Join industry leaders for a panel discussion exploring Ontario’s housing challenges, and how we can create more - and affordable - supply.

In this episode of the Construction Record podcast, Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce national managing editor Vince Versace talks to Arash Shahi, the co-founder and CEO of AECO Innovation Lab.

Arash is an e-permitting advocate based out of Toronto, Canada. He has created a network of businesses, builders, owners, and architects that are pushing for the ability to approve building permits through PDF documents and from the model. In this podcast, he brings insight to what we hope the future of permitting can look like.

Members of the AECO team and One Ontario steering committee participate in this webinar hosted in partnership with the Canadian Business Councils of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

This paper explores how municipalities across Ontario are migrating towards electronic permitting (e-permitting) systems.

A complimentary webinar that provides a definition for Building Information Modeling (BIM), the fundamental principles, benefits and Canadian resources to learn more

Published in November 2020, this report includes data collected over three years and establishes a benchmark of BIM use in Canada.

AECO's CEO Arash Shahi participates in this CanBIM session exploring opportunities for start-ups.

AECO Board of Advisors member Richard Lyall comments on the benefits of the One Ontario initiative in Building Excellence magazine.

This paper explores how e-permitting practices have been introduced in many municipal jurisdictions around the world.