Alberta’s 2026 Capital Plan: Execution Is the Real Competitive Advantage
Alberta’s Budget 2026 includes a $28.3 billion capital plan for 2026 to 2029, $2.2 billion more than the previous budget. It allocates $4.9 billion to health care capacity, $3.3 billion to schools, $2.7 billion to provincial highways and bridges, $7.1 billion to municipal infrastructure and $4.2 billion to maintenance and renewal of existing assets. For..
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Construction Project Managers in Alberta: The Execution Gap Behind Open Jobs
Job boards in Alberta regularly list hundreds of openings for construction project managers, site superintendents and project coordinators. Federal labour market data rate prospects for construction managers in Alberta as good for 2025 to 2027, with about 22,400 people working in the occupation and new openings coming from both employment growth and retirements. That is..
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Alberta’s Construction Pipeline: Are You Positioned to Capture It?
Alberta’s construction pipeline is large by any measure. ICBA’s Winter 2026 Construction Monitor estimates the value of major projects in the province at about $166 billion, with roughly $71 billion under construction. Industry estimates of capital projects across all stages run even higher. The province is pursuing a $100 billion data centre target, energy and..
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Feasibility Studies in Alberta: Why One Cost Scenario Is Not Enough
Most feasibility studies I review for Alberta projects share a hidden weakness: they are built on a single cost assumption. One construction budget, one sales price, one absorption rate, one outcome. When costs move, and in 2026 they do, that single scenario stops being a plan and becomes a liability. This article explains why single-scenario..
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Alberta Construction 2026: Starts Fall, Crews Stay Busy. What It Means
Alberta’s construction data in spring 2026 looked contradictory at first glance. Housing starts were falling sharply: ATB Financial reported that April starts ran at an annual pace of 38,539 units, the lowest in two years, with year-to-date starts down 23% from 2025. Yet construction employment in the province was growing, crews remained busy and large..
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Alberta Real Estate 2026: Why Product Mix Beats Market Volume
Imagine two developers in the same month of 2026, one in Toronto and one in Calgary. Both see the same national slowdown signal. Their risk profiles could not be more different. In Ontario and British Columbia, presales have stalled, high-rise projects are on hold and developer margins are under heavy pressure. Alberta is having a..
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Large-Scale Project Management in Alberta: Systems Built for Multi-Phase Delivery
Alberta is no longer just building houses one lot at a time. Multi-phase master-planned communities, large purpose-built rental portfolios, institutional projects and data centres are reshaping the province’s construction pipeline. In December 2024 the provincial government set a target of attracting $100 billion in data centre investment within five years, and large technology projects have..
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Canada’s Housing Execution Gap: Why Job Sites Slow Down Delivery
Canada needs far more homes than it is building. In June 2025, CMHC estimated that the country would need up to 4.8 million additional homes over the next decade, roughly 430,000 to 480,000 starts a year, to restore affordability to pre-pandemic levels. In 2025 Canada started 259,028 homes, and CMHC’s 2026 outlook expects starts to..
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Alberta Housing Starts 2026: What the CMHC Forecast Really Means for Developers
In May 2026, CMHC reported that housing starts in Canada jumped 17% in April, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 279,317 units. Two months later, its mid-year Housing Market Outlook forecast that new construction will keep declining until at least 2028. Both numbers are real. They simply measure different things, and developers in Alberta..
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Real Estate Feasibility in Alberta: Where Projects Lose Money Before Construction
Most real estate developers in Alberta are not losing money on site. They are losing it 12 to 18 months earlier, during feasibility, and do not know it yet. By the time construction starts, the decisions that determine the project’s margin have already been made: the product, the unit mix, the price assumptions, the schedule..
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Eros Belotti 01.
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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