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As summer and the 2025 National Building Code update approaches, we are keeping an eye on wildfire resistance. It's going to be a big topic in many areas of this country.
- Patrick Flannery, editor
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An investment by the Department of Industry, Energy and Technology will help a St. Anthony, N.L.,-based construction company manufacture homes and utility buildings.
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Trademark Renovations has won a Consumer Choice Award for home renovation in southern Alberta.
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Occurring every May, the U.S. National Association of Home Builder’s National Home Remodeling Month recognizes the expertise of trained remodeling professionals and highlights the many benefits of hiring one to complete a home renovation project.
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Thanks to Robin Urquhart at RDH Building Science for providing this report from the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction into the Lytton wildfire. It’s chock-full of information into how fires spread and what makes structures more vulnerable or more resistant. Good stuff to know if you’re building in a fire-prone area.
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Believe it or not, there’s a serious argument to be made that access to a three-bedroom house could be considered a fundamental human right in Canada. The Missing Middle Initiative lays it all out here.
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Alex's injured employee is afraid to go back to work. What's the solution? Post your answer for a chance to win a 20V MAX GRABO Lifter from DEWALT.
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High-profile wildfires doing substantial property damage to urban areas in B.C. and Alberta have spurred NRCan to look at creating Canadian building standards for wildfire resistance. The consultation process has just begun, but it seems likely that some day soon we may see new codes requiring resistant windows, doors and other components in wildfire-prone areas. What might these rules look like? How do we determine if a product is sufficiently resistant to external fires? And what is the science behind making frames and glass that resists fire and prevents heat transfer to the home interior? Robin Urquhart has worked on ...
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The difficulty, expense and delay in getting projects approved has been identified as one of the big reasons Ontario is nowhere near its homebuilding goals and not likely to be any time soon. Enter Arash Shahi and his non-profit One Ontario initiative to offer a database of municipal zoning bylaws and regulations that shows where building can happen and whether your project qualifies. One Ontario has the data and the software tools – what it needs now is provincial backing to legitimize regional planning authorities using it. Shahi explains what One Ontario is, what information it can provide and how it could be part of the path forward to getting this province out of its homebuilding logjam.
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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.
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Brownvale, AB
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