Development Charges by City: The Full Canadian Ranking
About $1,600 at one end. About $134,400 at the other. Those are municipal charges on a single high-rise unit, across the 23 municipalities the Canadian Home Builders’ Association benchmarked with Altus Group. Development charges by city is not a marginal line in a Canadian pro forma. It is frequently the largest single variable in it,..
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Calgary vs Edmonton Building Permits: The $128,000 Gap
The number nobody publishes The average Calgary building permit was worth $476,000 last year. In Edmonton, $348,000. Three hours up Highway 2. That figure is not published anywhere. It comes from dividing two numbers that are: total permit value, and permit count. Calgary recorded $7.4 billion across 15,559 permits in 2025. Edmonton recorded $4.9 billion..
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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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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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European Construction Is Growing Again. That’s Bad News for Alberta.
The European construction forecast 2026 points to something the market has waited two years for: growth. Investment across Europe is set to rise by 2.7% in real terms, after contracting 2.5% in 2024 and a further 2.1% in 2025. For European contractors, that’s relief. For developers and project managers building in Alberta, it’s a countdown..
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Canada Start-Up Visa 2026: What the Pause Really Costs
The Canada Start-Up Visa 2026 pause is the most important immigration decision almost no one is talking about. On December 31, 2025, Canada closed its flagship entrepreneur programme to new applicants. The replacement — a “targeted entrepreneur pilot” promised for 2026 — still has no criteria and no launch date. At the same time, the country..
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Alberta Construction Market 2026: Why Growth Is Shifting, Not Slowing
If you only read the residential headlines, you’d assume the Alberta construction market in 2026 is cooling off. The numbers behind those headlines tell a more useful story — one about direction and mix, not decline. Housing starts came in at 46,064 annualized in March 2026, down 5% year-over-year. Edmonton dropped 8% and Calgary 4%…
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Meta’s $13 Billion Data Centre in Alberta: What It Signals for Construction
Alberta just approved a $13 billion data centre. That’s not even the headline. The real number is 19.5 gigawatts. Last week Meta confirmed its first Canadian data centre in Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton. $13B+. Over 3,000 workers at peak construction. Big project. But one project. Here’s the part most people missed: Alberta’s grid operator..
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Alberta Construction Procurement Is Shifting — Here’s What Wins
Three procurement shifts are changing how Alberta projects get delivered — and most firms are structured for none of them. Most developers and contractors treat procurement reform as a threat. Something to survive, or wait out until the old system fixes itself. But here’s what’s actually happening on the ground: → Traditional lowest-bid, fixed-scope procurement..
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Alberta P3 Infrastructure Financing: What European Developers Need to Know
Alberta is deploying $8.3 billion in infrastructure over 3 years. The financing model just changed. Most developers haven’t noticed yet. The story changed. The conversation didn’t. Here’s what the June 23rd announcement actually shows: → Alberta is no longer betting on traditional public funding → They’re building a mixed financing structure — redistributing risk across..
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Eros belotti
Construction project manager with over 15 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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