Geotechnical Magic Stuff

Early in my career, I was startled to hear one of our best clients refer to our geotechnical work as “GMS” (Geotechnical Magical Stuff), implying our best advice was pulled out of a magician’s [...]

The word “Marketing” sounds like a big corporate word, with images of glistening towers of downtown Toronto, or the slick Coca-Cola ads you constantly see everywhere and anywhere. Marketing is [...]

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT Project is well underway, representing the largest transit infrastructure project taking place in Canada right now. With a planned 19 km of new transportation corridor, [...]

Environmental remediation has become more and more commonplace in urban developments in recent years. Numerous government jurisdictions offer incentives to develop brownfields within [...]

As municipalities look to slow urban sprawl, planners look to create high-density development through intensification in and around urban centres and near transit hubs.  In urban areas there are [...]

It struck me as I listened to our speakers and audience throughout the day, at the recent Geo2018 Conference, that there are a lot of really great professionals in the industry, in particular, [...]

Wait, did I just use the word “Extras” in the title?  Google the words “construction extras” and the results are all framed in a legal situation or case law summaries.  There must be a reason why [...]

As demand for new housing grows, developers look to optimize land use and maximize the number of units they can make available for each new development. Getting the most out of your site often [...]

When dealing with poor soil conditions on a development site, your first thought might be excavations, concrete, rebar, and lots of dump trucks.  This is largely how the industry has been run for [...]

SmartCentres is Canada’s largest developer and operator of unenclosed shopping centres, with over 250 locations across Canada. In 2014, SmartCentres acquired and developed a new property for a [...]