Environment

Hosting a major sporting event, such as the Olympics or FIFA World Cup is notoriously controversial, whereby the hosting prestige can, and often is, outweighed by substantial cost overruns for the organizers; a 2011 study by the…

Concrete has been around for a long time.The earliest concrete-like structures were built by the Nabatean people circa 6,500 BC, in what is now Syria and Jordan. They were concerned with the “dryness” of the mixture — what we now refer…

Hundreds of millions more people will settle in the world’s cities in the coming decades. Artificial intelligence will continue to transform every aspect of our lives. Buildings, streets and infrastructure will be hyper-connected…

As Canada continues to urbanize and big-city home prices and rents remain volatile, our affordable housing providers will face tough challenges in the years ahead. Here in Vancouver, land costs are soaring, and construction is already the…