Originally built in 1967, the Ken Soble Tower, an 18-story, 80,000-sq-ft-affordable housing facility for seniors in Hamilton, Ontario, provides a notable example of how aging buildings can be retrofitted to meet modern decarbonization goals.

Using lean principles and a modular kit-of-parts approach, the design-build team delivered Lakeridge Gardens, a 273,000-sq-ft long-term care facility, in just 13 months on a tight hospital-adjacent site while dealing with COVID-19 safety restrictions.

More than 25,000 union carpenters and other trades walked off jobsites across province in the largest wave of labor unrest since the late 1980s.

It’s been a rocky road for an unusual asphalt compactor design that once showed clear signs of outperforming traditional compactors.