New skills training centre coming to Vaughan

New skills training centre coming to Vaughan

The Ontario government is investing more than $26 million to build a new training centre at LiUNA 183’s skilled trades training campus in Vaughan, Ontario. The union will be able to train nearly 50,000 additional workers, doubling their current training capacity to almost 100,000 workers, for in-demand careers in construction across the Greater Toronto Area…

Canada’s first tsunami evacuation tower built in B.C.

Canada’s first tsunami evacuation tower built in B.C.

A new school in Masset, B.C. includes Canada’s first-ever tsunami evacuation tower. The Government of British Columbia provided more than $16 million for seismic upgrades and a tsunami evacuation tower at Daaxiigan Sk’adáa Née Secondary school. The Haida Gwaii Board of Education provided $250,000. The school is now home to Daaxiigan Sk’adáa Née Secondary school and Tahaygen…

Fire safety experts warn of B.C. building code change

Fire safety experts warn of B.C. building code change

The Fire Chiefs Association of B.C. and the B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Association have released a joint statement warning of a dangerous amendment the province of British Columbia recently made to its building code that allows for a single exit stairway (SES) in multi-residential buildings. Permitting residential multi-unit dwellings to reduce their minimum egress stairways…

How space supports programming changes at university libraries

How space supports programming changes at university libraries

The way students learn has changed. As a result, academic libraries are grappling with an identity crisis. No longer seen as merely archives for print materials or a place for silent, solitary work, leading academic libraries are alive with activity and support hands-on learning and information creation. Digitization has made many resources easily accessible and…

Palomar Health Breaks Ground on Behavioral Health Institute

Palomar Health Breaks Ground on Behavioral Health Institute

The two-story facility will have 120 beds and provide 84,700 square feet of indoor and outdoor recovery space. Palomar Health is breaking ground on Palomar Health Behavioral Health Institute, a new, state-of-the-art behavioral health facility being developed through a joint venture partnership with Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a business unit of Lifepoint Health. This vital facility,…

UNC Health Rex Files Plans for New Wake Forest Hospital

UNC Health Rex Files Plans for New Wake Forest Hospital

The plans will have to be approved by North Carolina’s CON office. UNC Health Rex has filed plans with state regulators to build a new community hospital in Wake Forest, a project that will increase access and improve care in a fast-growing region of the state. UNC Health Rex recently filed two Certificate of Need…