Julien Bélair

Imagine a sleepy stretch of South Jersey transforming into a bustling center of commerce, where businesses of all kinds find a home tailored to their unique needs. In the heart of Clarksboro, East Greenwich, a new development is capturing attention and promising to redefine the local landscape.

Imagine a building material that can withstand blazing fires, shrug off moisture and mold, and still leave a minimal footprint on the environment—sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? Yet, Magnesium Oxide (MgO) boards are doing exactly that, reshaping the construction industry with their

In the fast-evolving world of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), a silent crisis has been brewing for years—design data, the lifeblood of projects, remains trapped in proprietary software silos, stunting collaboration and innovation. Enter Speckle, a trailblazing open-source cloud

As I sit down with Luca Calarailli, a seasoned expert in construction with a deep-rooted passion for design, architecture, and cutting-edge technology, we dive into the latest trends shaping the real estate and building sectors. With his extensive experience, Luca offers a unique perspective on the

Wildfire seasons that stretch longer, earthquakes that strike without warning, and housing pressure that squeezes buildable land into tighter footprints have combined to force cities to rethink how they regulate construction, and Sonoma answered by moving in lockstep with California’s triennial

High-stakes construction deals now move at digital speed, yet a single vague indemnity clause or stray endorsement can shift millions in risk and derail a project before a shovel hits the ground. The comparison is stark: AI promises instant output at scale, while the legal system demands

Home renovation decisions often stall at the same point—finding a proven general contractor who is licensed, responsive, fairly priced, and ready to start within a reasonable window—because the costs of a bad choice can linger for years while the path to a good match is rarely clear. That friction

In a province where construction cranes rarely pause, the 2025 Ontario Embodied Carbon Awards gathered practitioners to show that material emissions were not an abstract accounting exercise but a design constraint shaping decisions from the quarry to the jobsite and back again through end-of-life.

A fast-modernizing real estate market rarely gets a chance to reset its digital foundation in one decisive move, yet that is the promise implied by a new pact that aims to fuse advisory expertise with an integrated, cloud-first technology core across the Kingdom’s property ecosystem. Land Sterling

The construction sector in the United States is witnessing an extraordinary upswing, with total construction starts skyrocketing by 21.1% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.53 trillion, signaling a pivotal moment for an industry at the forefront of economic transformation. This