Table 13
Value of non-residential building permits, by type of building, provinces and territories, unadjusted, August 2014

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Value of non-residential building permits, by type of building, provinces and territories, unadjusted, August 2014
Table summary
This table displays seasonally unadjusted data on the total value of non-residential permits issued by Canadian municipalities for the current reference month of non-residential building types. The row headers provide information on the total value of non-residential permits, the total industrial sub-sector value, four types of industrial buildings, the total commercial sub-sector value, eight types of commercial buildings, the total institutional and governmental sub-sector value and six types of institutional and governmental buildings. The column headers provide information on the value of construction, in thousands of dollars, for Canada, the provinces and territories.
  Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec Ontario
                    thousands of dollars
Total non-residential 2,489,215 73,154 7,899 44,371 36,051 349,848 860,080
Industrial 485,873 4,487 245 22,232 7,111 50,605 229,368
Factories, plants 207,383 0 0 1,190 4,638 13,705 104,780
Transportation, utilities 136,916 0 0 15,445 0 17,249 51,493
Mining and agriculture 78,278 4,000 0 3,970 950 8,275 47,410
Minor industrial projects, new and improvements 1 63,296 487 245 1,627 1,523 11,376 25,685
Commercial 1,578,663 67,079 3,002 18,394 22,457 225,457 482,335
Trade and services 382,836 7,947 600 3,909 1,380 110,598 91,698
Warehouses 109,675 13,319 0 3,511 397 12,365 35,254
Service stations 35,012 300 420 345 0 4,565 6,017
Office buildings 395,483 27,677 1,200 3,262 3,619 46,962 83,990
Recreation 154,610 1,000 0 2,800 13,324 6,539 63,955
Hotels, restaurants 355,359 14,729 275 640 285 19,163 146,095
Laboratories 2,383 0 0 0 0 643 1,000
Minor commercial projects, new and improvements 1 143,305 2,107 507 3,927 3,452 24,622 54,326
Institutional and governmental 424,679 1,588 4,652 3,745 6,483 73,786 148,377
Schools, education 215,135 1,507 4,192 593 1,635 38,422 81,810
Hospitals, medical 36,732 0 0 0 1,300 5,342 14,169
Welfare, home 69,808 0 0 2,341 600 6,735 24,007
Churches, religion 25,676 0 0 433 0 11,458 5,434
Government buildings 43,411 0 400 0 1,857 4,764 6,405
Minor institutional and governmental projects, new and improvements 1 33,917 81 60 378 1,091 7,065 16,552
Value of non-residential building permits, by type of building, provinces and territories, unadjusted, August 2014 (continued)
  Manitoba Saskat‑
chewan
Alberta British Columbia Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut
                    thousands of dollars
Total non-residential 91,729 82,832 735,868 200,859 5,120 1,404 0
Industrial 10,702 6,027 122,728 30,844 220 1,304 0
Factories, plants 1,710 575 72,534 7,391 0 860 0
Transportation, utilities 3,872 350 41,981 6,526 0 0 0
Mining and agriculture 1,393 1,950 517 9,813 0 0 0
Minor industrial projects, new and improvements 1 3,727 3,152 7,696 7,114 220 444 0
Commercial 69,057 61,385 505,923 122,203 1,271 100 0
Trade and services 27,169 17,428 96,769 25,338 0 0 0
Warehouses 3,215 9,130 23,082 8,802 600 0 0
Service stations 4,219 5,100 11,357 2,689 0 0 0
Office buildings 13,728 2,885 188,870 23,015 275 0 0
Recreation 9,450 0 37,248 20,294 0 0 0
Hotels, restaurants 6,411 23,209 123,983 20,569 0 0 0
Laboratories 0 0 740 0 0 0 0
Minor commercial projects, new and improvements 1 4,865 3,633 23,874 21,496 396 100 0
Institutional and governmental 11,970 15,420 107,217 47,812 3,629 0 0
Schools, education 2,320 8,918 51,103 22,430 2,205 0 0
Hospitals, medical 7,323 250 1,707 6,641 0 0 0
Welfare, home 0 5,273 30,852 0 0 0 0
Churches, religion 1,300 0 1,500 5,551 0 0 0
Government buildings 448 0 18,788 9,332 1,417 0 0
Minor institutional and governmental projects, new and improvements 1 579 979 3,267 3,858 7 0 0
Refer to projects valued at less than $250,000 for which the breakdown by type of building is not available.
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