Integrated Team Solutions (ITS) has won a contract to design, build, finance and maintain the new Waterloo Region Consolidated Courthouse.  As the preferred proponent, ITS is in the process of negotiating [...]

Plans for the second phase of Toronto Regent Park's revitalization are underway as residential builder and developer, the Daniels Corporation, was named exclusive developer and construction partner for [...]

The latest community to develop an innovative project with funding from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Green Municipal Fund (GMF) is Terrebonne, Quebec. The town will use a $350,000 GMF grant [...]

Sustainability has been a feel-good project for most of its public life. But as our worst case climate change scenarios keep getting worse, the eco-limelight is taking on a darker shade of green. Citiwire.net [...]

The Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) has finally launched its much-anticipated LEED for Homes rating system. The question is, will homeowners be as LEED-happy as condo developers? As part of its [...]

Everyone wants to go green, but nobody wants to pay for it. Owners talk about wanting to incorporate green features in their buildings, but when a construction budget needs to be slashed, green upgrades [...]

The new LEED Neighbourhood (ND) rating system that has been in pilot since 2007 was posted for comment yesterday. There have been many critics of the LEED rating system, but the US Green Building Council's [...]

The Beedie Group, a Burnaby-based developer, announced today that Coquitlam City Council unanimously approved the development of the Village at Fraser Mills, on November 3, 2008. The Village at Fraser [...]

Stantec has been named part of the Infusion Health consortia engaged to deliver the largest single investment on record in the health system for the Interior of British Columbia. The $432.5-million expansion [...]

Most community revitalization plans fail (often miserably). Most redevelopment projects don’t deliver anywhere near their revitalizing potential to the community, even though they might pay off nicely [...]