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Talks of new soccer stadium in Vancouver tied to Whitecaps sale, team’s CEO says

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:10:02 +0000

VANCOUVER 鈥� Talks about building a soccer-specific stadium in Vancouver are intrinsically tied to keeping a Major League Soccer team in the city, says the club’s CEO and sporting director.聽鈥淲e are only working on one plan, one goal, and this is to keep the club in Vancouver and to find a very good setup […]

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Mattamy Homes’ Urban Design Studio wins gold at NAHB鈥檚 The Nationals

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:15:15 +0000

TORONTO 鈥� An Urban Design Studio by Mattamy Homes has been awarded the Gold Award for Best Design Centre at The Nationals, which is presented by the U.S.-based National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The awards program recognizes excellence in design, sales and marketing. Mattamy’s Urban Design Studio, which was envisioned with Figure3, provides homebuyers […]

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Students turn into urban designers for ninth annual 1UP conference

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:00:06 +0000

More than 100 Ontario high school students stepped away from their usual weekend activities recently to wrap their minds around how to design a novel square linking a two-tower purpose-built rental project to a dynamic new public transit hub in Toronto. Mentored by volunteer design professionals, the students aged 14 and up designed and built […]

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Intelligent City starts production on nine-storey Toronto mass timber project

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:10:00 +0000

TORONTO 鈥� A Vancouver-based company that specializes in the design, engineering and manufacturing of prefabricated mass timber building systems for mid- to highrise urban housing has started production on a nine-storey build in Toronto鈥檚 west-end neighbourhood. Set to rise at 230 Royal York Dr. the housing project, with key components from Intelligent City, will include […]

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Vancouver Aquatic Centre renewal gets the greenlight, with a shortened pool design

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

VANCOUVER 鈥� Commissioners with Vancouver鈥檚 park board recently approved a program to renew the Vancouver Aquatic Centre (VAC), which has reached the end of its functional lifespan.聽聽 The plan includes a 25-metre lap pool, leisure pool, large hot pool, dive towers and a variety of other aquatic and recreational amenities.聽This decision follows a report back […]

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Built Green Canada announces 2025 Maverick Award winners

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:10:49 +0000

TORONTO 鈥� Winners for the second annual Maverick Awards have been announced by Built Green Canada. There are three categories, Ambassadorship, Innovation and Transformation, which received entries from British Columbia through to Ontario, explains a release. The Ambassador Maverick award was given to Jim Zsiros at聽J. Zsiros Contracting Ltd聽in Courtenay, B.C., who was recognized for […]

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Superstructure in place for massive medicine production facility in Edmonton

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:05:49 +0000

Construction crews have erected the exterior superstructure of a massive Critical Medicines Production Centre (CMPC) on a seven-acre plot of land in the Edmonton Research Park that will position the city as a leading hub for life sciences in Canada. The building will be a cornerstone of the $200-million Canadian Critical Drug Initiative (CCDI), a […]

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Greater Victoria sees more than 500 affordable homes open

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:00:22 +0000

VICTORIA 鈥� People living in Greater Victoria now have more affordable housing options with 530 new rental homes open or opening soon in the community, the province reports. Approximately $62 million in grant funding was provided by the province through BC Housing for five projects intended for people with low to moderate incomes, including Indigenous […]

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Ontario to spend $35M to help rebuild Shaw Festival’s Royal George Theatre

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:00:16 +0000

TORONTO 鈥� Ontario will spend $35 million to help the Shaw Festival rebuild the Royal George Theatre. Tourism Minister Stan Cho says the funding will be used to build a larger, more modern theatre as the province looks to beef up the economy in Niagara-on-the-Lake and the surrounding region. The province says the theatre’s construction […]

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Siemens invests $150M for new technology centre in Oakville

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:20:29 +0000

OAKVILLE, ONT. 鈥� Through an $150 million investment Siemens intends to establish a Global AI Manufacturing Technologies Research and Development (R&D) Centre for Battery Production at its headquarters in Oakville. With a focus on developing AI manufacturing technologies that will support electric vehicle (EV) battery production, the investment will create up to 90 jobs across […]

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Qu茅bec developer navigates a 鈥榟igh wire act鈥� to meet Zero-Carbon Building certification

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:00:56 +0000

A real estate development taking shape in Qu茅bec City hopes to be the municipality鈥檚 first to achieve a Zero-Carbon Building (ZCB) design certification. The Laforest project is located at the crossroads of a commercial/hotel sector and a large residential area, just north of the bridges that span the St. Lawrence. Construction began in October 2024 […]

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EV-ready parking spots should be required in new apartment builds: report

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:00:39 +0000

TORONTO 鈥� New multi-unit buildings across Canada should be required to make their parking spots electric-vehicle ready as a possible way to spur EV uptake, a report released recently suggested.聽 As Canada sets out on major homebuilding plans, the federal government and most provinces have no regulations to ensure those apartments are EV ready, the […]

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