Special Feature
Building Products Manufacturing
Feature Articles - Building Products Manufacturing

Burning communities the fire, not smoke, for building changes
The products are out there to make buildings more fire resilient, say product ma...
Others , Technology

Canada slow to join the global ‘Mod Squad’
Productivity growth within the construction industry requires more than the adop...
Others , Resource

What have COVID-19’s impact been on industrial warehouse supply and demand?
For the past year-and-a-half, COVID-19 has been reminding us that many personal...
Economic , Others

Novarc ‘cobot’ puts torch to welding skills gap
North Vancouver's Novarc Technologies 'cobot' is putting the torch to the weldin...
Labour , Others
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Below are articles from the latest Building Products Manufacturing Special Feature, published August 27, 2021 by the Journal of Commerce.
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Construction Material Costs – Spikes Everywhere
The breakouts in U.S. construction material input costs showed few signs of abat...
Economic

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Does the ‘Nudge Theory’ apply to trades and apprenticeship?
Recently I reacquainted myself with the research report It Pays to Hire an Appre...
Labour

Designed for disassembly: Projects built with their demise in mind
BC Housing, a Crown corporation that develops subsidized living quarters, has cr...
Projects , Resource

Canada’s first ‘wet process’ facility for contaminated soil to open in Calgary
By mid-summer, Calgary's construction and demolition industry, looking to dispos...
Resource , US News

PCL teaches critter tips to Australia, Texas crews
ORANGE GROVE, AUS. — Health and safety for PCL extends those who have more than...
OH&S

Risk expert assesses B.C. forestry sector
Rapidly changing situations around COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, corporate cultu...
Economic , Resource

VIDEO: Royal Columbian Hospital site tour
The redevelopment of the Royal Columbian Hospital is a $1.49B three-phase redeve...
Associations , Infrastructure , Projects

Strong lumber prices boost Canfor Q1 profits 25 per cent despite pulp losses
VANCOUVER - Canfor Corp. is reporting a 25 per cent increase in net profits in i...