hall revitalization project
As Massey Hall in Toronto marks its 125th anniversary, a century and a quarter of Canadian history has been stripped bare to be restored, not only to recapture the music hall’s original sound, but to make sure it will serve…
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Using infrared to assess damage to buildings
Thermal imaging cameras display the infrared spectrum as an image, with colours representing different temperatures, and they’re effective in showing everything from the heat of a failing electrical fuse to the cold of a hidden water leak.
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PEI lands Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation
The project will include the construction of a 45,000 sq. ft. UPEI research facility in the town of St. Peter’s Bay, PEI.
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Sight Seeing
New research conducted at a downtown Toronto office tower reveals wellness benefits of natural daylight and outdoor views.
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Q&A with BrainBox AI co-founder Jean-Simon Venne
We wanted to know where the AI would deliver the most value, and so far we’re consistently seeing 25% to 35% energy savings and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by a huge percentage, about 40%.
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Sidewalk Labs releases its Master Plan for Toronto’s Quayside
The draft Master Innovation and Development Plan is over 1,500 pages and divided into three volumes.
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New Zero Energy Office Buildings Design Guide
The guide was developed by ASHRAE, the American Institute of Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society, and the U.S. Green Building Council with support and funding from the U.S. Department of Energy through the National Renewable Energy Laboratory — and it’s free.
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Library and Archives Canada’s reveals design for net-zero preservation centre
The new preservation centre will be the first “net-zero carbon” facility dedicated to archival preservation in the Americas.
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New J.L Richards headquarters to emphasize Wellness
With the release of initial renderings, JLR’s in-house design team has provided new insight into what they hope to accomplish with this project.
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Reliable’s MACH-ProZone Version 8
The MACH-ProZone is a fully programmable BACnet Building Controller with highly scalable I/O in a very small footprint.
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Leica Geosystem’s new handheld imaging laser scanner
The BLK2GO is a wireless handheld imaging laser scanner that captures 3D environments while the user is in motion, and continuously creates a digital representation of reality in the form of 3D point clouds.
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Feds invest in George Brown College’s ‘The Arbour’ project
The Government of Canada has committed to invest $4.1 million to construct The Arbour, the 10-storey, $134-million, mass-timber building project at George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus in Toronto. The funding is part of the Green Construction through Wood Program (GCWood) launched by Natural Resources Canada. It’s the first project funded through…
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Ontario launching search for Ontario Place developer
The province’s vision for the site is a destination that could include sport and entertainment landmarks, public spaces and parks, recreational facilities, as well as retail.
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RFQ Issued for Vancouver’s new St. Paul’s Hospital
The new St. Paul’s – to be constructed at a new site at 1002 Station Street in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats, 3km from the current hospital site on Burrard Street – will have capacity for up to 548 beds, which includes 115 net new beds.
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Camden’s newest illuminated Request to Exit switches
The ADA & ROHS compliant capacitive touch switches offer colour selectable LED illumination for improved visibility.
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ASHRAE Signs MoU Agreement with New Buildings Institute
The NBI is an organization driving better energy performance in commercial buildings.
