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January 7, 2009

Korky Koroluk: Suddenly, everyone is talking about infrastructure

An old mule-skinner was having trouble with a young mule he had teamed with an older animal. The young one was stubborn, hard to handle. It was, well, mulish.

January 7, 2009

Federal government plans multi-million dollar investment in Alberta infrastructure

The federal government plans to make a multi-million dollar investment over four years to develop infrastructure, such as roads, public transit, and water/wastewater systems in Alberta.

December 17, 2008

Aecon acquires Alberta’s South Rock Ltd.

Aecon Group Inc. announced on December 15, 2008 that it has signed a share purchase agreement with South Rock Ltd., an established infrastructure construction business focusing primarily on the southern Albertan roadbuilding market.

December 10, 2008

Institute recognizes British Columbia’s best steel projects

An Olympic ski jump and a pedestrian bridge were the big winners when the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction handed out their design awards for British Columbia.

December 10, 2008

Genivar Income Fund acquires Pomeroy Consulting Engineers

Genivar Income Fund announced on December 12, 2008 that the company has acquired Pomeroy Consulting Engineers Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia.

November 19, 2008

Metro Vancouver digs deep to hire new contractor for North Vancouver Water Filtration Project

Metro Vancouver is in the process of hiring a new contractor to complete the construction of twin tunnels for a water filtration project in North Vancouver.

November 19, 2008

Canadian construction, engineering companies join push for more federal infrastructure spending

Construction and engineering representatives can be counted among those joining the chorus of calls from Canadian premiers for accelerated federal infrastructure spending.

November 12, 2008

Mechanical insulation important to long-term costs

In an era of high energy costs and environmental accountability, it’s surprising, but not unusual, for building owners to trim mechanical insulation from building budgets.

November 10, 2008

Recent cabinet shuffle bodes well for Canadian construction industry, CCA president says

The new cabinet assembled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has received a “thumbs-up” from two construction industry stakeholders.

November 10, 2008

Four Canadian consulting engineering firms named among top 100 employers

Four consulting engineering companies are numbered among Canada’s top 100 employers in a recent report published in Maclean’s magazine.

September 25, 2006

Cross border business guide to be updated

When it comes to complex issues like cross-border business, the Canadian Construction Association will look to those who know the subject best — its own members.

September 25, 2006

Largest tunnel project in decades

Last year’s Port of Vancouver container strike by truckers and this year’s acute shortage of manpower in the construction industry have combined to stall the 2008 completion date of the new $600 million Seymour-Capilano Filtration Project (SCFP).

September 25, 2006

Transfer of intellectual property rights concerns design industry

Ontario’s design industry plans to take Infrastructure Ontario “up on its offer” to discuss a controversial proposal that would require transfer of intellectual property by project bidders.

September 25, 2006

Bridge a quandary

Oh dear, what can the matter be, this old bridge is under capacity, what to do is a big quandary, will a decision be made?

September 25, 2006

Branch supports APEGBC Foundation

APEGBC’s Sea to Sky Branch has donated $3,000 to the APEGBC Foundation to fund its scholarships.

September 25, 2006

APEGBC is looking to the future

For the APEGBC’s new chairman, public safety and professional standards go hand in hand, whether he’s reflecting on the associations past successes or looking forward to his upcoming term.

September 25, 2006

BC's demand for engineers not being met

It’s a fairly old story in the construction industry, the one about the university-trained immigrant engineer who can’t get a job in B.C. and is working for minimum wage at something else.

September 25, 2006

Mind your 3Ps and Qs: new course offered

">The University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business plans to offer courses in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) — the first of their kind in Canada — by as early as 2007, says Tom Ross, director of Sauder’s Phelps Centre for the Study of Government and Business.

September 25, 2006

Going where most engineers fear to tread

The Case of The Boy Who Plunged Down An Elevator Shaft riveted Albertans a couple of years ago.

September 25, 2006

Aerospace Centre flies past constraints

A new aerospace centre will give students a chance to reach for the skies, thanks to some ground-level engineering know-how.

September 25, 2006

Living Shangri-La has Vancouver's Heaviest Tower

The core needed to support Vancouver’s tallest downtown building – the Living Shangri-La hotel/private residential complex – had to be excavated to twice the normal depth of other buildings, says the geo-technical engineer on the excavation project.

September 25, 2006

Golden Ears more than just a bridge

The Golden Ears Bridge will alleviate traffic woes between Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. But in order to get the bridge across the Fraser River and connecting those communities, Translink and its construction partners had to surmount a series of engineering problems.