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RJC wins Vancouver Heritage Award for conserving St. Andrew’s-Wesley United...
Photo by Adrien Williams, courtesy RJC Engineers. RJC Engineers and Ryder Architecture have won Vancouver’s Heritage Award, in recognition of their recent conservation of the city’s 1930s-era St....
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Building a barrier-free Canada
Photo © LOGOBOOM / Adobe Stock. Some 22% of Canadians aged 15 and up live with a disability that limits their daily activities. Accessing transportation, eating at a restaurant or shopping for...
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Pumps: Improving efficiency for the Park Hyatt Hotel
Photo courtesy Park Hyatt Toronto. After a major refurbishment to event spaces and 219 guest suites at Toronto’s 17-storey Park Hyatt Hotel, the building’s managers also wanted to improve its heating...
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Exiting beyond the exit
Image courtesy Avinash Gupta. Whenever there is a fire emergency in a building, the most immediate response is to evacuate occupants before the environment becomes unsafe. Every area of occupancy must...
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Smith + Andersen and Footprint expand to Hamilton
Photo courtesy Smith + Andersen. Consulting engineering firm Smith + Andersen has opened its 10th Canadian office in Hamilton, from which it will serve clients across the Greater Hamilton and Niagara...
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World’s largest 3-D printed building completed
Photo courtesy Cobod. Printed Farms has reportedly completed the world’s largest three-dimensional (3-D) printed building—an equestrian facility in Wellington, Florida—using Cobod’s Bod2 construction...
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Low-carbon heating goes mainstream
The new Waterloo Public Library features a black solar air heating system. Photo by Steve Evans, courtesy ward99 architects and John MacDonald Architect. The energy performance of a building is usually...
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Plastic connectors designed for tube-based construction
Photo courtesy JW Winco. JW Winco has added glass fibre-reinforced polyamide clamp connectors to its standard product line for tube-based construction for building machinery and plants. While...
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The benefits of PEX in repiping
Photo courtesy Uponor. Nearly half a million commercial and industrial structures are in service across Canada. Many are past the 50-year mark. The cost to renovate aging buildings now equals that of...
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Wire tracers advance troubleshooting and safety
Photo courtesy Fluke. The new Fluke 2052 Advanced and 2062 Advanced Pro wire tracers are designed to safely and accurately troubleshoot energized and de-energized wires in commercial, industrial and...
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HH Angus moves Vancouver office
Photo courtesy HH Angus. HH Angus has moved its Vancouver operations to larger premises to accommodate a growing team of almost 30 staff, as the consulting engineering firm’s workload continues to...
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Standard developed to reduce risk of indoor disease transmission
Image courtesy ASHRAE. In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the newly approved ASHRAE Standard 241, Control of Infectious Aerosols, establishes minimum requirements to mitigate the risk of...
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APEGA and AAA clarify building envelope practice rights
Logos courtesy APEGA. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) and the Alberta Association of Architects (AAA) have issued a joint practice bulletin to clarify...
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Hidi Group appoints principal of building performance and commissioning
Photo courtesy The Hidi Group. The Hidi Group has appointed Alex Crandall principal of building performance and commissioning. Crandall has more than 15 years’ experience in energy reporting and...
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Feds support construction of mass-timber office building in Vancouver
Rendering courtesy Dialog. The federal government is contributing $3.5 million toward the construction of The Hive, a hybrid mass-timber commercial office building in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats...
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Graham to build new Dawson Creek and District Hospital
Rendering courtesy Graham. Graham Construction has signed a design-build agreement with British Columbia’s Northern Health Authority for the new Dawson Creek and District Hospital. “This is a...
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Pomerleau promotes CFO to CEO
Photo courtesy Pomerleau. On Aug. 7, current Pomerleau Construction chief financial officer (CFO) and executive vice-president (EVP) Philippe Adam will become the new CEO. Having joined the Canadian...
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Stantec to design VCC’s Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation
Rendering courtesy Stantec. Vancouver Community College (VCC) has selected Stantec to design the Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation, a new educational facility to be added to its campus....
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Entuitive hires leader for Ottawa office
Photo courtesy Entuitive. Greg Woltman, P.Eng., has joined Entuitive as an associate and structural engineering lead for its Ottawa office, which opened in 2022. Woltman has 16 years’ experience across...
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Exp to provide civil engineering for Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre
Rendering courtesy Dorte Mandrup Architects and Guy Architects, via Exp. Through an international design competition, Canadian consulting engineering firm Exp has been selected to provide civil...
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