As the Chaudière River receded from the downtown area of Sainte-Marie, Quebec, in 2019, it left the usual devastation after a flood – mud-smeared streets, basements drenched in dirty water, a park ...

Months after a slab of cement came crashing down 18 floors onto a Montreal restaurant killing 33-year-old Léa Guilbeault, the Quebec government is revamping the province's building code to prevent ...

Quebec's building code inadequately addresses the needs of the province's aging population, say civil engineers in the wake of a tragic fire at a seniors' residence in L'Isle-Verte. The Quebec code ...

Ten days after the Quebec government announced a technical guide on building mass timber buildings up to 12 storeys in height, an institute representing the precast prestressed concrete industry ...

Cement lobby says Quebec putting safety at risk to support wood industry OTTAWA—The Quebec Couillard government announced earlier this week that the province would allow lumber to be used to construct ...

MONTREAL – A fire that swept through a seniors’ residence in Quebec is raising questions about whether more stringent regulations are needed right across the country. Residence du Havre, which was ...

Should anyone be surprised that the cement industry is worried about the arrival of a competing material for building five-and six-storey buildings and that it fears losing market share to the wood ...

Above: There were no sprinklers in the section of the Quebec seniors’ complex that burnt to the ground on Thursday, something building inspectors and firefighters have for years been demanding at such ...