Building Envelope

May 20, 2013

Colleges conduct construction research in addition to teaching

Colleges in western Canada offer a great many courses where students can learn enough about the construction industry to enable them to go out and get a good job.

April 22, 2013

Resilient communities start with homes

The deeper one delves into the related concepts of resilience and sustainability of buildings and cities, the more apparent contradictions one finds.

April 10, 2013

$250 million Edmonton tower moves ahead

City of Edmonton councillors have approved a plan to designate a fire-damaged building as a historic resource, which will facilitate the construction of a new $250 million downtown office tower.

April 3, 2013

Canada to promote foreign trade zones

The Canadian government has committed to promote and reduce red tape for Canadian Foreign Trade Zones (FTZ) in this year's federal budget.

March 27, 2013

Bullitt Center boasts green tech

Some people are already calling it the world's greenest building, although that may be a bit of a stretch. What is certain is that the Bullitt Center, in Seattle, incorporates an impressive collection of green technologies that will set the building apart from other office buildings in town.

March 27, 2013

Falling debris deemed not to originate from Vancouver construction site

A construction site in Vancouver B.C. doesn't appear to be the source of debris that smashed an apartment window in the city's west end on March 20.

March 13, 2013

Near the Fraser River

Northbank is the new residential development in New Westminster, B.C. The project will include a 21-storey tower, two-storey townhouses at grade and commercial retail space.

March 11, 2013

WorkSafeBC issues penalty report

Construction firms accounted for the largest share of penalties handed out by WorkSafeBC in 2012 for workplace safety violations.

March 4, 2013

Concrete thermal mass rediscovered

Climate change is causing the use of thermal mass to be rediscovered in building design to reduce carbon emissions resulting from heating and cooling of buildings, said Andrew Vizer, Cement Association of Canada's marketing and technical affairs director based in Vancouver.

February 27, 2013

Worker dies in residential site explosion

Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) officers in Alberta are investigating the cause of a gas explosion that killed one worker and critically injured two others at a residential construction site in Fort Saskatchewan.

December 5, 2009

Industry experts weigh merits of green roofs

Vancouver can be an odd place. In recent months, the municipality dug up part of city hall’s lawn for a vegetable garden.