Construction Budget Overruns Start Before the Site: The Estimate Accuracy Problem
A construction budget does not break in the field. It breaks in the weeks before the field, when the estimate is prepared, the scope is written and the assumptions are locked. When the overrun appears on site, everyone points at the crew or the contractor. But the overrun was only reported on site. It was..
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Construction Feasibility Checklist: Are Your Numbers Built for Today’s Alberta Market?
The question is not whether Alberta is growing. It is whether your project’s numbers were built for the market that exists now, not the one from 18 months ago. Since 2024, construction costs have risen, tariffs have affected metals, interest rates have moved, population growth has slowed and absorption has changed by segment. A feasibility..
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Trade Coordination in Alberta Construction: Why It Is the Real Risk in 2026
Alberta’s construction industry is busy. ICBA reports about 248,400 people working in construction in the province and a major projects inventory of roughly $166 billion. BuildForce Canada’s latest outlook expects the workforce to keep growing, with record apprenticeship registrations and more women and newcomers entering the trades. Yet on many job sites the biggest risk..
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Alberta Construction 2026: ICI Growth vs Residential Moderation
Alberta’s construction market is not slowing down. It is rotating. After a residential boom that set a provincial record of 54,858 housing starts in 2025, new housing construction is moderating while industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) building is accelerating. For developers, contractors and investors, the key question in 2026 is no longer whether Alberta is..
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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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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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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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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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