It was a Tuesday morning at the Canadian Steel Conference, and most of the attendants of the panel were still holding paper cups of coffee from the hotel buffet. The session – titled CFS 12-storey b...
In the midst of rectangular buildings, low-rise apartments, and cookie-cutter commercial strips, the PS1200 development looks like an alien invasion in progress. The new Fort Worth, Texas project is a...
It’s late at night on a crisp, fall Wednesday, and a few tired parents trudge back to their minivans, their children bouncing around them in jerseys and long socks, soccer cleats hanging off their s...
Tim Verhey has a problem with Steel Design Magazine. “You write too much about exterior steel,” the Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering of the Walters Group jokes, shaking my h...
In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an island that locals affectionately call ‘The Rock.’ If you haven’t brushed up on your east-coast lingo – or seen the hit Broadway show, Come Fr...
Developers today seem to be caught more and more in between a rock and a hard place. It’s no longer enough to build buildings – whether residential towers, manufacturing plants, or everything in b...
In the winter of 2020, two similarly-sized condo projects were being built in Brampton, ON. By February 2021, one was wrapped in layers of scaffolding and tarps to protect working crews from the winte...
Which would you rather have: 55 city blocks, or an orchard that can grow 22 million apples? They both take up the same amount of space (121 hectares / 300 acres), but one increases urban sprawl, en...
On the shore of a northern Canadian lake, the need to respect the natural world hits home. For two families who have cottages here, sustainability matters. It was important to ensure that the build...
Nearly sixty years ago, the University of New Brunswick looked beyond its base in Fredericton and established a second campus in Saint John. For decades the Saint John site was modest. It developed a ...