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Stantec Launches a Digital Idea Book Following its Inaugural Hackathon
Stantec has released a new digital Idea Book of strategies to tackle the future of city planning. These strategies were recently developed at their first Idea Hackathon, hosted in partnership with The Globe and Mail’s Globe Content Studio…
BNKC Designs The Laborers’ International Union of North America’s New Facility
The Laborers’ International Union of North America’s (LiUNA) new 48,000 square foot addition and 18,000 square foot renovation serves the increasing demand for training and skills certification in the construction industry.Designed…
GTA Sales Activity Rebounds After Five Straight Quarterly Declines: Altus Group
Total investments for the first half of 2019 in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) reached $10 billion, down 13 per cent compared to the $11.4 billion registered in the first half of 2018, according to Altus Group’s Q2 2019 results for…
Fast + Epp to Build New Mass Timber Home Office
After 30 years in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, Fast + Epp, a Vancouver-based engineering firm, is making way for its new four-storey mass timber home office.“The new building is a purpose-built structure that will give us a more…
Passages Insolites (Unusual Passages)
The 6th edition of Passages Insolites brings together 14 artworks produced by 40 local and international artists and architecture collectives whose work plays on the idea of “unusual passages”.These artists pose profound questions about…
LafargeHolcim Brings Carbon Capture Project to Canada
LafargeHolcim is improving the carbon-efficiency of its cement with the launch of the CO₂MENT partnership project with Inventys and Total.According to LafargeHolcim, the project’s objective is to build the world’s first full-cycle…
Increases in Greater Montréal Home Sales Set New Record in July
A recent residential real estate market report by the Québec Professional Association of Real Estate Brokers (QPAREB) revealed a 16 per cent increase, with 3,698 residential sales concluded in July 2019."The sales growth that we've…
Strategic Group Redevelops Vacant Office Space into a Residential Building
Calgary-based real estate company, Strategic Group, redeveloped the seven-storey Stephenson Building into a residential rental space called Cube.“We know that office-to-residential repurposing will help reinvigorate our economy…
Toronto area housing sales up 24.3 Per Cent in July, Prices Rise Due to Tighter Supply
TORONTO — The Greater Toronto Area's home price index was up 4.4 per cent last month as the supply of properties for sale tightened and the number of sales jumped 24.3 per cent from July last year, the Toronto Real Estate Board reports.…
Metro Vancouver Home Sales Edge Higher in July, Prices Still Falling
VANCOUVER — Home sales in Metro Vancouver rebounded in July, making the traditionally slow selling period the second highest month for demand this year.Figures from the Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board show residential sales…