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May 12, 2008
Soaring construction costs may imperil Lundin Mining’s Congo mine project
Vancouver-based company Lundin Mining Corp. says soaring construction costs are increasing the uncertainty around a billion dollar mining project in Central Africa.
May 5, 2008
News from the job site
A selection of brief stories from construction sites in Canada and Australia.
May 5, 2008
Vision Steel installs Garco’s biggest truss ever
The Garco Building Systems-built truss was installed by Vision Steel Contracting on April 28 at the new London Aviation Centre at the YVR South Terminal.
April 28, 2008
Repair work begins on Pitt River bridge
A nine-metre tower of rebar, one of the support pylons for the Pitt River bridge, fell over in the early hours of April 14 when a crane came into contact with a guy wire. Despite this setback the bridge is scheduled for completion in late 2009.
April 14, 2008
Pitt River Bridge support column topples
Workers check out the rebar of a concrete support column for the Pitt River Bridge that toppled over in the early morning hours of April 14, 2008.
April 2, 2008
Aecon and Scott Construction announce eight British Columbia projects worth over $300 million
Aecon Group Inc. (TSX: ARE) today announced that eight of the company’s new British Columbia projects will be delivered by Scott Construction Group of Vancouver. Aecon holds a 49% stake in Scott Construction.
March 17, 2008
Parkside Victoria Resort and Spa
Two construction workers focus on rebar during the construction of the Parkside Victoria Resort and Spa on Humboldt Street in downtown Victoria.
March 12, 2008
Harjim Industrial Services on the job at Pacific Sport Institute
Workers with Marjim Industrial Services put the finishing touches on some steel columns on the west side of the gym at the Pacific Sport Institute project at Camosun College’s Interurban campus on the outskirts of Victoria.
February 27, 2008
Smith Bros & Wilson build Lynn Valley Care Centre
A trio of contractors do the formwork and rebar for the Lynn Valley Care Centre, a seniors’ care centre in North Vancouver.
February 25, 2008
Rootin Tootin Rebar in Vancouver
A pair of workers receive a load of rebar at Sugar, a mixed use highrise development on East Hastings in Vancouver.
June 25, 2007
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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.”
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