Construction

A First Nations-owned transmission company is the Ontario government’s developer of choice to hook up remote communities in northwestern Ontario to the provincial power grid.

The new vision for North Bay’s already-picturesque waterfront revival remains a work in progress, but the skeletal work of new construction on its fringes is already well underway.

Three faculty members from Sudbury’s McEwen School of Architecture have been appointed to sit on a new task force created by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

A new social media platform geared toward the construction industry is generating buzz around the globe, and it all started after two men from North Bay were left stranded after experiencing truck trouble.

Eighty-two building permits valued at $22,099,945 were issued in June 2016 in the City of North Bay, bringing the city’s year-to-date total to $52.3 million.

The province has awarded $37 million in roadwork for northeastern Ontario in 2016. A list of the projects and their value follows: -$16.995 million for 2.7 kilometres of Highway 6 south of Nairn Centre and 21.

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.