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Adaptive reuse to renew aging TO hotel building for a new purpose

September 28, 2022 arslan_ahmed

WZMH Architects have proposed retaining and altering the structure of an old 21-storey hotel building in downtown Toronto and convert it into a 230.85-m (757.4-ft), 71-storey residential tower.

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UNBC receives $132,000 grant for mass timber research

September 28, 2022 arslan_ahmed

University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)’s civil engineering assistant professor, Dr. Ramla Qureshi, and her team will be given a grant of $132,000 over a period of five years from the Discovery Grants (DG) program by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), to perform research on the resilience of wood-steel hybrid buildings.

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Canadian projects win North American copper awards

September 28, 2022 arslan_ahmed

Two of Canada’s architectural projects, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) Auditorium in Montreal and Havergal College Upper School in Toronto, are selected among the 11 winners in North America for their innovative use of copper.

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B.C. developer’s condo projects to employ sound-absorbent hybrid mass timber

September 28, 2022 arslan_ahmed

B.C. real estate developer, Adera Development, specializing in wood frame and mass timber construction, released plans for building two multi-storey residences using its proprietary cross-laminated timber (CLT) panel technology, which reduces sound transmission between walls and floors.

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Windsor recognizes rehabilitation of historical site with Built Heritage Award

September 28, 2022 arslan_ahmed

The City of Windsor awarded the historical Mackenzie Hall, recognizing a masonry rehabilitation project led by Goldsmith Borgal & Company Ltd. Architects (GBCA) and studio g+G inc. on the site to rectify the disrepair from the use of cementitious mortar in a 1980s renovation.

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PCL to offer design and engineering for Manitoba’s $400M solar glass facility

September 21, 2022 arslan_ahmed

PCL Constructors Inc. (PCL), one of Canada’s largest contracting organizations, has joined an international engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) consortium to provide detailed design and pre-construction engineering for a $400 million patterned solar glass manufacturing facility in Selkirk, Manitoba.

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Five TD Centre towers achieve WELL Gold status

September 21, 2022 arslan_ahmed

Five Toronto-Dominion (TD) Centre towers have achieved WELL Core Certification at Gold level with the sixth tower, currently under revitalization receiving WELL Precertification status, deeming TD Centre one of the largest real estate complexes in Canada to achieve the designation.

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Alberta’s prompt payment rules aim to fortify construction industry

September 20, 2022 arslan_ahmed

Formerly known as the Builder’s Lien Act, the Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act has gone into effect in Alberta, creating rules for the construction industry’s payment timelines and setting out a streamlined adjudication process for disputes related to payment or work performed, without the need for court involvement.

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Canadian entrepreneurs pitch an otherworldly resort experience

September 20, 2022 arslan_ahmed

Canadian architects Michael R. Henderson and Sandra G. Matthews, owners of Moon World Resorts Inc. (MWR), a Canadian-based architectural design and intellectual property licensor, have pitched a destination resort featuring a first-of-its-kind, spherical, moon-shaped hospitality venue, which promises guests a trip to the moon, without the need to venture into outer space.

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U.S. building now officially world’s tallest mass timber structure

September 20, 2022 arslan_ahmed

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has certified the 86.6-m (284-ft), 25-storey Ascent building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the tallest mass timber structure in the world in two categories—the tallest timber building overall, and the World’s Tallest Timber-Concrete Hybrid Building.

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