Infrastructure
Ottawa Hospital and Hydro Ottawa partner to build central utility plant

Ottawa Hospital and Hydro Ottawa partner to build central utility plant
OTTAWA 鈥 The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) and Hydro Ottawa are partnering to build an energy efficient central utility plant to support the new hospital and advance sustainable energy generation in Ottawa. A memorandum of understanding to move forward with plan...
Infrastructure , Resource

OPG signs fuel deals for New Nuclear Project
CLARINGTON, ONT. 鈥 Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has announced a series of part...
Infrastructure , Resource

Niagara Falls landmark to be transformed into $200 million boutique hotel
After a three-stage public procurement process, redevelopment plans are now lock...
Infrastructure , Labour

Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
The top DCN headlines this week feature a historic deal between Ontario and the...
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Ottawa Hospital and Hydro Ottawa partner to build central utility plant
OTTAWA 鈥 The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) and Hydro Ottawa are partnering to build an e...
Infrastructure , Resource

OPG signs fuel deals for New Nuclear Project
CLARINGTON, ONT. 鈥 Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has announced a series of part...
Infrastructure , Resource

Niagara Falls landmark to be transformed into $200 million boutique hotel
After a three-stage public procurement process, redevelopment plans are now lock...
Infrastructure , Labour

Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 27 to Dec. 1
The top DCN headlines this week feature a historic deal between Ontario and the...
Government , Infrastructure , OH&S , Projects

Biden administration proposes biggest changes to lead pipe rules in more than three decades
Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under st...
Government , Infrastructure , US News

University Avenue lanes will be closed for infrastructure upgrades
TORONTO 鈥 Southbound University Avenue between College Street and Queen Street W...
Infrastructure

New Brunswick boosting spending on roads, schools and health care facilities
FREDERICTON 鈥 The New Brunswick government has tabled a $1.2-billion capital bud...
Government , Infrastructure

CIB unveils Indigenous project funding scheme
Look for significant new Indigenous-linked projects to be greenlit now that the...
Government , Infrastructure

RCCAO 鈥榦ptimistic鈥 Ontario-Toronto funding deal will help address state-of-good-repair backlog
TORONTO 鈥 Nadia Todorova, executive director of the Residential and Civil Constr...
Associations , Government , Infrastructure

Ontario releases 鈥榖usiness case鈥 for moving science centre to Ontario Place
TORONTO - An analysis of the state of the Ontario Science Centre found that buil...
Government , Infrastructure

Climate and Construction: Build more homes faster and build them better
The 1960s ballad suggests, 鈥淎 house is not a home.鈥 Unfortunately, the North Am...
Government , Infrastructure

Long-awaited $115M Guelph community centre comes to fruition
Excavators have been brought in to do earthworks and prepare a site in the south...
Infrastructure

Fire destroys and damages new homes in Caledon
CALEDON, ONT. 鈥 An early morning fire destroyed two houses and damaged others....
Infrastructure

Twenty-two per cent of construction cones in downtown Montreal are ‘useless’: report
MONTREAL 鈥 A new report by Montreal's chamber of commerce says about one in five...
Infrastructure

Ontario nixes cities’ ask to allow more of them to get housing infrastructure money
TORONTO - Ontario's housing minister is shooting down a request from big city ma...
Government , Infrastructure

Province to take control of two Toronto highways in ‘new deal’ for city
TORONTO聽- Ontario will upload two聽Toronto聽highways to help alleviate the city's...
Government , Infrastructure

Proactive climate adaptation can cut Ontario public infrastructure costs: watchdog
TORONTO 鈥 The dangers of a changing climate could add more than $4 billion per y...
Economic , Infrastructure

EllisDon employees become plant protectors on Port Lands project
Construction workers have quite a lot of tasks to complete in building a new mou...
Infrastructure

Fast-tracking Brownfield development will require political will, focus and money
To steal a line from Mark Twain, everyone talks about brownfield development, bu...
Infrastructure

City of Toronto announces supportive housing milestones
TORONTO - The City of Toronto announced milestones for two supportive housing pr...
Government , Infrastructure

Municipalities say $600 billion in infrastructure needed to build 5.8 million homes
OTTAWA - The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says new research it commissi...
Government , Infrastructure

Building Trades, CECCO press NextStar to discuss precise skills need on Windsor battery plant
Directors with the provincial and national building trades say they are still wa...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects

Go big or go home: Brownfield math complex and challenging
The plan was to build 40 tiny homes in St. Thomas, Ont. on the site of a former...
Infrastructure

Stockholm’s urban congestion strategy built from the bottom-up
Strategies to reduce traffic congestion and the associated GHG emissions can be...
Infrastructure , Resource

EllisDon lands Toronto Warden Station redevelopment job
TORONTO 鈥 EllisDon has announced it has been selected to lead the Warden Station...
Infrastructure

A deep dive into the successes, challenges of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
The use of the P3 model on transit projects has been scrutinized in the past few...
Infrastructure

City of Hamilton commissions Woodward wastewater plant upgrades
HAMILTON 鈥 The City of Hamilton, Ont. has officially inaugurated its Woodward Wa...
Infrastructure

Smoky Falls dam safety project on budget and ahead of schedule
Despite hurdles such as COVID-19, supply chain disruptions and the logistics of...
Infrastructure

Ontario tables legislation to reverse city and regional land boundary changes
TORONTO - Ontario Housing Minister Paul Calandra has tabled legislation that wil...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects

Nova Scotia opens key facility in its major health care overhaul for Halifax area
HALIFAX 鈥 A key component of Nova Scotia's massive health-care redevelopment pla...
Infrastructure

Residential Report: Offsite construction could propel housing sector into the realm of affordability
To build enough homes to restore affordability to the market we must find ways o...
Infrastructure

Your top DCN headlines: Nov. 13 to 17
Making headlines in the DCN newsroom this week is news a construction manager ha...
Associations , Government , Infrastructure , Projects
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A deep dive into the successes, challenges of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
The use of the P3 model on transit projects has been scrutinized in the past few...
Infrastructure

Building Trades, CECCO press NextStar to discuss precise skills need on Windsor battery plant
Directors with the provincial and national building trades say they are still wa...
Government , Infrastructure , Projects

Near-term Risk of Recession in Canada Remains High
Tighter-for-longer monetary policy The Organization for Economic Co-ope...
Economic

Birchley Park development a brownfield gem in Toronto鈥檚 鈥楺uarry Lands鈥
After sitting vacant and underutilized for approximately 70 years, a large prope...
Projects

Niagara Falls landmark to be transformed into $200 million boutique hotel
After a three-stage public procurement process, redevelopment plans are now lock...
Infrastructure , Labour

Ontario stakeholders scramble in reaction to Sudbury SCC decision
Construction stakeholders are calling for swift action from the Ontario governme...
Government , OH&S

STO poised for major advances in 2024: Young
There are major expectations for Skilled Trades Ontario to deliver the construct...
Labour

New housing, construction labour mobility highlighted by Freeland in Fall Statement
Federal Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland announced a modest set of new gove...