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April 30, 2008

Billions allocated to infrastructure in Alberta’s 2008 budget

The Alberta Budget 2008 unveiled by Ed Stelmach’s government last week plans to inject a massive multi-billion dollar investment into infrastructure development in the next three years.

April 7, 2008

Calgary city council tackles construction hoarding practices

The City of Calgary is developing new policies for construction hoarding practices, fees and fines associated with street use, in order to improve mobility of traffic and pedestrians in the downtown area.

March 26, 2008

U.S. academy studies ‘grand challenges for engineering’

The United States National Academy of Engineering has been conducting a fascinating exercise for the last few months.

March 24, 2008

Statistics Canada releases new infrastructure asset study: “Infrastructure Capital, 1960 to 2003”

The study, entitled Infrastructure Capital 1960 to 2003, states that infrastructure is “a set of fixed structures that have long useful lives, whose creation involves a considerable gestation period, that have no good short to medium-run substitutes, that underpin the production of a flow of services, and for which it is difficult to maintain inventories.”

March 19, 2008

Scotland’s Production Services Network acquires Calgary’s Tartan Engineering Ltd.

Scottish engineering services firm Production Services Network (PSN) is establishing a presence in the western Canadian construction market through the acquisition of Calgary-based Tartan Engineering Ltd.

March 19, 2008

SLCP-SELI Joint Venture laid off foreign workers within minutes of final Canada Line breakthrough, union claims

“The tunnel-boring machine broke through for a tidy media event. A bunch of foreign workers were used for a photo opportunity and a handshake with the Premier,” said Kevin Blakley, legal council for the Construction and Specialized Workers’ Union Local 1611. “About a half-hour later, they were laid off. The guys who were laid off received a medal and were given a $20 bonus.”

March 19, 2008

British Columbia recruiters attract 2,500 Ontario job-seekers

Representatives of the British Columbia construction industry participated in a provincial government recruitment initiative in Ontario late last month. The drive was intended to spread the word about employment opportunities in the British Columbia.

March 10, 2008

Genivar acquires EXH Engineering and RFA Consulting

Genivar Income Fund expands into Western Canada with the purchase of two companies, EXH Engineering Services Ltd. of Alberta and RFA Consulting Electrical Engineers Inc. of British Columbia.

March 3, 2008

Workers celebrate Canada Line’s bored-tunnel breakthrough

A critical phase of Canada Line construction was completed on Sunday, March 2, 2008 when the project’s 440-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through the ground into the future site of Canada Line’s Waterfront Station.

February 25, 2008

Infrastructure value increasing as it gets younger

The value of public infrastructure in Alberta is rising faster than in any other province.

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.