At this week's Urban Transportation Summit, Translink's Ian Jarvis talked about the City's Olympic achievments in the transportation realm. The Games have certainly done a lot for transit in Vancouver [...]
Posted on 03 March 2010
At this week's Urban Transportation Summit, Translink's Ian Jarvis talked about the City's Olympic achievments in the transportation realm. The Games have certainly done a lot for transit in Vancouver [...]
Posted on 02 March 2010
Saskatchewan is accelerating $56.9 million in infrastructure funding to municipalities as a lead-in to the 2010 construction season, part of $100 million that Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Municipal Affairs [...]
Posted on 14 January 2010
New Brunswick’s 2010-2011 budget includes $439.3 million for transportation infrastructure. Transportation Minister Denis Landry announced the capital budget yesterday in the legislative assembly. Landry [...]
Posted on 14 December 2009
While there have been a lot of questions about why federal stimulus funding isn't "rolling out" fast enough, almost nobody has examined whether or not it's rolling too quickly. Federal Finance Minister [...]
Posted on 30 October 2009
To get itself out of debt, NB Power is selling most of its assets to Hydro-Quebec for about $4.75 billion. That includes number 12 on last year’s Top 100 projects list, the Point Lepreau nuclear power [...]
Posted on 30 October 2009
The Alberta Research Council (ARC) has patented a technology for creating construction panels out of wheat straw that will now be used in China. Oriented Split Straw Board (OSSB), similar in thickness [...]
Posted on 20 May 2009
This week's National Engineering Summit in Montreal was a chance for professionals in the industry to touch base, network and talk about how to get a piece of the thousands of infrastructure projects planned [...]
Posted on 14 May 2009
Our number one project on this year's Top 100 list, the Romaine Hydroelectric Complex is officially under construction. Québec Premier Jean Charest made the announcement yesterday accompanied by Minister [...]
Posted on 29 April 2009
Municipalities across Canada continue to come up with lists and plans to make use of federal stimulus funding—but some are finding it hard to get important infrastructure built or repaired under tight [...]
Posted on 28 April 2009
The first payment of $33.5 million in 2009 federal gas tax funding will be delivered to Manitoba municipalities almost three months earlier this year. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Steve Ashton [...]