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June 14, 2013
Design team wins award for work on Evergreen Brick Works
A design team that included Halsall Associates was honoured for its work at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto with a 2013 Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) Charter Award. The awards are regarded as the urban design industry’s preeminent global awards for excellence.
June 13, 2013
Plans for CFB Rockcliffe facelift to be finalized
The Canada Lands Company (CLC) is spearheading redevelopment of the former Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Rockcliffe, a 310-acre site located just a few kilometres from Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
June 10, 2013
Queens Quay Scoop
A dump truck empties gravel on Queens Quay near Spadina Avenue as road reconstruction continues along the quay on Toronto’s waterfront under the management of Eastern Construction for Waterfront Toronto.
May 28, 2013
Canada home to 1,000 LEED certified projects
One thousand Canadian building projects have now been LEED certified, representing the second largest number of certified buildings in the world after the United States.
May 10, 2013
Alleged fake consulting company busted for U.S. stimulus funds fraud
A Chippewa Cree tribal leader, a former state lawmaker and three others used a fake billing system and a shell company to pocket hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus aid meant for the Montana tribe, federal prosecutors said May 7.
May 8, 2013
Contacting Toronto: Under this Ground explores city’s waterways
Sewers and waterways will be in the spotlight throughout May as a new public art installation captures these usually unseen spaces below the streets of Toronto.
May 6, 2013
Ottawa Convention Centre wins top award from CEO
Consulting Engineers of Ontario (CEO) has recognized outstanding contributions by the industry to the social, economic and environmental quality of life in Ontario in its 2013 awards.
May 1, 2013
Ambitious water supply project for North Glengarry
The township of North Glengarry in eastern Ontario is spearheading an ambitious regional water supply project that will transport treated drinking water from the city of Cornwall to the villages of Maxville and Alexandria.
April 24, 2013
Tearin’ Up the Roads
Toronto’s 2013 road work season has begun, and general contractor Sanscon Construction Ltd. is leading it with work on Kingston Road in the City of Toronto.
April 17, 2013
Underground explosion injures workers
An underground explosion near 14th Avenue and York-Durham Townline sent four workers to the hospital on April 10. At the time of the explosion, several men were boring through the ground about 40 metres below the surface as part of the York/Durham waste pipeline project.
June 24, 2011
Aqua-Pure Ventures of Calgary honoured for work in fracturing shale deposits for natural gas
Calgary-based Aqua-Pure Ventures Inc. has been chosen by The Artemis Project as a 2011 Top 50 Water Companies Competition winner, for its work in recycling water used to hydraulically fracture shale deposits to release natural gas in the North Texas Barnett Shale. Aqua-Pure supplies Nomad 2000 units to distill the water using mechanical vapour recompression (MVR), separating contaminants from the effluent.
June 24, 2011
Procurement alliances will be key to securing water work, C.D. Howe Institute report finds
Contractors who want to be part of addressing Canada’s massive sewer and water infrastructure deficit need to align themselves with consortiums capable of delivering design-build-finance-operate (DBFO) contracts and to become active in promoting policies that will see such contracts become commonplace, says Elizabeth Brubaker, executive director of Environment Probe. Brubaker wrote a report titled A Bridge Over Troubled Waters for the C.D. Howe Institute.
June 24, 2011
Bennett Contracting works on reservoir, pumping station expansion in Mississauga, Ontario
The 40-year-old Streetsville Reservoir and Pumping Station in Mississauga, Ontario is receiving a major overhaul. Millgrove, Ontario-based Bennett Contracting is the general contractor in charge of the $16 million first phase.
June 24, 2011
Mueller Water Products’ Echologics unit detects leaks in water pipes
A Canadian company has developed a leak-detection and water pipe-condition assessment technology that’s making its mark across North America.
June 24, 2011
Aquatech Dewatering drains tailrace section of dam on Abitibi River in Ontario
Ontario Power Generation hired Barclay Construction Group to remediate concrete at the Abitibi Canyon Generating Station near Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario. Barclay in turn hired Aquatech Dewatering Co. of Concord, Ontario to drain the tailrace section.
June 24, 2011
Newfoundland agency in talks with NATO on use of water quality monitoring technology
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is currently in talks with the Water Resources Management Division (WRMD) of Newfoundland and Labrador to use its water monitoring technology to monitor the Dead Sea and the Jordan River in the Middle East. WRMD transmits data from sensors, which measure factors including temperature, pH level, turbidity, specific conductance and dissolved oxygen, via satellite.
June 24, 2011
Veolia Canada provides consulting for wastewater plants in Winnipeg
Under a 30-year consulting contract, Veolia Canada will provide advice and expertise regarding the operation and maintenance of Winnipeg water pollution control centres. A new biosolids plant will be used to convert treated sewage into either compost or agricultural fertilizer and may also be converted to pellets that can be burned to generate electricity.
June 24, 2011
Xogen technology aims to eliminate biosolids in wastewater treatment in Orangeville, Ontario
After first introducing its innovative wastewater treatment concept to the Town of Orangeville, Ontario in 2009, Xogen and its pilot project are up and running and treating 1,800 litres of wastewater per hour. Xogen is an electrolytic process that not only aims to eliminate biosolids, but also requires a much smaller facilities footprint than conventional treatment approaches.
June 24, 2011
Genivar engineer compiles history of Thunder Bay, Ontario water supply tunnel
Larry Betuzzi, structural engineer with Genivar, did extensive research on the Loch Lomond Water Supply System, originally started by the city of Fort William in 1906 and decommissioned by its successor City of Thunder Bay, Ontario in 2007.
June 24, 2011
Peat filter system treats sewage at Milton, Ontario community centre
The Campbellville Community Centre & Nassagaweya Tennis Courts Redevelopment in Milton, Ontario does not have access to a sewer, so Slagter Construction was contracted to install an EcoFlo Peat Filter System. The community centre itself was designed by +VG Architects and built by general contractor DeFaveri Construction.
June 24, 2011
How the Lakeview Water Treatment Plant in Mississauga, Ontario will save space
A new 41,519-square-foot, 400 mega litres-per-day Lakeview Water Treatment plant is now under construction in Mississauga, Ontario. Kenaidan Contracting is the general contractor and CH2M Hill is the consultant on the project, which will use a combination of ozonation, ultrafiltration (UF) and ultraviolet (UV) technology.
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