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Scott Van Voorhis writes regularly for ENR about risk management, insurance, and the Canadian engineering, construction and infrastructure sectors. He launched his own freelance writing business in 2008 after nearly two decades as a reporter and business columnist for the Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal and The Eagle-Tribune.
A provision in the newly passed NextGen Roadmap bill would enable individual cities, towns and suburbs to mandate tough, net-zero-energy building codes that could hurt construction and development at a time when the economy remains shaky, developers say.
Boston has become the first major city in the country that will incorporate Obama-era, federal anti-discrimination rules into the process of reviewing major new apartment and condo projects.
The Bradford Access Project, set to finish next spring in Provincetown, Mass., will create added entrance to historic site where access has been long restricted by geography.
Ontario and Quebec infrastructure work leads the country in activity, says Procore statistics, while Alberta and British Columbia recovery is slowed by changes in energy-sector economics.