The Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) government has launched a program that offers a full rebate on the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax (HST)—10 per cent—on qualified rental housing projects up to a...
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The city of Calgary is taking steps to address the issue of empty downtown office spaces by offering incentives to building owners to convert them into residential developments.
Inflationary pressures have ballooned Fredericton’s costs of replacing all outdated infrastructure, also referred to as the infrastructure deficit, to $321.4 million.
The government of Yukon has drafted new rules that can be used to govern roads located on public land, opening access to resources across the territory.
The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) is urging the government of Saskatchewan to eliminate the provincial sales tax (PST) on municipal construction projects, as the association finds it unproductive and unjust.
The federal government has launched a call for applications for two new initiatives to advance building retrofit projects: the Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative (DRAI) and the Greener Neighbourhoods Pilot Program (GNPP).
Daniel Leclair has joined Stantec, a global sustainable design and engineering firm, as the senior principal to lead the company’s Canadian federal program from its Ottawa office, overseeing major federal programs and projects across...
The Ontario government is investing $3.5 million in province wide training initiatives to help more students launch rewarding careers in the skilled trades. These projects will be led by the Provincial Building and Construction...
A new federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) governance model has replaced the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes(CCBFC), the committee responsible for code development in Canada since 1991, introducing a harmonized set of codes to reduce...
Recommendations from Passive House Canada and other organizations have been published in the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan: Clean Air, Strong Economy.
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