JOC ARCHIVES

Archives for April 2006

2006-04-26—MORE TRADES MONEY
2006-04-26—Importing Chinese workers to the oil sands
2006-04-26—DCC REAPPOINTS
2006-04-26—Blowing
2006-04-24—Sustainable buildings start with the design
2006-04-24—Communicating Electronically
2006-04-24—Boom pushes up zoo cost
2006-04-24—Putting wheels on trades training
2006-04-24—Offering awards for best industry website
2006-04-24—Intelligent buildings:
2006-04-24—PAVING THE WAY
2006-04-24—CONCRETING FUNDS
2006-04-24—Ethics audits unnecessary in the west
2006-04-24—Building a beluga bathtub in Calgary
2006-04-24—Learning to build green
2006-04-19—Discarding suits for hardhats to aid charity
2006-04-19—$210 million gets B.C. moving
2006-04-19—Looking at flip side of importing workers
2006-04-19—For the record: Stonecliff a finalist
2006-04-19—Commercial, industrial still hot markets
2006-04-19—Port earns LEED-CI gold designation
2006-04-19—Federation blasts government, claiming there’s no labour crisis
2006-04-19—WOMEN FORM
2006-04-19—B.C. commits $3 million to trades training equipment
2006-04-19—Offering an ocean view
2006-04-17—Preparing for a downturn
2006-04-17—PCL celebrates 100 years by reflecting on its past
2006-04-17—Survey gauges IT use
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2006-04-17—Designing for disassembly Functions need be considered KORKY KOROLUK Correspondent OTTAWA – It is possible to zip and unzip buildings, and it’s time Canadians began thinking that way, the National Green Building Conference was told last week. Designing for disassembly is another way of putting it, said Vince Catalli, director of sustainable development with the Cement Association of Canada. It’s an idea that Catalli began advocating almost two decades ago while working as an independent consultant. The idea is simply that buildings should be designed and built so that it is a simple matter to take them apart for recycling and reuse. At the time, he called it deconstruction. But as the idea was developed, another factor was added — designing for adaptability. Now, Catalli said, if you can integrate functionality into your design, “you’ll get more bang for your buck.” An example of this, he said, might be a building in which uses flip back and forth, such as a community centre that functions in that role early in the day, becomes a school during the morning and afternoon, then is a community centre again come late afternoon and evening. Adaptability can also mean switching a building to some use other than the original one, and there are many examples of this, he said, citing a project in Ottawa where a school was converted to a condominium apartment building that included a day care. “And when you drive by it,” he said, “you’d never guess that that structure was once a school.” Ease of disassembly can aid adaptability in other ways, he said, and using precast elements in the design can further that objective. He said that in Holland, a public housing building had become too big for the needs of the neighbourhood. So two storeys were removed from it — unzipped — and relocated to a neighbourhood with greater need. Even where parts of a building aren’t being detached and moved, proper design can help repairs later on. “If you put something like a slip-sheet between the membrane and the insulation when the roof is first built, then removing and replacing that membrane becomes a much simpler, quicker job 20 or 25 years later,” he said. “People simply don’t want to build in non-traditional ways,” he said. To overcome that reluctance, “we need to provide an environmental rationale through life-cycle assessment. And we need to be honest and thorough in our projections of economic performance.
2006-04-17—Growth prompts challenges
2006-04-17—Push on for industry ‘champion’
2006-04-17—When is a tender not really a tender?
2006-04-17—ICBA sets record straight on rates
2006-04-12—B.C. forks out $10.5 million for pine beetle initiatives
2006-04-12—GAINING JOBS
2006-04-12—UP FOR AUCTION
2006-04-12—Study shows concrete construction economical
2006-04-12—Camps floated for Olympic workers
2006-04-12—Vancouver airport plans
2006-04-12—PAPER ARRIVES LATE
2006-04-10—Dawson City experiencing thaw
2006-04-10—CCA recruiting young people to the industry
2006-04-10—Resignation won’t hurt construction
2006-04-10—Climate
2006-04-10—New wood group launched
2006-04-10—E-TOWN EAST
2006-04-10—OWNING YOUR OWN TOWN, ZIP CODE
2006-04-10—The world’s most slender building
2006-04-10—Labour seeking excursion to Europe fruitful
2006-04-10—Blending function and heritage
2006-04-05—Homeworks tackles
2006-04-05—WORKER WAGES
2006-04-05—NANAIMO CENTRE
2006-04-05—Art gallery showcases Arthur Erickson retrospective
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2006-04-05—LEAST AFFORDABLE
2006-04-03—EMPLOYMENT
2006-04-03—Virtual visualization still on the fringe
2006-04-03—Canadian Cement Industry Releases First Sustainability Report
2006-04-03—Vancouver Port Authority Building gets LEED Gold Certification
2006-04-03—CANADA LINE
2006-04-03—Contractor Procurement Procedures are Key to a Project’s Success or Failure
2006-04-03—PEACE UPGRADER
2006-04-03—Builders Lien Issues in Residential Construction and Renovation Contracts