Public Works

Feds budget up to $5M for latest upgrade to Cliff heating plant in Ottawa

The federal government says it’s planning another major overhaul of the central heating and cooling plant that serves dozens of downtown Ottawa buildings. Public Works

Feds readying $175M rehabilitation of Terrasses de la Chaudière in Gatineau

Construction

Public Works is looking to hire an architectural firm to help it draft plans for a major overhaul of the country’s single-largest federal office complex

OC Transpo trying to keep defence employees on board

Ottawa

OC Transpo is gearing up to keep as many National Defence employees as possible as the great Nortel campus migration finally begins. Beginning in September,

Adding new procedures to defence purchases could exacerbate delays, deputy warns

Defence and Security

Senior officials at National Defence were concerned last fall that the Harper government’s plan to rescue its problem-plagued military procurement system would make a bad

Builders eye office projects outside core

Non-Residential

A pair of planned new office buildings at Tunney’s Pasture and the Ottawa Train Yards could be a signal that developers believe the federal government

Opinion: Sorting out opaque office market moves in the capital

Ottawa

The year 2013 may be remembered as the year in which all the things that Public Works had said would start happening did indeed start

Feds in talks about vacating 500,000 square feet of office space

Non-Residential

The federal government is refusing to go into details regarding discussions with a landlord about vacating 500,000 square feet of office space in the National

Oshkosh to bid on Canadian military trucks contract

Defence and Security

Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense, which has an office in Ottawa, plans to bid on the Canadian Forces’ standard military pattern truck contract of the proposed medium

Conference Centre upgrades to cost $91M

Construction

Public Works is soliciting bids for an estimated $91 million rehabilitation of the Government Conference Centre in the city’s former downtown train station on Rideau

Carling building finally coming down

Construction

After sitting empty for four years, a decrepit federal office building near Dow’s Lake is finally being dismantled, according to Public Works. The demolition of