Taking place May 6 to 8 at the International Centre, StoneTech Canada Expo 2026 is set to deliver its most dynamic edition yet – bringing together the full spectrum of Canada’s stone industry under one roof.
Ontario’s housing market is flashing red.
In the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, sales have plunged. Starts are down 29 per cent year-over-year across Ontario’s metropolitan areas outside Toronto, and in Toronto itself are down 58 per cent.
Homebuilder customer- and field-facing teams operate at the front lines of the customer experience. They work independently across show homes, presentation centres and active communities – often alone, often meeting unfamiliar clients and often without immediate support nearby. As builders grow, so does the responsibility to protect these distributed, customer-facing professionals.
As renovation and retrofit projects continue to grow in Canada, builders are running into a familiar challenge as they try to add or relocate plumbing in spaces that were not originally designed to support it. In basements, slab-on-grade homes, older buildings or smaller urban spaces, traditional drainage systems can make it hard to change a layout, and often lead...
By Evan Andrade, CHBA Economist
One of CHBA’s objectives is to push for improved data collection and publication related to new home construction. With the high-level policy target of doubling housing starts over the next 10 years, much of the data needed to track progress towards this target is simply not available. For example, the number of new housing starts...
By Wayne Karl, Editor, Building Excellence
For Lacey Construction Ltd. in Fraser Valley, BC, building award-winning residences – often in remote areas – over the course of its almost 30 years in business, might be enough of a calling card to be proud of. But for this established custom homebuilder and renovator, such success is only part of its story.
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By Natasha Rombough, Director of Marketing and Communications, CHBA
For nearly 50 years, Grandeur Housing Ltd. has been focused on reimagining home construction. Based in Winkler, Man., Grandeur specializes in volumetric modular construction, producing a wide range of products, including single-family homes, multi-family residences and apartments, commercial buildings and specialty projects such as supportive housing and shelters for remote communities.
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