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…

Texan solar energy company Recurrent Energy has secured €1.3bn in finance for a programme of solar and battery schemes in Europe. The company, a subsidiary of Ontario-based Canadian Solar, signed…

The May episode of the 21CC podcast is out, featuring an in-depth interview with Andy Tyson, the man in charge of building Saudi Arabia’s from-scratch, high-end tourism region on its…

Canada consulting engineer Stantec has acquired UK rival Hydrock for an undisclosed sum. The deal will boost Stantec’s UK workforce by over 30% and increase its capacity in the building…

A former vice-president of SNC-Lavalin has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for fraud and forgery in connection with a contract to repair a bridge in Montreal some 20 years ago.

The New Brunswick, Canada’s oldest continuously open museum, is to be expanded according to a design by Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects. The 182-year-old institution is located on a waterfront…

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…