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News and information from and for Ontario’s construction industry
The Link2Build group publishes news and information about the Ontario construction industry daily. Check here for the latest in trends, developments and insight from a wide variety of contributors, and visit regularly for updated information.
Toronto keeps crane crown
The city has 225 tower cranes in operation across the city—more than four times as many as second-place Los Angeles, RLB reports in its Crane Index for the third quarter of 2021.
Bird to lead design and construction of OPG Carlington Campus
The project will create a new corporate headquarters for OPG on a campus setting in Clarington. It builds on a promise by OPG to consolidate non-station staff by 2024.
Full speed ahead for high-frequency rail in the busy Canadian corridor?
The Liberals’ first step toward new train service could be a springboard for a train-centric sustainable post-pandemic transportation network.
L2B Webinar: Opioid Epidemic Hits Construction Hard
One in three opioid-related deaths among employed people in Ontario in 2020 was in the construction sector. With opioid use increasing yearly, and drugs thousands of times stronger than they were even 10 years ago, lives can be saved with the inclusion of free, easy-to-use naloxone nasal spray kits on jobsites.
Developers break ground on Kingston’s largest geothermal-heated building
The Geo falls in line with Kingston’s 2019 climate change emergency declaration. The project uses geothermal energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent.



