A multinational consortium has won a contract to build a US$5.1bn expansion of the Queen Elizabeth II infirmary in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canada’s PCL Constructors and B+H Architects are teaming…

Canada will need to invest more than US$210bn a year to meet its housebuilding targets, according to a report from policy thinktank, the Fraser Institute. The housing market is suffering…

The Canadian government is joining forces with the Ontario provincial government and the city of Toronto to fund a major housing scheme on Toronto’s waterfront. They’ll contribute a combined US$680m…

US house builders have welcomed Donald Trump’s 30-day pause on his plan to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but they urge more dialogue to make the…

Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, announced Saturday, will raise the cost of vital materials used in residential construction and fuel the housing affordability crisis,…

A joint venture led by Systra has won a US$79m technical services contract to prepare a tram system linking the Canadian capital Ottawa in the province of Ontario to the…

A US$1.3bn healthcare campus has broken ground on the shores of Hudson Bay in Canada. The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority redevelopment will provide remote and isolated communities in northern Ontario…

Municipal authority Metro Vancouver has picked a joint venture of Aecom and Jacobs to provide preliminary engineering services for the $7.05bn (C$9.9bn) upgrade of Vancouver’s Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.…

Aecom has won a contract to provide programme management for new water infrastructure in the Peel Region municipality west of Toronto as it prepares for a surge of new housing…

The construction of a US$5.2bn EV battery plant in Montreal could take up to a year-and-a-half longer than planned, Canadian broadcaster CBC reports. The factory was being developed on the…

Residents of the town of Jasper, Alberta are being allowed to return to their homes today to assess damage after out-of-control wildfires ripped through the town forcing an evacuation nearly…

Up to 50% of the buildings in the town of Jasper in the Canadian province of Alberta were destroyed this week as wildfires covering 36,000 hectares in Jasper National Park…

The Canadian province of British Columbia has chosen a team led by French contractor Bouygues to design and build a replacement to the George Massey Tunnel, which carries Vancouver’s main…

Turner Construction has won a US$44m (C$60m) job to build the Dog Guides National Training Centre in Oakville, Ontario, which will train puppies to be guide dogs. The 89,000-sq-ft building…

Work has been completed on the 2.5km-long deck of the Gordie Howe cable-stayed bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit. The bridge, which spans the Detroit river, is being built by…

Canadian construction company AtkinsRéalis has been appointed by Tennessee-based fusion power developer Type One Energy to work on the concept design of its pilot plant. Teams from the UK and…

Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named Rexy and Renny have completed their two-year stint digging two 6.3km paths for the extension of the Eglinton Crosstown rail line in Toronto. The 750…

UK architect WilkinsonEyre has won a competition to design the Keating Channel Pedestrian Bridge in Toronto. The anti-funicular steel arch will connect the central waterfront and Quayside neighbourhood with new…