Alberta Capital Plan: $28.3B Scheduled, 3 Nomination Spots Left for Construction Talent
Alberta’s Budget 2026 capital plan schedules $28.3B over three years, but the AAIP priority-sector stream had only 3 of 619 spots left by October 7. What the gap means for contractors planning 2027 crews.
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Construction Immigration Draws 2026: BC Invited 791, Alberta 53 in One Draw
British Columbia issued 791 construction-trades invitations in six monthly draws in 2026. Alberta ran five small construction draws in nine months, with a 65-point cut-off in July. Here is what it means for workforce planning.
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Calgary Industrial Market Q2 2026: 3.24% Vacancy and a Pre-Leased Pipeline
Calgary industrial vacancy fell to 3.24% in Q2 2026 while space under construction rose 49% to 3.8M sq ft, much of it pre-leased. The feasibility risk has moved from leasing to delivery.
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Alberta Building Permits Jump 54.8% in Non-Residential While Canada Falls: What the August 2026 Data Really Says
Alberta building permits told a completely different story from the rest of Canada in August 2026. Nationally, non-residential building permits slipped 0.6%. In Alberta, they jumped 54.8%. Same country, same month, same release from Statistics Canada. That is not a small regional variation. It is a different construction pipeline. And if you plan capacity, price..
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Alberta Labour Market: 5 Critical Signals for Construction
The Alberta labour market moved against Canada’s national trend in September 2026, highlighting why local employment conditions matter for construction and business planning. While Canadian employment declined by approximately 68,000, Alberta recorded a net increase of 23,100 employed people. Quebec’s employment fell by 49,400, while British Columbia recorded a decline of 20,200. These provincial figures..
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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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Calgary Construction Costs vs Toronto: What the 2026 Data Actually Shows
For fifteen years the pitch has been the same in every boardroom west of Winnipeg: build in Alberta, it costs less than Toronto. In 2026 that sentence stopped being reliably true. Calgary construction costs now run above Greater Toronto on retail, warehousing and mid-rise residential, while remaining dramatically below the GTA on institutional, educational and..
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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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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 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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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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