It is only days before the 2019 Federal Election, and what many in our industry are waiting to see is what, if anything, the winning party will do to address a relatively new-ish top-of-mind- issue to most Canadians: housing affordability…

Public consultation should be considered an integral strategy for your project—and not just an item to check off a list Too many people think of public consultation as a “checklist” item for their development project. You know, something…

On July 1, 2018, most of the revisions of the overhauled Construction Lien Act (which was renamed the Construction Act, or the “New Act”) came into force in Ontario. On October 1st of this year the prompt payment and adjudication provisions…

Politicians from all parties should be asked tough questions about their support of Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs Quayside project while on the campaign trail. This is an artist’s rendering of the project. Sidewalk Toronto With the federal…

In the inaugural episode of his podcast Single Serves, Arnaud Marthouret chats with marketing consultant Dave Sharp, president of Melbourne-based Vanity Projects, about how and why architects are navigating the world of social media.…

Rhys Phillips chats with Scott Addison, president, Brokerage Services at Colliers Internationals, about the wide-ranging effects PropTech is having on real estate development.How would you define “PropTech?”In my role we touch…

Rhys Phillips chats with Matthew Boukall, vice president, Product Management, Data Solutions at Altus Group, about the wide-ranging effects PropTech is having on real estate development.Given its wide reach, what do you believe are…

The biggest challenge when assessing the impact of property technology or “PropTech” on commercial real estate (CRE) is establishing a working definition. For our purposes we start by limiting PropTech to the impacts of the digital…

Forgive me, but I had to laugh. It happened while I was attending a mock Shark Tank where three PropTech companies presented their tech to a jury of three established industry experts and a room full of real estate professionals (mostly…

In construction, details are everything.Companies are losing millions of dollars in productivity using outdated equipment. This, in turn, has paved the way for AI to emerge on sites around the globe, reinventing the construction…