News
-
Fast + Epp building a new home office
Vancouver-based structural engineering firm is building a four-storey hybrid mass timber and steel headquarters with electrochromic glass and innovative earthquake-resistance technology.
-
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.
-
SNC-Lavalin interim CEO makes first reorganization moves
The firm is exiting lump-sum turnkey contracting and creating two new business reporting units: SNCL Projects and SNCL Engineering Services.
-
Massive new YMCA opens in Lethbridge
The Cor Van Raay YMCA at the ATB Centre is the third largest Y facility in North America.
-
SNC-Lavalin moves to larger office in Port Elgin, Ont.
The new 12,000 sq. ft. facility will accommodate growing workforce in support of its Bruce Power Life Extension Program.
-
Leadership handover at Associated Engineering
Kerry Rudd retires as CEO of AE after 37 years with the firm, and Martin Jobke takes on the role of president/CEO.
-
Staff announcements at NOR•EX Engineering
Part of the Associated Engineering group of companies, Al Fitzgerald is now GM operating out of Kamloops along with Dana Woodworth who is leading the community resilience practice.
-
Infrastructure Bank investing in rural Ontario water project
The crown corporation will finance this municipality-led procurement approach as a pilot project to demonstrate a new model for structuring and financing smaller municipal water and wastewater infrastructure schemes.
-
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.
-
Grundfos Canada breaks ground on site expansion
The facility expansion will double the size of the company’s warehousing and service capabilities at its Oakville, Ont. headquarters.
-
Feds commit $1.3B to Montreal Metro’s Blue Line extension
The project once completed will include five new stations and cover nearly 6 additional kilometres, including 5.8km of tunnel, connecting the current Saint-Michel station to Anjou.
-
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.
-
New president at Reliable Controls
Thomas Zaban, P.Eng., is taking over the top spot as company founder Roland Laird retires at the end of 2019.
-
Inauguration of Montreal’s Samuel De Champlain Bridge
Construction of the 3.4km bridge, which spans the St. Lawrence River between the communities of Montreal and Brossard, took just over four years to complete.
-
StatsCan: snapshot of Canadian municipal wastewater systems
Just over 5 900 million cubic metres of sewage flowed through municipal wastewater systems that processed 100 cubic metres per day or more of sewage in 2017.
-
River Birch Global Water partners on new U.S.-based wastewater remediation business
Quantum Water Services Corp. is a new Delaware-based corporation that will specialize in the treatment of wastewater in the oil & gas industry.
-
SNC-Lavalin extends relationship with Emirates Global Aluminum
SNC-Lavalin’s partnership with EGA started in 2004, providing front end engineering design (FEED), engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) and technology packaging services.
-
NORR Group appoints Brian Gerstmar as president/CEO
Gerstmar has been a part of the business for over 30 years, starting his career at NORR in 1986.
-
Short list for Vancouver’s Broadway Subway project announced
The 5.7km extension of the Millennium Line will add six underground stations.
-
Calgary and Vancouver release Resilience Strategies
Both cities are members of the 100 Resilient Cities initiative, and they have launched independent resilience strategies.
-
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.
-
Infrastructure Bank commits $55M for VIA’s high frequency rail proposal for Quebec City-Toronto corridor
The funding will be used to establish a Joint Project Team using Canada Infrastructure Bank and VIA Rail Canada’s expertise, as well as external advisors.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Trans Mountain pipeline approved to proceed
Every dollar the federal government earns from the project will be invested in Canada’s clean energy transition.
-
Graham led team selected for Metrolinx Davenport Diamond rail grade separation project
The project includes the construction of a rail grade separation structure between north-south GO Barrie Rail corridor and east-west CP Rail corridor.
-
SNC-Lavalin names VP of Project Oversight
Nigel White will lead the newly created project oversight function, a global role based in London, UK, responsible for ensuring delivery and execution across all the operations.
-
MTE Consultants growing its Southwestern Ontario footprint
The firm has been growing its capacity and service offering in the London area with the recent acquisitions of two London-based consulting firms, BioLogic and Hastings and Aziz.
-
NRC and University of Waterloo create new IoT collaboration hub
This new innovation centre will lead to discoveries and advances including publications, patents, and the commercialization of technology.
-
AECOM spinning off its government services business
This move follows a list of actions AECOM has taken to improve shareholder value, including cost cutting, the anticipated exit of hard-bid at-risk construction, the exit of non-core oil & gas and fixed-price combined-cycle gas power plant construction, the planned exit from more than 30 countries and the decision to no longer pursue international at-risk construction opportunities.
