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According to studies, 1.3 million tons of waste is generated annually throughout the Metro Vancouver region by construction, renovation and demolition activities. Last year, the City of Vancouver supported a pilot study in which two Vancouver homes were deconstructed, rather than demolished. It entailed the systematic disassembling of a building in order to maximize diversion of building materials. The result: 93% of the building materials were salvaged for reuse or recycling ... »»»
"Downtown vacancy rates are now returning to the record low levels we saw prior to the financial crisis in 2008-09," said Jon Bishop, vice president and managing principal of Devencore Company Limited. "With the tightness of supply, we expect that average asking rental rates, already among the highest in the country, will soon eclipse those achieved during the market peak of early 2008." ... »»»
In the robust Metro Vancouver suburban office market, proximity to rapid transit has become a key market driver. Office locations within 0.5 km of rapid transit stations have a vacancy rate almost one third of areas which are not served. Office landlords have the upper hand in the well-served locations and developers are looking to build more transit-oriented suburban office complexes says the inaugural Vancouver Rapid Transit Office Index, issued by Jones Lang LaSalle ... »»»
Urbanization is an unstoppable world megatrend. Over the past 60 years, the urbanized areas of the planet have gone from 29 percent in 1950, to half of the world’s population today, and by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in urban regions. Cities are already responsible for 70 to 80 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Accordingly, climate change cannot be addressed without their transformation through strategic alliances ... »»»
Aecon Group Inc. is part of a joint venture that has started working on a water supply tunnel, which can withstand the impact of a major earthquake in the Lower Mainland of B.C. The water supply tunnel will be built under the Fraser River, near the Port Mann Bridge. Completion is expected in the summer of 2014. According to Huber, the tunnel is designed to withstand the worst possible earthquake scenario ... »»»