Building Permits Up 9.8%, Construction GDP Down 0.6%: Reading Canada’s Q4 2025 Data
At the end of 2025, two Canadian construction indicators moved in opposite directions. Building permit values jumped 9.8% in the fourth quarter, the strongest quarterly gain since 2021. In the same quarter, real construction GDP fell 0.6%, its first decline after six consecutive quarters of growth. Many headlines read the permit number as a boom..
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Building Permit Delays in Alberta: Why Incomplete Applications Cost Months
Waiting for a building permit is one of the most frustrating parts of any construction project. Owners blame the municipality, contractors blame the designers and everyone loses weeks. But a large share of permit delays have nothing to do with how fast the city works. They come from applications that are not complete when they..
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Construction Project Governance: Why Coordination Beats Funding in Alberta
Alberta has one of the largest construction pipelines in Canada. Industry estimates put the province’s inventory of major capital projects in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and construction employment in Alberta grew faster than in any other province in early 2026. Yet the biggest risk to that pipeline is not money, and it is..
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Alberta Continuing Care Construction: $400M for 1,100 New Spaces
On April 30, 2026, the Government of Alberta announced more than $400 million for 11 shovel-ready continuing care projects that will add over 1,100 net-new spaces. While much of the attention in Alberta’s construction market has focused on housing starts and condo inventory, continuing care has quietly become one of the most active and best-funded..
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Renovation Budget Overruns: Why They Happen at Rough-In
On signing day, every renovation looks on budget. The quote is clear, the schedule fits and everyone is optimistic. Then the project reaches rough-in, the stage when plumbing, electrical and mechanical services are installed inside open walls, and the numbers start to move. A fixture is relocated, a wall shifts a few centimetres, a vanity..
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Alberta’s Construction Pipeline Is Funded. Who Will Build It?
Alberta has one of the largest construction pipelines in Canada. ICBA’s Winter 2026 Construction Monitor estimates major projects at about $166 billion, with roughly $71 billion under construction, and other industry estimates of proposed and planned projects are higher still. The capital is largely committed. The crews are not. Most feasibility studies model land, costs,..
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Eros belotti
Construction project manager with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Canary Islands. Specialized in modular housing, container construction, real estate development and international project management. Founder of Reforma Vivienda Tenerife and Donkey Lab.
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