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December 24, 2008

Armtec Infrastructure wins $19.4 million girder-supply contract

Armtec Infrastructure Income Fund’s Con-Force division has won a $19.4-million contract to supply and deliver bridge girders for a bridge construction project in Edmonton, Alberta.

December 17, 2008

City of Vancouver files suit against Stantec over 2010 Olympic Athletes Village dispute

Stantec is being sued by the City of Vancouver over a relatively small problem with the construction of a wall on the foreshore of the Olympic Village project.

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 8, 2008

Commodities slump put the squeeze on demolition firms

What a difference a meltdown makes. This time last year, demolition crews were paying building owners to win their contracts — now they’re begging them to put their projects on hold as crumbling commodity prices put a huge dent in estimates.

November 17, 2008

Recycling of construction and demolition waste at Water Centre project pays off

Putting their money where their mouth is, the city of Calgary’s new Water Centre used recycling to reduce environmental impact and to earn the developer extra LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) credits.

November 5, 2008

20th annual Award of Excellence winners

The Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA) announced the winners of their 20th Annual Awards of Excellence at a gala at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver on October 30, 2008.

November 5, 2008

Gold Award winners announced at Vancouver Regional Construction Association gala

The Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA) unveiled their Gold Awards of Excellence winners at a recent gala in Vancouver.

November 3, 2008

Vancouver Regional Construction Association announces winners of 20th Annual Awards of Excellence

The Vancouver Regional Construction Association announced the winners of the organization’s 20th Annual Awards of Excellence at a gala at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver on October 30, 2008.

October 15, 2008

University of Waterloo project studies feasibility of recycling asphalt shingles for road construction

Experiments exploring the use of asphalt shingles for highway construction and full-depth asphalt reclamation were recent topics of discussion at a national conference in Toronto.

October 13, 2008

Supermétal Structures lands $6-million steel-supply contract for two Saskatchewan projects

Supermétal Structures of St-Romuald, Quebec has signed the first of two contracts in Saskatchewan, totalling more than $6 million to fabricate or install more than 1,600 tons of steel.

June 25, 2007

Raising the bar code for efficient tracking sys

Bar codes have been used successfully as a means of identifying structural components being manufactured and delivered to a job site. New bar coding systems, however, are building on that success.

June 25, 2007

Corrugated steel wall system beats plywood under quake conditions

A new shear wall system developed in California uses simple corrugated steel panels screwed onto galvanized steel studs to create a structure that provides about three times the strength of plywood sheathed panels and about twice the strength of proprietary sheet metal backed panels.

June 25, 2007

Phenomenal amount of steel used in centre

To say that Nanaimo’s downtown Vancouver Island Conference Centre, set to be completed by late spring next year, used a ton of structural steel is to understate by about 849 tons.

June 25, 2007

Airport's new fire institute highlights green building

The recently-opened 2,360-square-metre Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute at Lester B. Pearson International Airport has won a Green Buildings Award of Excellence from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (Ontario Region).

June 25, 2007

Cable net wall gives illusion of transparency

Cable net walls are deceptively simple structures that employ tensioned steel cables as the primary structural element. The cables are arranged in a grid, then fastened with clamps or “nodes” where the cables cross.

June 25, 2007

Canadian firm honoured for participation in U.S. memorial

Three, free-standing, 270-foot-high stainless steel arcs that commemorate the members of the United States Air Force has been recognized with a Project Outside of Ontario Award of Excellence from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (Ontario Region).

June 25, 2007

Vanbots celebrates opening at ROM

Vanbots Construction Corp. celebrated the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum at sunset last Wednesday with clients and the local design and construction community.

June 25, 2007

Steel is the most recycled material on earth

You don’t have to tell anyone in the steel industry about the need to recycle. They’ve been on board before it was even trendy to go green.

June 25, 2007

Seismic standards for steel frames to be reconciled

The 2005 National Building Code of Canada introduced substantial technical changes over the previous edition, including a new subsection on Earthquake Load and Effects. The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) addressed the same seismic concerns through standard CAN/CSA-S16-01 but with slightly different terminology.

June 25, 2007

Oborowsky to take over reins of steel construction institute

Donald Oborowsky may be sitting at the helm of one of Canada’s largest steel fabricators, but he hasn’t lost sight of his roots.

June 25, 2007

Awards showcase innovative use of steel

The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Alberta awards for 2007 have showcased four winning projects that feature innovative use of steel. One of the most striking projects was the University of Lethbridge’s new centre for Sports and Wellness, which utilizes a new design for a steel open-span roof.

June 25, 2007

"We're the envy of the other regions right now"

The Western regions of B.C., Alberta and Central Canada of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction are surpassing other parts of Canada, says Peter Timler, the CISC’s Western regional executive director. “We are the envy of the other regions right now,” he says, of the association’s six Canadian regions.

June 25, 2007

Rustic Steel barns hub of community activity

From the highway, the series of long, low red barns, rustic in their traditional design, seem like just another element of this agricultural community were wide-open fields, browsing livestock, and roadside stands with homegrown goods are a sharp contrast to metropolitan Vancouver only a few hours away.

June 25, 2007

Building around planes, trains, ferries and automobiles can be a logistical nightmare

David Powley, owner of Power Steel, said the job of building a pedestrian walkway over railway tracks in Whistler, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics, ranked in the top three in degree of difficulty, up there with building toll booths at BC Ferries’ Tsawwassen terminal and the Pier “C” domestic terminal at Vancouver International Airport.

June 25, 2007

JDG Construction recycling used steel buildings

The ad for what Joe Gvozdanovich’s company does might read something like this – “For sale, one used, but still good, steel building. We deliver.”