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Stantec to acquire select Cardno businesses to grow Environmental Services footprint

Building Oct 29, 2021

Stantec announced it has entered into share purchase agreements to acquire the North America and Asia Pacific engineering and consulting groups (the Select Assets) of Cardno Limited.Under the terms of the Acquisition, Stantec will…

Architecture

Ontario to make it easier for immigrants to work in their professions

Maan Alhmidi – THE CANADIAN PRESS Oct 21, 2021

TORONTO – Ontario is set to introduce legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to get licensed to work in professions that match their areas of expertise.Labour Minister Monte McNaughton said the proposed legislation…

Design

Design Firms Selected for Laboratories Canada Ontario

Building Mar 19, 2021

Laboratories Canada has selected a joint venture team (known as Canada FIRST) comprising Architecture49, HOK and WSP to design projects in the Ontario Regional Projects (LC) bundle.Canada FIRST supports Laboratories Canada in its…

Construction

Body of second worker recovered from rubble of building collapse in London, Ont.

Colin Perkel – THE CANADIAN PRESS Dec 14, 2020

TORONTO – Workers sifting through the rubble of a partially collapsed building in London, Ont., recovered the body of a second victim, city officials said on Sunday of the construction mishap that also killed the father of an infant.The…

Awards

Winners announced for B.C. Consulting Engineers Awards

Building Feb 6, 2018

Consulting engineers were recognized for excellence in B.C.’s transportation infrastructure designs, for their outstanding work on major bridge replacements, highway safety upgrades, remote avalanche-control systems, and separated cycling…

Architecture

Engineers: lives lost in Mexico quake could have been saved

By Garance Burke - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct 11, 2017

MEXICO CITY – Nearly two-thirds of the buildings that collapsed in Mexico City's monstrous earthquake last month were built using a construction method that is now forbidden in seismic hotspots in the United States, Chile and New Zealand,…