Construction

With a Rolodex full of new contacts and a slide show of photos, Sudbury mining engineer Jim Gallagher wants to open up the minds of the Canadian mining industry to new ideas.

A series of construction efforts at Laurentian University are just part of a slew of projects occurring within various institutions within the City of Greater Sudbury.

Callander-based Encondo Development Corporation found itself a finalist when Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) launched its country-wide competition for a home that would annually produce as much energy as it consumes.

Putting pieces of a home together like one would assemble a puzzle might initially seem like an unconventional way of building a house, but Nicole Neff is banking on the fact that people in the North Bay area are open to the idea.

A landmark biomedical research facility currently under construction in Thunder Bay recently took another step closer to becoming a reality. The future cardiac and cancer research facility on Monroe St. recently completed phase one of a $6.

Retail development in North Bay is catching up with its robust home building boom. The arrival of Home Depot two years ago has kick-started the arrival of new power shopping centres on McKeown Avenue and the Highway 11/17 bypass.

Two of Sudbury’s post-secondary institutions are expanding facilities to better the education of the students attending them. Construction of the new $3.

Ojibways of Pic River First Nation has announced the construction of a new environmentally friendly 23-megawatt power generating station on the White River, approximately 30 kilometres from Marathon.

Three bid teams are eligible to submit a proposal to build, finance and maintain Sault Ste. Marie’s new hospital.

The days of summer bring many things: heat, humidity, and for several of Northern Ontario’s major hospitals, construction. For instance, the Timmins and District Hospital is in the midst of a 10,000-square-foot expansion to its existing facility.