The Heartland Petrochemical Complex The first of its kind in Canada, the new Heartland Petrochemical Complex will be one of the world’s lowest greenhouse gas emitting polypropylene producing facilities in Strathcona County, Alberta. It’s a material used everyday, even if we may not all know it by name. A new manufacturing plant in [...]
Good news on the horizon for the 18,000 drivers who travers Highway 15 every day in Alberta connecting the cities of Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan. The vital service and trade corridor is expanding from one lane of traffic in each direction with increased lanes, a new parallel bridge and a pedestrian bridge. [...]
The Highway 91/17 Upgrade Project is a series of road and highway upgrades that are part of a larger upgrade project in Delta, BC. Jody Deane is the Executive Project Director, Highway 91/17 Upgrade Project for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. It’s her responsibility to ensure that Pacific Gateway Constructors General [...]
Reaching New Heights Canada’s newest aviation training facility is preparing students for a smooth take-off. The Mohawk College Centre for Aviation Technology (CAT) opened in Hamilton, Ontario on February 9, 2021. In previous years, students in the Aviation Technician – Maintenance, Aircraft Structure, and Avionics Maintenance programs were trained at four separate [...]
Resurrecting The Past The Faro Mine Remediation Project is one of the most complex abandoned mine cleanup projects in Canada. Opened in 1969, it was the largest open pit lead-zinc mine in the world, at one time. It was abandoned in 1998. The remediation project was established to prevent contamination of the [...]
Making it Last By Heather Romito For more than 50 years, the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine bridge-tunnel has been an important part of Montreal’s busy infrastructure. In that time, it has served the geography well but has seen some inevitable wear and tear. The Québec Ministry of Transportation is taking on the daunting task [...]
The Future of the Community Library By Heather Romito While the Dewey Decimal System may be online rather than in a card catalogue these days, one thing that hasn’t changed is the importance of libraries as a place for communities to come together. Recognizing this, the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) decided to [...]
A Creative Incubator in Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles By Heather Romito A joint effort between The Société d’habitation et de développement de Montréal (SHDM) and Montréal architect firm, Provencher_Roy, has resulted in the visually stunning and sustainable Îlot Balmoral Building. Located in the heart of Montreal’s Quartier des spectacles, the Balmoral represents [...]
By Dave Carpenter Calgary’s Historic City Hall is a National, Provincial and Municipal Heritage Resource. It has stood for 109 years, and after four years of meticulous work on the facility, Darrel Bell’s confident it will last for a hundred more. Bell, the Acting Director of Facility Management for the City of [...]
By Dave Carpenter You can imagine the satisfaction that the project team felt this past September upon the completion of Calgary's Crowchild Trail Upgrades project, one of North America's most innovative transportation construction projects deemed 'never been done before' in the media from the outset. The upgrades stemmed from a multiyear transportation [...]