Water and Wastewater/Sewer and Watermain

October 13, 2008

ATCO Water will design, build and operate water, wastewater infrastructure projects

The ATCO Group has launched a new company, ATCO Water, which will focus on designing, building and operating water and wastewater infrastructure and facilities for both industry and municipalities.

October 8, 2008

Developer begins to pick up the pieces after Quattro condominium fire

Charan Sethi, owner of Tien Sher Development Group Inc., is picking up the pieces after part of Surrey’s largest multi-phase condominium burnt to the ground while still under construction.

October 6, 2008

Treatment of foreign workers should be a wake-up call for Canadian people

This letter is about the story, Unpaid foreign workers walk off the job at Golden Ears Bridge project, which appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on Sept. 24.

September 29, 2008

CCA plans break with coalition lobby on apprenticeships

The Canadian Construction Association (CCA) says it will look beyond unified lobbying efforts to strengthen Canada’s college apprenticeship system once the federal election ends.

September 29, 2008

Korky Koroluk: Infrastructure investment is the foundation of Canada’s competitiveness

The present federal election campaign was only two days old when I saw statements from construction industry groups emphasizing the importance of more money for infrastructure repair, replacement and expansion.

September 29, 2008

City of Vancouver construction crews dig up some antiques

City of Vancouver construction crews are replacing the 100-year-old watermains along West 12th Avenue, between Alberta and Quebec.

September 24, 2008

Vancouver chooses Rubbersidewalk as green solution to city’s paving challenges

Vancouver’s inventory of park and boulevard trees, valued at $500 million, is challenging sidewalk construction crews to find new and better ways to pave over roots.

September 17, 2008

Wal-Mart transforms urban Vancouver building into newest retail location

The Grandview Highway Wal-Mart in Vancouver is scheduled to open in 2009 and will be the first store that the company has not owned, but renovated, in Canada.

September 15, 2008

Fatality during early stages of Alberta oilsands project start-up

A 47-year-old contractor died on a construction site at an oilsands project in northern Alberta after being trapped underwater in an excavator.