Infrastructure
Your top JOC headlines: May 18 to 22
Your top JOC headlines: May 18 to 22
This week’s top JOC headlines cover a COVID-19 outbreak that stems from the Kearl Lake oilsands project as cases continue to rise; an Indigenous group that has formed a blockade to prevent workers from entering a hydroelectric construction site; how Fort...
Government , Infrastructure , Labour , OH&S
TransLink successfully appeals Canada Line case
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Court of Appeals has sided with TransLink in a class action...
Government , Infrastructure
UPDATE: Indigenous group continues blockade over COVID-19 concerns in northern Manitoba
SPLIT LAKE, MAN. — Members of northern Manitoba First Nations who are worried ab...
Government , Infrastructure
Yukon road project a $468-million resource gateway
Construction work is expected to begin this year on at least two major component...
Infrastructure
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GBC team set to compete in CIOB Global Student Challenge finals
For the third year in a row, a George Brown College (GBC) team has qualified for...
Others
Lester Group carpenters step up to build 100-bed field hospital in Windsor, Ont.
When the Lester Group’s construction foreman Jerry Arnold told his carpentry cre...
Infrastructure , Projects
U.S. existing home sales plunge 17.8% in April
WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes plunged 17.8 per cent in April with the rea...
Economic
Alaska agency to review Donlin Gold mine gas pipeline lease
BETHEL, ALASKA — The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has started a review...
Government , Resource
Pinehurst’s sudden bankruptcy leaves its carpenters, millwrights in the dark
Cabinet-maker Jason Hooker and 70 or so other employees were left in the dark wh...
Economic
New program helps apprentices get the tools they need to get back to work
Recognizing that the skilled trades has been one of the hardest hit sectors duri...
Government , Labour
Inside Innovation: Medical scientists petition WHO to address HVAC issues
Specialists in infectious diseases around the world are asking the World Health...
Technology
Four workers injured at Ottawa LRT jobsite
OTTAWA — Four workers were sent to hospital May 21 when a rebar cage gave way du...
OH&S
U.S. and Canadian Housing Starts – A Suite of 10 Graphs
U.S. Home Starts -45% since January; Canada, -24% The story of the recent det...
Economic
IBEW’s Barry, ECAO’s Aitken urge members to stay safe
TORONTO — The leaders of the Electrical Contractors Association of Ontario (ECAO...
Associations
Great Gulf, Minto, Trademark win DRHBA awards
OSHAWA, ONT. — Great Gulf, Minto Communities and Trademark Homes we among multip...
Associations , Projects
The Economy Under COVID-19: Notes From the Trenches – May 22, 2020
There are currently two crises underway simultaneously. The advance of the novel...
Economic
Sturgeon Refinery says it is processing bitumen after two years of delays
CALGARY — The operators of the $9.7-billion Sturgeon Refinery say it is now proc...
Economic
Manitoba announces capital incentive to spur economic growth
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has announced a new tax increment financing i...
Economic , Government
TC Energy joins pumped hydro power storage project at retired coal mine site
CALGARY — Developers of a stored hydroelectric power project to be built next to...
Economic , Projects
Rock slide reported at Peter Kiewit Sons’ Lillooet, B.C. project
A contractor that is preparing to face a criminal trial for the death of a worke...
OH&S , Projects
Your top JOC headlines: May 18 to 22
This week’s top JOC headlines cover a COVID-19 outbreak that stems from the Kear...
Government , Infrastructure , Labour , OH&S
Largest yet: $1.3 billion contract for border wall awarded
PHOENIX — A North Dakota construction company favoured by President Donald Trump...
Government , Infrastructure
Legal Notes: Breach of trust remains a powerful payment dispute weapon
With so much attention paid to Ontario’s new prompt payment regime, it’s possibl...
Government
PHOTO: The Empire’s Balconies
Balcony work is moving up at the Empire Midtown mixed-use development on Eglinto...
Projects
OWWA conference on hold due to pandemic
TORONTO — The Ontario Water Works Association (OWWA) has decided to postpone Ont...
Associations
Defence Construction Canada among winners of 2019 Employment Equity Achievement Award
OTTAWA — Defence Construction Canada (DCC) is one of 14 Canadian employers named...
Labour
Waterloo theme park moving ahead with big Iowa expansion
WATERLOO, IOWA — Plans for the Lost Island Theme Park are moving forward even as...
Projects
Scotts Mills Dam project near Peterborough, Ont. resumes
PETERBOROUGH, ONT. — Construction is set to resume at Scotts Mills Dam at Lock 1...
Infrastructure
McMillan presses pause on skilled trades career to volunteer as frontline worker
Skilled trades professional Jamie McMillan has traded in her hard hat for a face...
Others
Your top DCN headlines: May 18 to 22
Your top DCN headlines this week delve into what construction industry leaders t...
Associations , Economic , Government , OH&S , Others
Legal Notes: The assignment of risk in post-COVID contract bids and tenders
It’s taken a global pandemic to draw attention to clauses in construction contra...
Government
Alberta Energy Regulator suspends environment monitoring for oilpatch over COVID
CALGARY — A wide array of environmental monitoring requirements have been suspen...
Government
U.S. and Canadian Q1 Foreign Trade ‒ A Suite of Graphs
‘Run of the Mill’ Trade Deficits in March The following seven gra...
Economic
The Economy Under COVID-19: Notes From the Trenches – May 21, 2020
There are currently two crises underway simultaneously. The advance of the novel...
Economic
MCAC to hold first-ever online conference
OTTAWA — The Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada (MCAC) is hosting the...
Associations
Google backs off on AI for oil and gas extraction
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Google says it will no longer build custom artificial in...
Technology
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Site C contractor racks up fines for high-risk violations
WorkSafeBC has slapped the main civil works contractor for the Site C project wi...
Infrastructure , OH&S
Construction COVID-19 stimulus welcome, but details are needed
National construction associations are applauding the federal government’s plan...
Government , Infrastructure
10 Mid-May Economic Nuggets ‒ With an Emphasis on U.S. Retail Sales
Earlier, there was a reporting lag of a month or two, but the latest public and...
Economic
Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Why the construction trades are the pandemic-proof career choice
To call these challenging times for job seekers would be an understatement. COV...
Labour
Top 10 major upcoming Atlantic and Manitoba, Saskatchewan construction projects – Canada – May 2020
The accompanying tables show the top 10 largest upcoming Atlantic and Manitoba,...
Economic
Feds unveil new COVID-19 stream for provincial infrastructure program
OTTAWA — Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna says the government is settin...
Government , Infrastructure
Supermetal builds bones of two Vancouver projects through COVID-19 challenges
Two Vancouver projects are forming steel skeletons while workers face the challe...
Projects
B.C. construction leaders back federal COVID-19 infrastructure stream
Western Canadian construction leaders are reacting positively to a new COVID-19-...