ACHESON, Alta—North American Construction Group Ltd. is branching out. The Alberta contractor, which focuses mainly on mining and heavy construction jobs, particularly in the oilsands, has bought a minority stake in Nuna Logistics Ltd. The $42.5 million deal will give…
Once complete, the taller of Eau du Soleil’s two buildings will be the highest in the city outside downtown
LONDON, Ont.—A 31-year-old man was arrested Sept. 18 after climbing a crane at a construction site in downtown London. The incident occurred just a month after emergency crews apprehended yet another crane climber near Toronto’s waterfront. Police, fire and emergency medical…
COLUMBIA, S.C.—The torrential rains from Florence will test South Carolina’s infrastructure, which failed under historic flooding in 2015. The devastating 2015 floods contributed to 19 deaths and crippled parts of the capital city, Columbia, for months. The state’s infrastructure, weakened…
QUEBEC CITY—Work is underway on a new $245 million biotech complex in Quebec’s capital. Medicago, a vaccine maker, officially broke ground on the site in Quebec City’s Estimauville Innovation Area Sept. 18. The new 44,000 metres-square (approximately 475,000 sq. ft.)…
BERLIN—Volvo Construction Equipment has revealed its latest foray into the emerging market for electric construction equipment. The company showed off its LX2 compact electric wheel loader last week at the Volvo Group Innovation Summit in Berlin. Designed to lower noise…
NANAIMO, B.C.—ARC Asphalt Recycling Inc. has won a multimillion-dollar contract to pave a 23-kilometre stretch of B.C. Highway 19 on Vancouver Island. The $2.5 million project will resurface the road also known as the Inland Island Highway between Parksville and…
HYAS, Sask.—A rural politician in eastern Saskatchewan says he’s at a loss to explain why a newly built bridge collapsed just hours after opening. Reeve Duane Hicks said the Dyck Memorial Bridge in the Rural Municipality of Clayton looked good…
WINNIPEG—A $100 million federal contribution has paved the way for significant repairs to Winnipeg’s regional road network. Totaling $315.9 million, the project will see 49 segments of roadway rehabilitated across the city, including sidewalk repairs and drainage improvements. At $18…
MISSISSAUGA, Ont.—Chartwell Retirement Residences has teamed up with fellow senior community developer Welltower Inc. on a new residence in Toronto’s Guildwood neighbourhood. The construction project will extend up to five storeys and include 172 units, ranging from independent living apartments…
HAPPY VALLEY GOOSE BAY, N.L.—Hydroelectric dams like Muskrat Falls are particularly vulnerable to cost and schedule overruns, an expert testified Sept. 17 as a public inquiry into the Labrador hydro megaproject got underway. Oxford University economics professor Bent Flyvbjerg, who…
WHITEHORSE—A remote city on the Yukon River best known as a base camp during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush has secured $15.7 million to bring its wastewater system into the modern era. The federal and territorial government announced the…
WHISTLER, B.C.—Municipal Affairs Minister Selina Robinson says the federal and British Columbia governments are targeting rural communities for new infrastructure projects. She told delegates Sept. 12 at the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler that $229 million in…
CALGARY—City councillors voted Sept. 11 to keep the Calgary’s bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games alive, after a draft plan presented to council revealed the total cost of hosting the games would be approximately $5.23 billion. After…
The promised $5-billion investment in a second company headquarters would be a boon for the city’s builders
WINNIPEG—Canoeist David Danyluk doesn’t live far from Winnipeg’s Assiniboine River but he tends to spend more time paddling further afield. That’s because he doesn’t want to risk gliding through the sewage that regularly makes its way into Winnipeg’s river system.…
Already years into construction, the province and Graham have sparred over the project’s timeline and budget. Alberta claims to have terminated the deal with the contractor; Graham says it quit
TORONTO—Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario and the Crosslinx Transit Solutions consortium building Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown light rail project have resolved a dispute over the project’s timeline and budget. The three parties involved in construction of the new $5.3 billion LRT agreed last…
ST. JOHN’S—And then there was one. Leaving just Saskatchewan on the outside looking in, Ottawa announced a new long-term infrastructure deal with Newfoundland and Labrador Sept. 10. The $555 million agreement is the 12th inked under the Investing in Canada…
PORT ALBERNI, B.C.—A Vancouver Island city of approximately 18,000 has awarded the main construction contract that will kick-start work on significant upgrades to its wastewater treatment plant. Port Alberni, B.C. said last week it will pay Tritech Group $17.1 million…
