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EllisDon takes No. 2 spot for Aon Hewitt’s Top 50 Best Employers in Canada
October 23, 2012 by On-Site staffConstruction companies were well represented on Aon Hewitt’s Top 50 Best Employers in Canada for 2013. EllisDon took the No. 2 spot, while several other firms cracked the top 50, including PCL Constructors (No. 17), Clark Builders (No. 32), Cruickshank…
B.C. reaches agreements for highway maintenance through 2018-19
October 23, 2012 by On-Site staffB.C.’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure recently reached agreements with the B.C. Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association (BCRB) and the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) for a five-year extension of 27 of the 28 provincial service area…
Non-residential building construction up in Q3 2012
October 22, 2012 by On-Site staffAccording to a recent Statistics Canada report, investment in non-residential building construction increased 0.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2012 (Q3 2012) to $12.1 billion, when compared to the previous quarter. This marked the third consecutive quarterly increase.…
Algonquin College opens $52M student commons building
October 19, 2012 by On-Site staffAlgonquin College held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the $52-million Robert C. Gillett Student Commons on Oct. 18 at its Woodroffe campus in Ottawa. The facility was designed as a non-academic space for students and features a…
Caterpillar Visitors Center opens doors Oct. 20
October 18, 2012 by On-Site staffCaterpillar Inc. is ready to open the doors to a new building that will share the company’s long history with the world. The Caterpillar Visitors Center will open on Oct. 20 and offers guests a chance to learn about the…
Bridge and shoreline construction law changes proposed
October 18, 2012 by On-Site staffThe Government of Canada introduced amendments to the Navigable Waters Protection Act designed to reduce “red tape” for bridge work, a move that is music to the ears of the Canadian Construction Association (CCA). The CCA stated that the amendments…
Mott MacDonald releases concept for $278M stadium in Regina
October 17, 2012 by Staff ReportThe City of Regina has released Mott MacDonald’s concept design for a new 33,000-seat stadium in Regina. The consultancy was hired by the City of Regina in June 2012 to provide engineering, architectural and public private partnership advisory services on…
TO2015 unveils stadium for host of Pan Am soccer
October 15, 2012 by Staff ReportHamilton’s storied Ivor Wynne Stadium will rise again as a state-of-the-art sport legacy to Steel Town, the sole host of soccer competitions during the upcoming TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games. The brand new $145.7-million stadium, renamed Hamilton Pan Am Soccer…
Ottawa’s newest landmark takes first place for CDBI
October 12, 2012 by Submitted by Canadian Construction Association (CCA)St. John’s, Nfld. – The Canadian Design Build Institute (CDBI) announced today the winners of its 10th Award of Excellence in design-build at the 2012 National Design-Build Conference, held this year from October 11-12 in St. John’s, Nfld. The 2012 Award…
RFQ issued for Toronto public health laboratory
October 12, 2012 by On-Site staffInfrastructure Ontario (IO) has issued a request for qualifications for the construction of Public Health Ontario’s (PHO) Toronto public health laboratory at MaRS Centre Phase 2, located in the city’s Discovery District. The facility will be designed as a flexible…
Construction companies make Top 100 employers list for 2013
October 10, 2012 by On-Site staffFour construction companies made the cut to Canada’s Top 100 Employers list for 2013. Aecon Group Inc., EllisDon Corporation, Ledcor Group of Companies and PCL Constructors Inc. all made top 100 list for next year. Each company was graded on…
Telus House Toronto earns LEED Platinum
October 10, 2012 by On-Site staffTelus House Toronto continued to build on its collection of awards and certifications with its recent achievement of LEED Platinum certification in the LEED for Existing Buildings (EB): Operations and Maintenance category. The 781,236 sq. ft., downtown commercial building is…
Building permits climb in August
October 5, 2012 by On-Site staffAccording to a recent Statistics Canada report, construction intentions jumped 7.9 per cent to an overall value of $7.3 billion in the month of August after dropping 2.8 per cent in July. The increase was fuelled by a 25.2-per cent…
Construction employment up in September
October 5, 2012 by On-Site staffAccording to a recent Statistics Canada report, employment in the construction sector was up 2.3 per cent, or 28,800 jobs in September when compared to the previous month. Over the 12-month period from September 2011 to September 2012, employment within…
VIDEO: Montreal suspends $75M in contracts following corruption allegations
October 4, 2012 by On-Site staffThe City of Montreal has suspended approximately $75 million in new infrastructure contracts to allow the provincial government time to make changes to Bill 35, the law that states how public contracts are awarded, according to a recent CBC News…
Earth Rangers Centre goes platinum
October 3, 2012 by On-Site staffThe Earth Rangers have gone from gold to platinum, after being awarded LEED Platinum certification by the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC), through the LEED for Existing Buildings (EB) green building rating system for its Earth Rangers Centre in Woodbridge, Ont.…
Navistar bolsters vocational product line; puts dealers through boot camp
October 1, 2012 by By James MenziesTEST DRIVE – SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Navistar International is looking to assert itself as the vocational truck market leader and over a four-week period concluding this week, has put more than 700 dealer reps through a vocational boot…
Aecon joint venture wins $100M pipeline contract
October 1, 2012 by On-Site staffAecon Group Inc. and Robert B. Somerville Co. Limited will work together on a contract to work on facilities related to the Cold Lake and Polaris pipelines in Alberta. The $100-million joint venture contract, awarded by Inter Pipeline Fund, will…
College of Trades releases apprenticeship ratio reviews
October 1, 2012 by On-Site staffThe Ontario College of Trades has published its first grouping of apprenticeship ratio review reports. Group A reports looked at journeyperson to apprentice ratios for the following compulsory trades: Group A – 1: Floor covering installer Group A – 2:…
Rediscover concrete this fall
September 28, 2012 by On-Site staffThe Cement Association of Canada (CAC) is looking to get members of the construction industry throughout Canada better acquainted with concrete. The CAC will host seminars and meetings titled, Rediscover Concrete in every province where they will discuss the material’s…