Ontario Unveils Guiding Principles to Reopen the Province
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TORONTO —
The Ontario government released
A Framework for Reopening our Province
, which outlines the criteria Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health and health experts will use to advise the government on the loosening of emergency measures, as well as guiding principles for the safe, gradual reopening of businesses, services and public spaces. The framework also provides details of an outreach strategy, led by the Ontario Jobs and Recovery Committee, to help inform the restart of the provincial economy.
Details were provided by Premier Doug Ford, Rod Phillips, Minister of Finance, Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, and Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health.
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The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Construction Industry: A Reference Guide To The Changed Landscape
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In these unprecedented times, access to current information is crucial to ensuring your safety and making informed business decisions. This is particularly the case in relation to essential services, like construction, which continue to operate through the COVID-19 pandemic. In this bulletin we provide a reference guide to the changed construction landscape that COVID-19 has effected through consideration of the following six subjects.
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BLT Construction Services
builds field hospitals to help fight COVID-19 crisis
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BLT Construction Services has built an 89-bed facility for COVID-19 patients at the Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ont. and an 80-bed temporary hospital at Trillium Health’s Mississauga Hospital.
The temporary facility features negative air pressure, oxygen lines, a mechanical system for heating and cooling and a raised steel floor on pedestals.
Waddell, the director in charge of both contracts, says the Burlington field hospital took five days to deliver and another nine to assemble after the contract was signed.
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Builders impacted by COVID-19 shift gears to aid in plexiglass contracts
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BMI Construction is one of several contractors hired to install the protectors in grocery stores across the province — landing about 300 stores contracts in Ontario.
Brendon Watts, BMI’s construction manager, says at the beginning of the outbreak, BMI started closing its construction projects as a health and safety precaution and focussed on rollouts of the plexiglass screen protectors.
“It was great because it kept our guys working,” says Watts, who employed a crew of about 20 carpenters from the Carpenters’ Union Local 27 in Toronto for the installations.
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Virtual Day of Mourning ceremony reinforces need for safer workplaces during pandemic
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The global pandemic will make us stronger by making all workplaces safer.
That was the message from the Ottawa and District Labour Council’s virtual Day of Mourning ceremony held April 28 to honour those killed, injured or made ill at the workplace.
A number of ceremonies across the country were moved online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ceremonies in the nation’s capital are typically held at Vincent Massey Park and at the Canadian Building Trades Monument located in Major’s Hill Park. The virtual event featured a number of speakers including Robert Kucheran, chairman of Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) and international vice-president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, and Sean McKenny, president of the Ottawa and District Labour Council. A moment of silence was also observed.
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Stantec to provide technical advisory services for $4.6 billion Hurontario LRT project
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Metrolinx and Infrastructure Ontario (IO) have selected Stantec to provide technical advisory services for the $4.6 billion Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) project to connect Mississauga and Brampton.
The Hurontario LRT will run 18 kilometres of service from the Port Credit GO regional rail station near Lake Ontario to the Brampton Gateway Terminal, and include 19 stops along the way. The project also encompasses an operations, maintenance, and storage facility located at Highway 407.
As lead technical advisor, Stantec will provide design, construction, and commissioning oversight services to ensure the successful delivery of the project from groundbreaking to ribbon cutting, Stantec says in a statement. Design review services on this project have already commenced and are proceeding under Ontario’s definition of allowable construction projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Economy Under COVID-19: Notes from the Trenches - April 23, 2020
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There are currently two crises underway simultaneously. The advance of the novel coronavirus is taking a terrible toll in terms of physical and emotional well-being. At the same time, job losses resulting from ‘social distancing’ are sending the economy into a tailspin. To fight on both fronts, governments are advancing rescue packages of never-seen-before dimensions. Every day, the tremendous number of factors in play reconfigure in a new way. These ‘from the trenches’ notes attempt to shed some light along a murky pathway.
- According to CBRE, there are seven major wholesale data center markets in the U.S. By far the biggest is in northern Virginia, with the community of Ashburn in Loudoun County (near Dulles Airport) at its core. The other six, from east to west, are Tri-state New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Phoenix and Silicon Valley. Prior to the pandemic, they were viewed as being recession-proof. That assertion is likely to be proven true many times over in this current coronavirus crisis.
- The same won’t be said for call centers, though. Data centers are full of computer equipment knows as servers. Call centers are chock full of people in cubicles. Who knew that mingling with co-workers would one day become so dangerous? Call center employees are upset about their working conditions and want to operate from home.
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TCA Resources on COVID-19
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To access TCA dedicated Covid-19 Updates,
click here
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