Canada has announced a plan to ease the country’s housing crisis by leasing public land to developers with a target of getting 3.9 million houses built by 2031, Prime Minister…

Heidelberg Materials North America has awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for a carbon-capture system at its cement plant in Edmonton, Canada to contractor Kiewit and MHI-LCSC, part of…

Toronto-listed contractor Aecon has joined Montreal’s Concordia University to research new low-carbon construction materials through a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU). They’ll research low-carbon concrete while exploring opportunities for pilot…

Canadian robotic construction firm nidus3D has completed North America’s first printed building higher than two storeys. The 420-sq-m concrete residential building near Toronto has 3.5 storeys with a steel-framed roof.…

Aecom has recruited an award-winning engineer from the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to be senior director of highway engineering in the Canadian province. Faisal Siddiqui spent 17…

A consortium of Montreal companies led by Pomerleau and Canam Group has won a US$542m contract to replace the fragile roof of the city’s Olympic Stadium. At present, the stadium…

The extension and renovation of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), designed by Canadian firm Hariri Pontarini Architects, has been announced. The OpenROM project will refurbish 86,000 sq ft of space…

Infrastructure Ontario and Trillium Health Partners have picked Canadian firm EllisDon for a US$958m contract to finance and build a hospital extension in Etobicoke, the suburb between the neighbouring cities…

Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have chosen a team led by Austrian contractor Strabag to design, build and finance a section of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto. The main…

Ontario will refurbish a nuclear power station near Toronto to extend its life by 30 years amid rapid growth in demand for electricity. Province-owned company Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will…

Contractor Pomerleau has started building a 14-storey mass timber and steel building at the University of Toronto. The 77m-high “Academic Wood Tower” near the intersection of Devonshire Place and Bloor…

Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have picked Italian contractor Webuild and Spain’s FCC to build a portion of the Ontario Line, a mass transit system under construction in Toronto. The two…

Japanese automotive company Honda is considering building a $13.8bn EV complex in Canada, reports Nikkei Asia. The project, which may include a battery factory and an assembly plant, would be…

The Canadian city of Calgary has approved plans to build a US$880m biofuel plant developed by Green Impact Partners. The company said the decision followed two years of technical and…

The government of the Canadian province of Ontario this month promised legislation that would ban employers from requiring Canadian work experience in job advertisements and application forms. The law is…

Dutch architect MVRDV and Canada’s Diamond Schmitt have designed a building for the University of Toronto’s Scarborough Campus. The project will give the Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health…

Canadian architect Provencher_Roy is toasting the completion of a pair of bridges it designed in Montreal made with concrete 10% comprised of ground, recycled glass. Calling it a world first,…

The province of British Columbia has shortlisted three consortia to design and build a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel on the southern outskirts of Vancouver. The US$3bn tunnel, first…