Building

The Blue Belt

Peter Sobchak
In many ways, cities can be seen as the intermingling of colourful swaths of an abstract painter’s brush: bold strips – or dare I say “belts”? — of green, grey, white, red and as discussed at length in this issue, yellow. On canvas, they…
Building

Measure Twice, Cut Once

Daoust Vukovich LLP
As most of you know, Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) has developed standards (BOMA Standards) for measuring commercial space that are widely adopted in the commercial real estate sector. From time to time, BOMA…
Building

Safety In, Safety Out

Josh Lebrun
Many construction companies have learned that what was acceptable in the past is no longer good enough to get the jobs they once had. Contracts with government and even large general contractors are on the line. While companies are feeling…
Urban Planning

Walk With Joy

Richard Joy
The mind boggles at how far back the agenda for a new deal for Canadian cities has suffered under the first few months of a new provincial government in Ontario, and it has nothing to do with ideology or partisan party politics. A…
Building

Middle Ground

Ben Myers
The two most common buzzwords in relation to housing affordability in recent years in Canada are “missing” and “middle.” According to the website missingmiddlehousing.com, “Missing Middle is a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types…