British Columbia’s 2010-11 budget contains no new major infrastructure spending, but lots of promises to capitalize on the momentum generated by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Finance Minister Colin [...]

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 [...]

Federal and provincial funding has come through for 15 projects in British Columbia. Prime Minister Harper said, “The infrastructure projects announced today under Canada’s Economic Action Plan [...]

The University of British Columbia (UBC) and Nexterra Systems Corp., a biomass gasification company, announced today that UBC will install and demonstrate an on-site biomass-fuelled combined heat and power [...]

Canadian bioenergy developer Nexterra is moving on to the next phase of a planned combined heat and power (CHP) system for its Product Development Centre in Kamloops. The company has completed performance [...]

Four of British Columbia’s public infrastructure projects won awards from the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP)—the announcement was made at this year’s CCPPP conference (more [...]

Calgary City Council has approved a comprehensive redevelopment plan for the city’s West End. The downtown area will undergo a major transformation over the next 25 years. The canvas of parking lots [...]

The University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design is starting research in the emerging field of life cycle assessment (LCA)—a concept discussed often in our magazine. Dr. Getachew Assefa [...]

Thanks to the upcoming Olympics, Whistler, B.C., has scored Canada’s first authentic passivhaus. ReNew Canada’s editor, Mira Shenker, toured some of these houses in the Netherlands and found out first-hand [...]

Dwindling supplies of sawmill residues are making it tough for bioenergy project developers looking to start-up a business – because they have no raw material. The dive in British Columbia's lumber [...]