Alberta Construction Adjudication: 50 Cases, a Staggering Gap
Alberta construction adjudication — the province’s statutory fast track for payment disputes — was used 50 times between April 2025 and March 2026. The United Kingdom, running a near-identical model, recorded 2,264 referrals in its last reported year. That gap opened in a year when Alberta was the only province in Canada where business insolvencies..
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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 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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Alberta Building Code 2025: What Part 10 Means for Retrofits
Maintenance is exempt. Replacement isn’t. That distinction sits inside the 2025 National Building Code, and it is the single most consequential provision the Alberta building code is likely to inherit once the province completes its review. If it is adopted as drafted, it will change how retrofit work in this province is scoped, priced and..
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Alberta Housing Accelerator Fund: 70,000 Homes Approved
The Alberta Housing Accelerator Fund story is usually told in two headlines — one for Calgary, one for Edmonton. That framing misses the point. In under two years, the federal Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) helped fast-track close to 30,000 residential building permits — roughly 70,000 homes — across Alberta’s largest cities, and the ripple reached..
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The Alberta Construction Market in 2026: Housing Is Down, But the Industry Is Booming
The Alberta construction market 2026 story that most headlines are telling is simple: things are slowing down. Housing starts are falling, buyers are cautious, and the residential engine that powered the province for years is cooling. That story is true — and it is also pointing you at the wrong market. Because while houses slow, another side..
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Alberta Construction Labour Shortage: 48,800 Workers Needed by 2035
Alberta’s construction market is sending two signals that look contradictory. Housing starts are down 5% year-over-year. Non-residential activity is forecast to climb through 2035. Both are true — and the Alberta construction labour shortage is what connects them. The forecast from BuildForce Canada is blunt: the province needs to add 48,800 construction workers by 2035, while 43,700..
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Alberta Housing Starts Fell 21% in 2026. Here’s Why That’s Not the Whole Story
The Alberta housing starts 2026 data tells two opposite stories at once. Starts fell 21% in the first half of the year — the sharpest drop of any province in Canada. At the same time, the province has 44,509 homes under construction, an all-time high. Both figures come from the same CMHC report. Here is..
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Canmore Real Estate Market: Why Capital Buys Where People Leave
The Canmore real estate market did something in 2025 that looks impossible on paper: it kept setting price records while the town lost residents. One hour east, Calgary gained people yet watched prices soften. Same province, opposite logic — and the gap explains where money is really moving in Alberta. Two Alberta markets, one hour apart Most..
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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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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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