The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Canada in October 2008, according to dollar volume. In the latest month, there were three projects each in Québec, Ontario and Alberta and one in British Columbia. Also included is the latest trend graph on starts. This sets out the 12-month moving totals (again based on dollar volume) of the two major non-residential building categories in Canada − total ICI starts and engineering work. ICI stands for industrial, commercial and institutional.

The information on construction starts in Canada − nationally, provincially and by Census Metropolitan Areas, dollars and square footage − comes from CanaData, a statistics-gathering and forecasting agency for the construction industry and a product line of Reed Construction Data.