Kitchener city council has approved a mixed-use development that will combine a new fire station with purpose-built rental housing in the city’s downtown. At its July 13 meeting before the summer...
The Government of Canada has awarded PCL Construction Canada Inc. a $768.6-million construction services contract for a major federal science campus in Ottawa. The contract covers the Regulatory and...
Against a backdrop of climate change, inflation, and armed conflict, the global energy system is undergoing change and facing scrutiny. As stated by the United Nations, buildings must be heated, lit...
A study led by Perkins&Will suggests modular mass timber could help Canada accelerate housing delivery while reducing environmental impacts and strengthening domestic construction capacity. The...
The University of Toronto is launching a new development model it says will allow it to add thousands of student residence spaces faster and at a lower cost than traditional construction...
Peel Region, the City of Brampton, and project partners recently celebrated the topping out of Basswood Senior Residences, a 198-unit affordable seniors housing project on Main Street in Brampton...
Housing policy in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area cannot address the housing crisis if it continues to ignore homebuyers’ preferences. Land-use policy has prioritized increasing housing density...
Canada’s housing crisis stems from two major gaps: affordability and supply. The prevailing wisdom is that we can build our way out of both. The logic of the Carney government’s Build Canada Homes...
The deadline to submit your project to the Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence and Photo Awards of Excellence is quickly approaching. Submissions of projects in the design phase or under...
The City of Greater Sudbury’s adoption of the new federal Housing Design Catalogue could help smaller homebuilders and homeowners, but larger, more established homebuilders as unlikely to benefit as...