Items Tagged with 'Canada'

The renovation of the home of Major League Baseball’s Toronto Blue Jays had a firm six months to finish, with no extra innings.

A beautiful but treacherous stretch of two-lane highway in the eastern forests of British Columbia has been smoothed out thanks to innovative solutions for building four bridges, nine viaducts and seven earthwalls on steep slopes.

This 47-story office tower’s design was shaped by extensive environmental analysis. The building, with its tapered top and bottom, is angled parallel to the direction of the site’s prevailing winds to optimize wind resistance.

Located in a remote and rural part of Canada’s most eastern province, this 600,000-sq-ft hospital takes an innovative approach to design, operational and environmental solutions.

It took serious coordination and a bit of quick thinking to turn a 95-year-old landmark Toronto hotel into a sustainability showcase while it was fully occupied, but the team on the Fairmont Royal York made it happen.

This $500-million expansion has more than doubled the facility’s rentable area, making it the largest convention center in western Canada—forecast to deliver an estimated $100 million in annual economic impact, according to the project team.

The Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant project will expand the plant to meet projected population growth as well as protect it against earthquakes and sea level rise.

One country stumbles differently than another, a recent study has found.

Brian Witte was just a freshman in high school when he launched his infrastructure career. “It was a small town in Iowa, and the teacher’s neighbor was the town engineer for a dozen communities,” recalls Witte, vice president of construction engineering for Parsons Corp. “They needed help.

North Dakotan Terry Williams is helping to manage the $3.2-billion Fargo-Moorhead Flood Diversion project, a first-of-its-kind endeavor.