Innovation

This month, the City of Toronto and its partners in the innovation community began a partnership with WeWork by launching the Toronto Startup Passport, which offers Toronto-based entrepreneurs access to a network of WeWork sites to work and…

A Canadian hyperloop company is threatening to relocate its headquarters to Europe unless it secures political support at home for its technology that would transport goods and passengers through tubes at airplane speeds. "Unfortunately…

Algonquin College in Ottawa has opened a new centre for learning, innovation and entrepreneurship that features state-of-the-art collaborative environments with an emphasis on the sharing and embracing of Indigenous knowledge. The DARE…

Canada Council for the Arts’ prestigious prize enables local architectural and design firm to study notable public space making solutions in Tokyo, Rotterdam, Singapore, and Oslo

Deadline: September 30, 2015, noon

i-CANADA and its partners announced nominations are open for a new Canadian awards program called CiPA: the Community i-Performance Awards. The awards are aimed at urban and remote communities, both large and small, that have put in place…

Today, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that Canada ranks first on USGBC’s second annual ranking of the Top 10 Countries for LEED, the world’s most widely used and recognized green building rating system. The…

Citing opportunities for growth both geographically and within each firm’s respective market sectors, Vancouver-based CEI Architecture has announced it has merged with global firm HDR. “Together, we are poised to be a preeminent…

The United Nations Global Compact and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) issued a call to organizations in the land, construction and real estate sector, and those working with them, to take a leading role in global efforts to…

A national delegation of members and associates from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC), the voice of the $5.0 billion Canadian steel construction sector that employs over 40,000 Canadians, met with government ministers and…

Today, Construction Voyer broke ground on six condos as part of a national program that will see a minimum of 25 net zero energy (NZE) homes built across Canada. NZE homes produce as much energy as they consume, on an annual…