Development Charges in Alberta: The $57,000 Calgary Gap
$93,000 in Calgary. $36,000 in Edmonton. Same province. Same building code. Same labour market. Three hundred kilometres apart. And that figure is not the cost of building the house — it is the municipal fee for permission to build it. The gap is $57,000 per unit. Development charges in Alberta differ that sharply between its..
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Alberta Business Insolvencies Rose 35.6%. The Rest of Canada Went the Other Way.
Business insolvencies across Canada fell 9.7% over the twelve months to 30 June 2026. In Alberta, they rose. That divergence is the single most useful thing in the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy’s second-quarter release, and it is almost entirely absent from the coverage — because the national headline reads like a recovery, and..
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Alberta Fixed-Price Procurement: Who Carries Escalation Risk
Most of the debate about construction procurement in Canada is framed as a question of efficiency. It is more useful to frame it as a question of allocation. Every delivery model assigns escalation risk to someone. Fixed price does not eliminate that risk — it hands it to the party that signed the bid. That..
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Calgary Property Tax 2026: The City Raised 1.8%. The Province Raised 21%.
On a typical Calgary home assessed at $706,000, the municipal portion of the property tax bill went up $49 this year. The provincial portion went up $338. Same house. Same envelope. Two very different numbers. The Calgary property tax 2026 conversation has focused almost entirely on City Hall — on a November budget debate, on..
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CCDC 32 and the New Design-Build Suite: Three Clauses Owners Should Not Sign As-Is
In spring 2026 the Canadian Construction Documents Committee released four documents at once: revised versions of CCDC 14 and CCDC 15, and two entirely new forms — CCDC 32 for progressive design-build, and CCDC 33 for the consultant agreement that sits underneath it. It is the first change to the design-build suite since 2013. Thirteen..
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Alberta’s Indigenous Loan Guarantee Is 75% Unused. That Is Not a Funding Problem.
Alberta’s Indigenous loan guarantee programme has authorised up to $3 billion in capacity. Since 2019 it has issued just over $745 million across eight transactions, benefiting 43 First Nations and Métis groups. Roughly three quarters of the capacity has never been drawn. The obvious reading is that the programme is underused, and that someone should..
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Removed the One-Year Barrier for Foreign-Trained Engineers Alberta
If you are one of the foreign-trained engineers Alberta has been trying to attract for the past decade, something changed on July 18, 2026 — and almost nobody noticed. Until that date, an internationally trained engineer applying for a professional engineer licence in Alberta had to complete one full year of Canadian engineering experience before..
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Alberta Construction Cash Flow: What Q2 2026 Insolvency Data Shows
Alberta Construction Cash Flow: What the Q2 2026 Insolvency Data Actually Says Alberta is the fastest-growing economy in Canada. It also just posted a 35.6% year-over-year jump in business insolvencies. Both statements are true, and the gap between them is where the Alberta construction cash flow story lives. Nationally, business insolvencies were essentially flat last..
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Alberta Construction Costs 2026: Where Tariffs Actually Hit
Supplies up 20%. Project costs up 4%. Same year, same market. Someone is absorbing the difference — and on most projects, it isn’t the client. Alberta construction costs rose across the board in 2026, but the headline numbers hide the part that actually matters to anyone pricing work: the increase did not spread evenly. It..
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DFW Population Growth 2026: Where Permits Aren’t Following
DFW population growth reached a point in 2026 where two datasets stopped agreeing with each other. One says the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is absorbing residents faster than almost anywhere in the United States. The other says builders are pulling back from precisely the counties doing the absorbing. Both datasets are credible. Neither is wrong. The..
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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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