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May 12, 2008

Shane B. oversees work on St. Gabriel Village’s dome roof

Owner/developer/general contractor/project/construction manager Shane B. Inc. began work on the St. Gabriel Village condominium and townhouse project in August 2006. Completion is scheduled for December 2008.

May 9, 2008

Aecon Atlantic’s crews expand Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

Construction manager Aecon Atlantic Group began the two-storey Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre project in August 2007. Completion is scheduled for March 2009.

May 8, 2008

Toddglen Construction builds more Joy at condominium project

Designed by Atkins Architects Inc., the Joy condo building will feature a fitness room, pool, library and two-levels of underground parking.

May 8, 2008

Bahrain’s construction industry faces crisis

Prices of all building materials — including sand, cement, aggregates and steel — have gone up in Bahrain and there is an acute shortage in supply, said Samir Nass, Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry contractors’ committee chairman.

May 8, 2008

H & R Construction Management nears completion of Ukrainian Canadian Care Centre project

H & R Construction Management nears completion of Ukrainian Canadian Care Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario.

May 7, 2008

Workers ready rebar at Toddglen’s Avenue condo project

Construction manager Toddglen Avenue Ltd. began the 19-storey, 73-unit Avenue project in November 2006. Completion is scheduled for January 2009.

May 7, 2008

Vision Steel installs Garco’s biggest truss ever

The Garco Building Systems-built truss was installed by Vision Steel Contracting on April 28 at the new London Aviation Centre at the YVR South Terminal.

May 7, 2008

Crew pours superflat floor at McKay-Cocker’s Tepperman project

McKay-Cocker Construction Ltd. began the single-storey, design-build Tepperman project in July 2007. Completion is scheduled for June 2008.

May 6, 2008

Toddglen Chateau approaches completion of Mount Pleasant project

General contractor Toddglen Chateau Limited began the eight-storey, 97-unit Chateau Royal condominium project in January 2006.

May 6, 2008

Engineer looks at options for strengthening Parliament’s stone walls

Parliament has been shaken by many scandals over the past century without hurting the buildings, but a Winnipeg-based researcher says an earthquake’s rumble could seriously damage the historic walls. Rather than one heavy wall, most of the Parliament buildings have a double layer of two thinner walls with a gap between them, said Aftab Mufti, scientific director for the civil and engineering network ISIS Canada.

May 6, 2008

H & R Construction makes its way to the top at Royal York Grand condominiums

H & R Construction Management is general contractor on the 15-storey, 216-unit Royal York Grand condominium project. Occupancy is scheduled to begin in March 2009.

May 5, 2008

Daniels Corp. keeps crew busy building the Arc

Daniels Corporation is owner/developer of the 15-storey, 447-unit Arc development. Designed by Kirkor Architects and Planners, the project includes two levels of underground parking and ground-floor retail.

May 5, 2008

Carbon Sense Solutions trumpets ability to capture carbon during curing

The concrete industry has been actively looking for ways to reduce its carbon footprint. A Canadian company says that new technology available to concrete manufacturers can not only make some concrete operations carbon-neutral, but actually make them carbon-negative.

May 2, 2008

Vanbots Construction pushes ahead at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre site

Work continues on the M-Wing Shell/P&G Fit-Up at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

May 2, 2008

Residents still remember ‘lost’ towns

At 12:01 a.m. on April 28, 1938, four valley towns in western Massachusetts ceased to exist — their main streets and family farms soon to become the silty bottom of the massive Quabbin reservoir.

May 2, 2008

PCL brings in the masons at Cassie Campbell Community Centre

Stone work continues at the Cassie Campbell Community Centre in Brampton, Ontario.

May 1, 2008

Hayman Construction enters home stretch at London wastewater plant

London-based Hayman Construction Inc. is contractor on a $24.5-million project to build Ontario’s largest membrane bioreactor municipal wastewater treatment plant. Stantec provided the main engineering services to the project.

