Alberta Continuing Care Capital Cost: What $365,000 Per Space Tells Developers
Alberta has, for the first time in this cycle, put a public number on what it costs the province to add a continuing care bed. The Alberta continuing care capital cost implied by the April 2026 funding round is roughly $365,000 per space. Almost everyone in the sector read that announcement as health policy. 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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Alberta Housing Infrastructure: Why $510M in Pipes Matters More Than Permit Reform
Alberta housing infrastructure just received the clearest signal in years about where the province will actually be able to build. On July 29, 2026, Canada and Alberta signed a new infrastructure agreement worth up to $510 million in federal funding, with the province contributing as much as $428 million on top of it, over eight..
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Alberta Industrial Heartland: The $80B Construction Opportunity
Alberta’s Industrial Heartland, northeast of Edmonton, is one of the largest concentrations of industrial capital in North America. Around $50 billion is already invested there, about $30 billion more is under construction, and the region is expected to reach roughly $80 billion in total investment by the early 2030s. Most of the coverage frames this..
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Calgary Office Conversion: Why 13 of 21 Funded Projects Are Not Yet Delivered
Calgary’s downtown has been one of Canada’s most closely watched office markets for a decade. With a large share of its downtown office space vacant after the oil price collapse of 2014, the city launched the Downtown Office Conversion Program to turn obsolete office buildings into homes, hotels and other uses. Five years into a..
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Alberta Construction Is Rotating: Where Demand Is Moving in 2026
If you only track Alberta’s residential slowdown, you are watching the wrong market. Housing starts in the province are falling from their 2025 record, but construction demand has not disappeared. It is moving. Capital, crews and civil capacity are shifting from housing toward power, industrial and institutional work: hospitals and schools, energy infrastructure, data centres..
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Alberta P3 Infrastructure Financing: What European Developers Need to Know
Alberta is planning record levels of public infrastructure spending while looking for new ways to pay for it. Budget 2026 includes a $28.3 billion capital plan for 2026 to 2029. In January 2026, the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) urged the province to expand the use of P3s, and on June 23, 2026, Municipal..
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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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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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