Alberta Construction Market 2026: Edmonton Overtakes Calgary
Alberta Construction Market 2026: Why Edmonton Just Overtook Calgary The Alberta construction market entered 2026 with a shift that most planning assumptions have not yet caught up to. Edmonton overtook Calgary as Canada’s leading destination for interprovincial migration, recording 11,742 net arrivals in 2024/25 against Calgary’s 11,195. The margin is small. The implication is not…
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Alberta Construction Market: Why -5% Hides CA$13B
Alberta Construction Market: Why -5% Hides CA$13 Billion The Alberta construction market is sending two signals at the same time, and most people are only reading one of them. In March 2026, CMHC reported 46,064 annualized housing starts across the province — down 5% year over year. In July, Meta broke ground northeast of Edmonton..
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Alberta Population Growth: Canada Shrank, Alberta Didn’t
Immigration to Alberta fell 18.2% last quarter. Alberta’s population still grew. Statistics Canada, Q1 2026: Canada lost 55,025 people. Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia each shrank 0.2%. Alberta added 8,926 — up 0.2%, the strongest growth of any province, and the only one of Canada’s four largest to grow at all. Fifteenth consecutive quarter leading..
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Calgary Office Vacancy: Why 30.3% Won’t Fix Itself
Calgary’s office vacancy is falling. Not because tenants are coming back — because we’re deleting the buildings. Downtown vacancy sat at 30.3% in Q2 2026, down from 30.4%. Progress, technically. But absorption in the same quarter was negative 110,572 sq ft. Fewer tenants. Less occupied space. And the rate still went down. That only works..
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Why Canada Is Losing Entrepreneurs to the US (2026)
The US is using tariffs to trap companies inside America. Canada? It’s gift-wrapping its own founders and handing them right back. 🎁 Look at the timing. Canada is the only G7 country in recession. Business investment has dropped five quarters in a row. There’s a once-in-a-decade chance to poach the entrepreneurs Trump’s trade war is..
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Alberta Construction Labour Shortage: The 15,400 Gap
Yesterday everyone celebrated Meta’s $13B data centre in Alberta. Nobody asked who’s going to build it. That single project needs 3,000+ construction workers. Now zoom out. Alberta must recruit 59,000 construction workers by 2034 — mostly to replace 43,400 people retiring, 21% of the entire 2024 workforce. Even after all that hiring, the province is..
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Most people read Calgary’s 9% condo price drop as a weak market.
$300K condo. $750K detached. The family keeps choosing the $750K one. Here’s why that isn’t irrational. Most people read Calgary’s 9% condo price drop as a weak market. It’s not. It’s a product problem. Line up the three options a family is actually choosing between: → Apartment condo — benchmark ~$300K. But it’s a one..
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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 Feasibility Studies: The +15% Problem Most Developers Are Ignoring
Material costs up 15% in 2026. Most Alberta feasibility studies never saw it coming — because they only modeled one scenario. That’s not a data problem. It’s a methodology problem. Here’s what the numbers actually show: → CMHC projects national housing starts declining through 2028 — multi-family taking the hardest hit → Altus Group’s 2026..
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Alberta Construction 2026: What 4.8% Unemployment and a 39.7% Drop in Housing Starts Really Mean
Alberta construction unemployment: 4.8%. Housing starts: down 39.7%. Same market. Same month. Every developer and builder planning a 2026 project should sit with this: — Construction unemployment: 4.8% (May 2026) — crews are still fully absorbed — Investment in building construction: $3.7B, up 24.6% year over year — Housing starts (April 2026): 3,192 units —..
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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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