Building Envelope

April 25, 2012

PCL's new industrial headquarters taking shape

PCL has started construction on a new $10 million industrial headquarters in Nisku, Alberta, which is the location of its manufacturing operation that produces modules for oil and gas, mining and electricity generation projects in western Canada.

April 16, 2012

A look at urban farming in the sky

Ground was broken recently for a building that just might be the future of urban farming.

April 9, 2012

Calgary considers new bylaw after debris falls from completed buildings

The City of Calgary is considering creating a new bylaw or regulation for building maintenance to ensure existing structures are safe, after several recent incidents involving falling debris.

April 4, 2012

Foreman gets jail time for hitting flagger with truck

A construction foreman was sentenced in B.C. Provincial Court to seven days in jail for assault with a weapon, after hitting a traffic control person (TCP) with his truck on a New Westminster jobsite in 2010.

March 28, 2012

No one injured after pane of glass falls 11 storeys in Calgary

The owner of a highrise apartment in downtown Calgary has been ordered to inspect all of the windows in the building, after a pane of glass fell 11 storeys to the pavement.

March 26, 2012

Construction starts on university dairy research and teaching facility

With $10.5 million in milk money, the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) has broken ground on a new dairy barn and research facility, expected to be completed by December 2012.

March 7, 2012

United Nations headquarters to undergo $2 billion renovation

The whirr of saws and buzz of drills flood buildings better accustomed to the speeches of world leaders, as the United Nations' iconic headquarters in New York gets a makeover. Gone are the pneumatic tubes and the toxic asbestos.

March 5, 2012

Edmonton window delivery on 1st and Jasper

March 5, 2012

Massive potash storage facilities built in Saskatchewan

It's not often that a construction project is so gargantuan that you could conceivably see its progress from outer space.That may be the case with the two recently completed steel storage facilities built by Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. to store potash from its Rocanville mine.

February 20, 2012

Weighing the benefits of a sustainable concrete duplex

Many eyes will be on a two-storey, precast concrete duplex in Edmonton to see if the prototype can serve as a model for sustainable housing.

December 5, 2009

Industry experts weigh merits of green roofs

Vancouver can be an odd place. In recent months, the municipality dug up part of city hall’s lawn for a vegetable garden.