Meta has earmarked $115 million for a workforce development program designed to fast-track the delivery of free skilled trades training and the attainment of industry credentials. Dubbed America’s Workforce Academy, the initiative will offer guaranteed job opportunities on data centre construction projects upon completion. The company referred to the program as the largest private-sector commitment to skilled-trades training with a job guarantee in the country’s history and will be available in Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas later this...

A Montreal-based consortium of Sid Lee Architecture, Rosefellow, and the Tsatas Group are offering several floors in a planned downtown tower for Nato’s Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, a proposal that it hopes will give Montreal the edge over other cities in the running for the project, including Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto. While Canada has been selected to host the multinational bank, which provides long-term, low-cost financing for defence projects of NATO members and its allies, the exact location has yet to be determined,...

Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) is advocating for a standardized safety training approach in the construction industry, noting that the current system where individual provinces and territories manage their own safety training programs is plagued by inefficiencies and fragmentation. During a recent meeting with labour ministers in Quebec City, Executive Director Sean Strickland emphasized that individual provincial management of safety programs leads to delays and increased costs, reminding ministers of the commitment they made last...

Amazon will invest another $10 billion to build a data centre campus in Montgomery County, Missouri, a project that not only includes the campus but also improvements to roads and water infrastructure in the region, including a new bridge over the Norfolk Southern Railway and a water system that Amazon plans to transfer to the local utility after construction. Once complete, the campus will support cloud computing infrastructure and generate hundreds of millions in property tax revenue for Montgomery County over a 25-year period. Amazon...

Part of the “Jobsite of the Future” initiative, Suffolk Construction plans to embed artificial intelligence (AI) into the construction process to improve on-site operations. Using an AI engineer, per a new company directive, construction sites countrywide will have a new layer of support to solve pain points in the building process. According to CEO John Fish, cost increases and continued labour woes require new solutions, which he hopes to overcome through the initiative. The AI engineers will sit in on project meetings where they can...