At the Canadian Association of Women in Construction (CAWIC) Annual Conference in Calgary, this year’s theme, ‘Tools for Transformation’, highlighted how meaningful industry change can begin with addressing everyday challenges…

A joint venture of Clark Builders and PCL Construction has broken ground on a C$13bn, 1GW data centre in Sturgeon County, Alberta, the company’s first in Canada. Meta also pledged…

Move comes amid hostile US policies and talk of Canada becoming “51st state”. Infrastructure Ontario has picked a team including AtkinsRéalis, GHD, Ernst & Young, Wood, Turner & Townsend, and…

Canada used to be the only G7 country without a dedicated pathway to a rail engineering degree, but with an explosion in rail transit mega projects now underway, that has…

Canada yesterday launched a US$9.4bn (CAN$13bn) plan to build what the government called “deeply affordable” housing at scale, using prefabricated modular methods and mass timber to build on federally owned…

A consortium led by Spain’s Acciona has won a contract to design and build the westward extension of Toronto’s Line 5 Eglinton. On behalf of Ontario transport body Metrolinx, the…

Canadian engineer AtkinsRéalis has extended its partnership with Canadian robotics manufacturer Kinova for three more years. The duo previously collaborated at the UK’s Sellafield nuclear site, where Kinova’s robotic arm…

The consortium building a 7.8km extension of Toronto’s Line 2 subway – Aecon and FCC Canada – have picked Spanish engineering and technology group Sener to develop its detailed design.…

AtkinsRéalis company Candu Energy has won a C$450m execution contract from Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to build the first of four planned small modular reactors (SMRs) at the Darlington Nuclear…

The Westinghouse Electric Company has signed an agreement in principle with the Pabineau and Eel River Bar First Nations in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick to build a…

Five companies have been awarded a design and engineering contract to prepare plans for a depository for spent nuclear fuel in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Deep Geological Repository (DGR) will…

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is looking for a construction partner to build a 320-acre artificial island and wharf for the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project, and will issue a…

The Canadian province of Ontario plans to switch on North America’s first small modular reactor (SMR) by 2030 after the provincial government last week gave the nod for construction to…

US chemical producer Dow has pressed pause on its plan to build the world’s first net-zero chemical plant in Canada, broadcaster CBC reports. It was planning to invest US$6.5bn on…

Canadian designer and engineer Stantec has announced its acquisition of Irish engineering and environmental consultancy Ryan Hanley, hoping to boost its presence in the Irish water sector. Stantec and Ryan…

As a brand new hydroelectric dam in remote Northeastern British Columbia, Canada gears up for full generation this autumn, locals are grappling with an unexpected problem: What to do with…

Ontario will ban US firms from bidding for public sector contracts, locking American contractors, engineers and consultants out of some US$139.7bn worth of infrastructure projects in the most populous Canadian province.

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imported into the US took effect today, with likely cost hikes for construction, and a warning of 100,000 US jobs…