May 1, 2008

Greenpark makes concrete progress at Rosewood condominium project

Greenpark is the construction manager on the two-tower Rosewood project, which was designed by Burka Varacalli Architects Inc.

April 30, 2008

Steel bunker will encase leaking Chernobyl reactor

Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, work is underway on a colossal new shelter to cover the ruins and deadly radioactive contents of the exploded Soviet-era power plant.

April 30, 2008

Judge orders Prebilt Structures to pay $50,000 in fines

Prebilt Structures Ltd. had pleaded guilty to violating safety rules in connection with the death last year of Claud Adolphus Scully. Scully died as a result of injuries suffered in a fall on a construction site at the University of Prince Edward Island.

April 29, 2008

Remington Group’s Downtown Markham neighbourhood keeps rising

Construction continues at phase one of the Downtown Markham residential/retail development in Markham, Ontario. Owner/general contractor Remington Group Hi Rise Division began the work in May 2007.

April 29, 2008

Bondfield balances building tasks at School of Accountancy

General contractor Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd. has completion of the three-storey School of Accountancy project, which was designed by Robertson Simmons Architects Inc., scheduled for June 2008.

April 28, 2008

Grand Valley Construction Association announces winners of 2008 Building Excellence Awards

Redevelopment of the Hespeler Library, one of the few remaining Carnegie libraries in Canada, netted Melloul-Blamey Construction Inc. a top award in the Grand Valley Construction Association’s 2008 Building Excellence Awards.

April 28, 2008

Rebar fall won’t delay Pitt River bridge job

Workers building the new Pitt River Bridge are assessing the damage and developing a plan for repairing the structure after a rebar column toppled.

April 28, 2008

Grand Valley Construction Association’s 2008 Building Excellence Awards winners

A comprehensive list of winners of Grand Valley Construction Association’s 2008 Building Excellence Awards.

April 25, 2008

Management contract for Spadina subway extension in Toronto is worth $100 million

Spadina Link Project Managers Team, a joint venture of Hatch Mott MacDonald, Delcan and MMM Group, has been awarded a $100 million project management services contract for the Spadina Subway Extension. The $100 million contract spans seven years for the project which is expected to begin this year and end in 2015.

April 25, 2008

Art Gallery of Ontario Glass

Glass work continues at the expansion of The Art Gallery of Ontario on Dundas Street West in Toronto. Project manager EllisDon Corp. began the three-storey project in April 2005 and completion is expected late 2008.

April 25, 2008

Beijing ‘Bird's Nest’ awaits final touches

The 91,000-seat stadium may be the architectural jewel of the Beijing Olympics but for Franco Destefanis, it’s just another venue.

April 24, 2008

Contractors work in dead of night to complete make-over of Museum subway station

Re-cladding the track walls of the Toronto Transit Commission’s redesigned Museum subway station required tradesmen to work the graveyard shift. Jeviso Construction Corp. was the general contractor on the project.

April 24, 2008

Davies-Smith Development’s Rowe rises

Davies-Smith Development Partnership began the 12-storey, 131-unit project in July 2007; completion is scheduled for February 2009.

April 23, 2008

Vanbots dominates field at McMaster University’s Joyce stadium

Vanbots Construction Corp. plans to complete the $25-million Ronald V. Joyce Stadium in time for McMaster University’s opening football game, to be held May 10, 2008.

April 23, 2008

Times Group keeps moving at Majestic

Developer Times Group Corporation has completion of the two-tower Majestic Court condominium project scheduled for May 2009.

April 23, 2008

Firms put World Trade Center facade through its paces prior to construction

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is building 1 World Trade Center, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which designed it, said both mock-ups performed well. The curtain wall is being made by Benson Industries of Portland, Ore. The engineering firm Weidlinger Associates is the consultant in blast-resistant design.

April 22, 2008

Bondfield’s practice makes perfect at Richmond Hill Centre for Performing Arts

Bondfield Construction Ltd. is building the two-storey Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts facility.

