British Columbia Premier John Horgan has announced the province will focus on mass timber construction to bolster the forest industry. Premier Horgan has appointed Ravi Kahlon, parliamentary secretary for forests, lands, natural resource operations,...
Tag: British Columbia
The B.C. Construction Association (BCCA) and Minerva B.C. has opened nominations for the 2nd annual Builders Code Champion Awards, which celebrate B.C. companies that are proactively addressing the issues of equity, discrimination, and harassment...
Vancouver Fire Hall No. 17 has become the first fire hall in the country to earn the Canada Green Building Council’s (CaGBC’s) Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) design certification, and the first project to be...
Passive House goes to work
(05/27/2020)
The benefits of high-performance buildings are being recognized by owners, designers, and policy-makers alike. This led to an uptake in Passive House (PH) design, as it is widely recognized as the most rigorous energy-based...
HDR is taking mass timber designs to new heights with the development of a new 82-suite, 12-storey structure for Ramada Hotel in Kelowna, B.C.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ontario is closing all non-essential services, but not construction.
B.C. city to not allow 12-storey tall wood buildings
(02/18/2020)
The Burnaby city council, B.C., has conveyed their reservations against allowing the construction of up to 12-storey tall wood buildings.
Climate change makes waterproofing vital
(02/06/2020)
Climate change poses challenges for building professionals tasked with the job of protecting structures from water damage. By becoming a part of the concrete, crystalline admixtures remove the need for a waterproofing membrane.
The reimagined and reconfigured Undergraduate Biosciences Complex at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver is now open.
Employing wood in commercial buildings
(01/09/2020)
The 2015 edition of the National Building Code of Canada (NBC) permits mixed-type occupancies on the first two storeys of wood buildings. Two facilities in British Columbia, both with primary retail occupancies, employ several...
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