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May 17, 2013
Construction on pedestrian tunnel to Billy Bishop Airport continues to make progress
Seven six-foot drift tunnels are now complete as construction continues on the 800-foot pedestrian tunnel that will connect Toronto Island airport and the mainland.
May 6, 2013
Ottawa Convention Centre wins top award from CEO
Consulting Engineers of Ontario (CEO) has recognized outstanding contributions by the industry to the social, economic and environmental quality of life in Ontario in its 2013 awards.
April 30, 2013
Construction continues on York Harbour Club Condos in Toronto
Concrete trucks are lined up at the York Harbour Club Condominiums on Bastion Street in Toronto, Ont.
April 12, 2013
Tunnel bore work continues to Toronto Island
Seven six-foot diameter tunnels are currently being bored as construction moves forward on the 800-foot pedestrian tunnel linking Toronto Island with the mainland.
April 8, 2013
OCOT — timeline of a college in the making
“The Ontario College of Trades”, “OCOT”, “The College”, “The College of Trades”, since 2007, say any of those terms when speaking to a construction industry stakeholder and you were sure to touch a nerve, whether in passionate support or frustrated disdain of the concept.
March 13, 2013
Work on pedestrian tunnel to island airport continues to progress
Construction continues on the 800-foot pedestrian tunnel that will link the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport to mainland Toronto.
March 13, 2013
$57 million in heavy equipment sold at Ritchie Bros. Edmonton event
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers sold over $57 million worth of heavy equipment and trucks during an unreserved public auction on March 7 and 8 in Edmonton.
March 11, 2013
Construction crews take apart “Big Becky”
Just as crowds were cheering at the breakthrough ceremony of Ontario Power Generation’s Niagara Tunnel Project 18 months ago, engineers and crews at Western Mechanical Electrical Millwright Services Ltd. of Barrie, Ont. were arriving at the site, devising a plan to remove the cutter face of the project’s Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM). Known by construction crews as “Big Becky,” after the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generating station, the unit remains the largest hard rock TBM ever built.
February 25, 2013
Equipment escape hatches key for ice road workers
At least two workers involved in the construction and maintenance of ice roads in northern Ontario have died this winter after their equipment broke through the ice. Those deaths have prompted one Thunder Bay equipment supplier to incorporate a new standard feature in all of the winter-road grooming equipment he sells.
February 25, 2013
Peel Region to chronicle recycled aggregate use in roads
In what may be the first-of-its-kind imitative in the province, Peel Region intends to fully chronicle its use of recycled aggregates in road construction from concept to finish to post-completion review.
February 26, 2010
Get hip to Reclaimed Ashpalt Pavement, roadbuilders urged
Roadbuilders and owners need to sing from the same song sheet about RAP, attendees at the Ontario Hot Mix Producers Association’s annual seminar heard.
February 26, 2010
‘Nasty’ terrain just one of the challenges on Port Mann Highway 1 project
The Port Mann Highway 1 (PMH1) project has involved working on some of Vancourver’s Lower Mainland’s most “nasty” terrain, meeting stringent environmental guidelines, and avoiding stiff penalties of up to $800,000 per hour for being on site past daily deadlines, recounts Don Jacobsen, project manager for Peter Kiewit Sons.
February 26, 2010
Column: Green theme popping up again and again for road builders
Green Again was the theme of the 83rd Ontario Road Builders’ Association (ORBA) convention February 1-2 in Toronto.
February 26, 2010
Transparent noise barrier pilot program launched on QEW
Monolithic noise barriers have become a regular feature of Ontario highway construction.
February 26, 2010
Major revamp for Windsor-Detroit ‘hazmat’ ferry dock
Despite its four-month construction time frame — and November start date — by late January more than half the work had been completed at the Detroit-Windsor truck ferry dock in Windsor’s Ojibway Industrial Park.
February 26, 2010
Build better roads starting from bottom up
Apparently thicker is better — at least when it comes to paving roads — according to an MTO expert.
February 26, 2010
London, Ontario hopes roundabout will improve traffic flow and safety
In rail travel’s golden era, the round house was key to helping a locomotive reverse direction. That idea comes full circle in a unique structure intended to improve safety and ease road traffic flow over CN rail tracks in London, Ontario.
February 26, 2010
Canadian Construction Association, B.C. road builders join forces to push for regulation changes
The B.C. Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association and the Canadian Construction Association are challenging the federal government over the definition of an inter-provincial carrier.
February 26, 2010
Highway 406 a perpetual paving testing ground
When it comes to designing pavement and engineering road building specifications, there’s nothing like a real world test lab to prove out ideas — the highway itself.
February 26, 2010
Grade separation will release traffic knots in Windsor, Ontario
When it comes to traffic and railways, Windsor is just a little different from other Canadian cities. And when it comes to building a road underneath one of those train lines things are different again.
February 26, 2010
International Snowplow Championship packed them in
It’s a mid-winter competition that has attracted contestants from around the world to Canada this February. The Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
February 26, 2010
Nighttime is the right time for road works in Toronto
Decades ago, the idea of construction crews working on road building projects after dark was the exception, rather than the norm. Traffic be damned, construction work took precedence over commuters.
February 26, 2010
Brampton, Ontario road expansion project scores two goals in a single shot
The $32-million two-lane widening and reconstruction of a seven- kilometre section of Queen Street East in Brampton is the largest single road contract project ever undertaken by Peel Region and is also helping to improve public transit connections.
February 26, 2010
Ontario Ministry of Transportation getting concrete results from pre-cast tests
Typically, road crews have a limited range of options to repair concrete roads on busy highways. Conventional concrete takes time to set, impeding traffic. Repairs completed with hot mix asphalt and fast track concrete can get traffic moving quickly but sacrifice durability.
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