April 22, 2008

Palazzo resort in Las Vegas claims title of world’s largest LEED building

With its recent certification by the US Green Building Council, the Palazzo resort in Las Vegas is the largest “green” building in the world — by a long shot, according to a recent report in online real estate site GlobeSt.com.

April 22, 2008

PCL Constructors keep order at Durham courthouse construction project

PCL Constructors Canada Inc. began the five-storey Durham Consolidated Courthouse project in May 2007. Completion of the design-build project is expected late in 2009.

April 21, 2008

Gliding over Twenty Gothic

Monarch Construction is owner/general contractor of the eight-storey, 175-unit Twenty Gothic in High Park project.

April 21, 2008

Bird takes flight at McMaster University’s Engineering Building

With the structure in place and the topping-off ceremony over, construction manager Bird Construction Co. is now overseeing the interior and exterior work at McMaster University’s $35-million Engineering Building.

April 18, 2008

Grounds crew puts finishing touches on Empire’s Continental Phase 1

E.I. Richmond Architects Ltd. designed the 21-storey, 511-unit Continental tower for owner/general contractor Empire Communities.

April 18, 2008

California fire victims plan to rebuild for the second time, but this time they’re going underground

It will take more than two destroyed homes to get Skip and Linda Miller off the mountaintop property where they’ve lived for 30 years.

April 18, 2008

Tridel shows off its form at Renaissance of Richmond Hill

Owner/developer Tridel Corp. and Deltera Inc. began the seven-storey, 104-unit Renaissance of Richmond Hill project in August 2007. Completion is scheduled for summer 2009.

April 17, 2008

Pouring on the Accolade

General contractor Residences at The Accolade Inc. began the 34-storey, 327-unit project in August 2007. Completion has been scheduled for June 2009.

April 17, 2008

Modular design speeds London Aviation Centre hangar project

Scott DesignBuild Ltd is building the new London Aviation Centre at YVR South Terminal for London Air Services. The hangar’s unique modular steel system comes from Garco Building Systems in Spokane, Washington.

April 17, 2008

Concrete support column topples at Pitt River Bridge project

A concrete support column for the Vancouver-area Pitt River Bridge toppled over in the early morning hours of April 14.

April 16, 2008

Menkes Developments makes progress at 25 York Street site

Menkes Developments Inc. began the 30-storey tower with a five-level podium in September 2006; completion has been scheduled for June 2009.

April 16, 2008

EllisDon builds Ontario’s first ‘lifestyle centre’ at the Shops at Don Mills

General contractor EllisDon Corp. began work on the Shops at Don Mills in September 2006. Completion is scheduled for October 2008.

April 16, 2008

Kiewit builds iron constitution into Pitt River Bridge

Ironworkers tie-in rebar on one of the concrete support columns that will help carry the load of the new eight-lane Pitt River Bridge just outside Vancouver.

April 16, 2008

Beijing plans to stop construction during Olympic Games

Beijing will implement a series of temporary measures to stop construction and close heavy industries, all aimed at cleaning the city’s notoriously polluted air when the Olympics begin in four months. All digging and pouring of concrete on construction sites will be suspended from July 20-Sept. 20, the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau said.

April 15, 2008

Toddglen St. Patrick readies 9T6 condominium for residents

Work is beginning to wind down at the 9T6 Condominium Residences on St. Patrick Street in Toronto.

April 15, 2008

H & R Construction Management makes progress at private Junior Academy

H & R Construction Management is overseeing the construction of the two-storey Junior Academy building. The facility will feature a 20,000-square-foot, full-size gymnasium below grade. Designed by Superkul Inc. Architect for owner Dibri Inc., the building is scheduled to be completed in July 2008.

April 14, 2008

Cooper Construction enjoys some sunny days at the Sunlife office

Designed by Ware Malcomb Toronto, the Sunlife Financial building is design/build project aimed at LEED certification.