Construction

Costs associated with building homes and apartments in Greater Sudbury are hurting the industry, city councillors were told June 21.

The value of building permits issued by the City of North Bay reached more than $47 million in the first five months of this year.

After a seasonal hiatus, construction of the Latchford Dam is set to start up again this June, and is on track to be completed by the end of the year. The $25.

Sault Ste. Marie Construction Association manager Adam Pinder describes the prompt payment issue in Ontario as a “huge, epidemic” problem with far-ranging impacts on the province’s economy.

Sudbury’s Interpaving has landed a $4.1-million provincial contract to replace a culvert at Jocko Creek on Highway 655, north of Timmins, starting this spring. The contract was one of four announced by the province on May 2, all worth a combined $11.

It may have arrived just in time for April Fools’ Day, but a funding announcement of close to $2.5 million for Timmins’ new industrial rail park was no joke.

Notorious for its crater-sized potholes and heavy traffic, Algonquin Boulevard in Timmins — which doubles as provincial Highway 101 — will finally get some relief this summer with the start of a $95.5-million reconstruction project.

A plan is finally in motion to build a long-overdue 25-kilometre access road to an isolated and neglected northwestern Ontario First Nation community straddling the Ontario-Manitoba border.

When Anne Headrick took on the role of housing supervisor for the Garden River First Nation in 2011, the community was operating with an outdated housing policy that wasn’t serving the best interests of its members.

It’ll be a great summer for Aecon Construction and Materials. The Toronto-based contractor landed a trio of provincial highway improvements valued at $34.5 million.