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CANADA WINS! CANADA WINS! CANADA WINS!
Wow, that was fun.
- Patrick Flannery, editor
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The Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA) condemns U.S. President Trump’s 25% tariffs that will further degrade housing affordability both in the United States and Canada, and urges the federal government to do what it can to help mitigate the impacts on an industry that is already struggling to build more housing supply and keep costs down for buyers.
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The government of Saskatchewan has moved energy efficiency requirements in new Part 9 buildings back to Tier 1 of the National Building Code. This level requires the dwelling to be as energy efficient as a reference model design.
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Housing availability and affordability is at a crisis point across Canada. Our members see the toll that the housing crisis is taking on their lives and communities every day. Workers need to be able to afford a home near their place of work, and communities need frontline workers to be able to live where they work.
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The International Building Show kicks off in Las Vegas next week and I've taken an extended scroll through the education schedule to pick out the sessions that might be of interest to you, the Canadian home renovator and custom homebuilder. I've stayed away from stuff that seems focused on multiunit or new development projects and topics that seem more appropriate for larger contractors. I've tried to avoid topics and descriptions that might contain a lot of content specific to the U.S. And I've avoided duplication of topics in the list below, though that means I've had to arbitrarily pick some ...
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I’ll be travelling to the International Building Show in Las Vegas next week but, for the first time ever going to an American trade show, the question in the headline will be lingering in the back of my mind.
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Karm Sumal of Daily Hive has this piece out blasting the province of B.C. and municipalities for raising the cost of housing by treating development fees as a “shadow taxation” system for funding infrastructure projects that have run into huge delays and cost overruns. He brings receipts, pointing to the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts in Northeast False Creek, the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Site C hydroelectric dam, plus numerous instances of housing projects delayed due to rising costs and approvals paralysis.
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A side effect of Net Zero building is increased demands on the home’s electrical system. The big change is heat pumps instead of fuel-burning furnaces. But the carbon-conscious homeowner may want an EV car charger as well. Then there’s the ultimate end-goal of the Net Zero initiative: integrating a power supply that can take the house entirely off the grid. John Watson and Rebecca Ross of Bluewater Energy do these projects for a living and are here to explain solar panel installation; codes and regulations needed for upgraded home electrical grids; home power storage; wiring and distribution upgrades and more.
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Vince is wondering how to vote in the upcoming Ontario election. He runs a fairly large southern Ontario custom homebuilder but takes on the occassional multi-unit project as well, so municipal approvals and land development are important to him. He’s frustrated with the slow processes, restrictive plans, lack of services, poor infrastructure and high development charges that put a drag on his business.
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Gil Yaron of Light House is spearheading the launch of the Building Materials Exchange on Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland, B.C., with plans to expand. It’s a website where members can post excess materials from inventory or jobsites and offer them for sale or free to whomever wants them. The important wrinkle is the business-to-business nature of the site, allowing contractors to deal with other contractors and not so much the general public. There are the obvious environmental benefits of reducing waste, but avoiding charges at the landfill and being able to find free or inexpensive materials is a pretty ...
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Canada, and especially Ontario, faces a housing crisis in which we are building less than half the new homes each year we are expected to need. But even so, housing starts dropped in Ontario in 2024. Radical action is clearly needed, and RESCON CEO Richard Lyall has some ideas. He joins The Hammer for some tough talk about the need for big cuts to development fees and taxes; new investment in infrastructure; harmonization of codes and standards; slashing of red tape in approvals process; the need to fight U.S. tariffs and more.
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Jared Kress of Metropolitan Floors and Chris Maskell of the National Floor Covering Association of Canada join The Hammer to set us straight on the impact insulation class (IIC) for flooring. This is the number that tells us how much a flooring product prevents sound transmission to the space below from footsteps. Some condo boards and architects are specifying crazy numbers for these ratings, but what you get in a lab is often not what you get in the field. Kress and Maskell take us through how the rating is calculated, what impacts the actual performance in your project and what you need to tell clients who think your floor can be made absolutely silent.
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North Vancouver
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Vancouver
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Vegreville, Alta.
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Brockville, Ont.
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