A New Skin for Old Residences

The latest Steligence® study examines over-cladding options for Deep Energy Retrofits

You will find them in every city: concrete high-rises standing taller than 8 storeys. Built between 1960 and 1990, these concrete complexes serve as the backbone of most of our cities, representing a first real strive to build residences up instead of out. Today, owners of these buildings are faced with a choice. Due to rising energy costs – and greater calls to be more energy efficient by bo…

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The Cabin on Pinery Line

Prestige steel products have residential uses, too

The Cabin on Pinery Line – although “cabin” is a bit more of a rustic word than the cool, steel-focused dwelling that it is – is a sleek, glowing residence, nestled into the woods along the Maitland River. It’s not a commercial or industrial building. You won’t find it on a map. It’s a small home in the town of Auburn, a few minutes drive from Lake Huron’s east coast, a winterized …

How the Sausage Is Made

Peeking behind the curtain of steel product development

Steel is static. The steel industry isn’t. New innovations and improvements in the space are essential, especially with tightening standards and expectations surrounding climate change and embodied carbon content. From utilizing environmentally friendly steelmaking processes to producing more sustainable steel, more is happening in the steel industry than ever before. But how are these change…

A Really Big Dill

With pre-fab steel, you too could have a backyard Pickleball court

 Back in the fall of 2022, Natasha Larock caught the Pickleball bug. “I first tried it a couple of years ago, and I was immediately hooked,” she says.  “She’s totally obsessed,” husband Gordon laughs.  Like many, Natasha was attracted to the nature of the sport: a hybrid of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong whose popularity is sweeping across North America. Using a wi…

Rink of Dreams

The Alaine Chartrand Arena is a small town’s home of hopes and aspirations

Sixteen-year-old David Sinclair doesn’t mince words when he talks about the old ice rink in Prescott, Ontario. “It sucked,” he says. The ice was too small, the changing rooms could barely fit a full bantam hockey team, and, oh yeah, an ammonia leak in the refrigeration lines suddenly and permanently closed the arena in 2018. That left the local hockey league and Prescott Skating Club scra…

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