Special Feature
General and Trade Contracting
Below are articles from the latest General and Trade Contracting Special Feature Newsletter, published May 28, 2021 by the Journal of Commerce.
Feature Articles - General and Trade Contracting

Expenses write-off could help ease labour shortage: CBTU
Canada's Building Trade Unions (CBTU) has a solution it believes will help solve...
Government

BCCSA explores how best to safely handle hazardous isocyanates
A recent webinar by the BC Construction Safety Alliance (BCCSA) was on a subject...
OH&S

Deconstruction: A new way to make old buildings disappear
Unbuilders is a young Vancouver company that deconstructs — dismantles — residen...
Projects

Go-getter drive and a single excavator got RG Excavating rolling
Nearly 30 years ago, Rob Grant of Victoria, B.C., took the plunge, bought an exc...
Economic
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Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – August 2023
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Economic , Infrastructure , Projects

Inuvik wind turbine achieves major milestone as first power delivered to grid
In mid-September, Inuvik celebrated the first power produced by a 3.5-megawatt w...
Infrastructure , Resource

Construction steel prices in 2023-24 expected to remain high
Western Canada’s steel prices are expected remain high over the next 2023-2024 p...
Economic , Resource

Mass timber ‘part of a collective solution’ to the housing crisis
The affordable housing crisis isn’t about to go away, but there are some strateg...
Resource

Water, land and the canoe the essence behind VCC’s innovation centre
Excavation and shoring work will begin next spring for a massive, state-of-the-a...
Projects

PNE Amphitheatre demo underway, new build cost escalates
Construction crews have started tearing down infrastructure at the 59-year-old P...
Infrastructure , Projects

Canada needs to build more mines now: MAC president
Canada needs to build more mines, pronto. So says Pierre Gratton, president and...
Associations , Resource

B.C. prompt payment moving slowly: ‘We keep getting pushed off’
A perfect storm of inflation, interest rate hikes, supply chain issues and wildf...