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The 2nd Desert Architecture KSA Forum 2026 will bring government authorities and built environment professionals together in Riyadh on October 12–13 to explore climate-responsive, culturally grounded and future-ready architecture across Saudi Arabia.

The Africa Architecture Forum 2026 will bring architecture, construction and urban development leaders together in Rabat, Morocco, on November 4–5, 2026, to explore the ideas, technologies and partnerships shaping the future of Africa’s built environment.

Geo Week has announced its first keynote for 2027, focusing on an ambitious geospatial project using bathymetric lidar to map Utah’s Great Salt Lake and provide new insight into its changing lakebed, wetlands and deeper-water environments. The keynote, “A Lake in Crisis: Mapping Utah’s Great Salt Lake,” will take place during Geo Week, February 23–25, 2027, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) is reminding Ontario homeowners and businesses to verify that electrical work is performed by a Licensed Electrical Contractor following the arrest of the principal of a former licensed electrical contracting company. According to ESA, Peel Regional Police recently arrested Rahyl Hassan, principal of former Licensed Electrical Contractor Strak Holdings Inc., following a police investigation in which ESA cooperated.

You can check every compliance box, post every safety reminder, and still find safety glasses hanging from hard hats instead of protecting eyes. The truth is, compliance isn’t the same as commitment. Real safety happens when workers want to wear their PPE—not when they’re forced to. In this article, we explore the real reasons workers resist wearing safety eyewear and what it takes to change that.

PCL Construction has become the first Friendship Belt Patron of the Anishnabe Alliance, formalizing a relationship that grew from a housing and skills-training initiative in Maigen-Ajik, an Anishinabeg community in Quebec’s La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve.

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Construction is progressing on Bell Canada’s 300-megawatt Bell AI Fabric data centre campus in the Rural Municipality of Sherwood, Saskatchewan, with more than 500 people working on site and all four buildings in the project’s first phase taking shape. Bell Canada and the Government of Saskatchewan marked the construction milestone on October 1, reporting that structural steel is rising and preparations are beginning for the interior fit-out of the first building.

The Definition of Operational Excellence Has Changed When people talk about digital transformation, the conversation often begins with technology. It centers on cloud migration, artificial intelligence, automation, or the latest software capabilities entering the market. While those innovations are certainly reshaping the industries we serve, they are only part of a much larger story.