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February 8, 2010
Art Gallery of Alberta addition showcases steel
The addition to the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) was designed to be a showpiece, anchoring the arts firmly in downtown Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square.
February 3, 2010
Ontario’s $7-billion green energy deal with Samsung will create 7,800 construction jobs
Ontario’s new $7-billion renewable power generation deal with a Korean consortium will create 7,800 construction jobs and position the province as a major green energy player, said Premier Dalton McGuinty.
December 23, 2009
1,400 ounces of gold found during Yukon mine demolition project
The Con Mine, located just south of Yellowknife, produced more than 160,000 kilograms of gold between 1938 and 2003. But the contractor now demolishing it says there are millions of dollars in gold left in the old girl yet.
December 21, 2009
Demolition of Ontario bridge takes hours, not days
In the brave, new world of highway bridge demolition, projects are scheduled over hours, not days.
December 14, 2009
British Columbia’s best steel projects win awards
The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) recently handed out awards for the best steel projects in the British Columbia region.
December 9, 2009
ICS Group workers protect concrete slab in Taber, Alberta
ICS Group Inc. employees recently rolled out more than eight kilometres of hose and double tarped a concrete slab in Taber, Alberta to prevent it from cracking.
November 30, 2009
New Stuart Park gets ice rink in Kelowna, British Columbia
A forklift picks up a bundle of rebar for the construction of a new outdoor winter ice rink at the new Stuart Park and waterfront promenade in Kelowna, B.C. The $4.86 million project includes a central service building, public washrooms and support infrastructure for the park.
November 23, 2009
Construction nears completion on mountaintop wind turbine near Vancouver
The first wind turbine in North America built in an extreme high altitude location is nearing completion on the top of a North Vancouver mountain.
November 18, 2009
Creating Vancouver Convention Centre’s green roof no simple task
Working atop a structure built on piles and at sometimes extreme angles made life interesting for the crews working on the Vancouver Convention Centre’s green roof.
November 16, 2009
Rebar on the roadside at West Pender Place in Vancouver
Ironworkers put a rebar cage together on a roadside workstation at West Pender Place in downtown Vancouver. The $225 million condominium and commercial project involves the construction of 10-storey and 36-storey highrise towers connected by five-storey lowrise townhouse buildings.
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
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
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
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
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.”
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
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
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
"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
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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
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
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
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).
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| CURRENT STORIES |
- New deal allows Canadian construction firms to bid on U.S. stimulus projects
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- Canadian Construction Association summit zeroes in on industry concerns
- Art Gallery of Alberta addition showcases steel
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- Saskatchewan gets new natural gas trades training centre
- B.C. permit numbers rise while Alberta’s fall
- Trades lack LEED understanding
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- SNC-Lavalin partners with Russian bank to form engineering company
- Work continues on Pearl Condos in Toronto
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- Government should be more flexible with stimulus project deadline, outgoing ORBA president says
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- U.S. manufacturing employment up, but construction losses continue
- Peterborough Utilities unveils plan for 10-megawatt wind farm
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| ALEX’S ECONOMICS BLOG |
Reed Construction Data Chief Economist Alex Carrick discusses current developments in the North American economic environment with emphasis on the construction industry.
- A review of some global economic and policy expectations for 2010 (February 3, 2010)
- Synopsis of RCD’s webinar on the economic and construction outlooks (January 28, 2010)
- Increasing signs of world and U.S. economies getting back on track (January 28, 2010)
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| PROJECT NEWS BRIEFS |
Updates on Canadian construction projects from Reed Construction Data’s research team. More
- Rounthwaite Dick & Hadley Architects begin work on arena plans for Flamborough, Ontario (Aug 17, 2009)
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- Designs for new York Region District School Board building features energy efficiency (Jun 23, 2009)
- IPC Energy considers Milford location for future wind farm (May 22, 2009)
- Waterloo partnership seeks LEED Silver for West Side Family YMCA and District Library (May 22, 2009)
