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YCL Pub Night Event - SOLD OUT! November 14, 2024
TCA Annual Christmas Luncheon - REGISTER NOW December 6, 2024
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Marketing and Promotion
Advertising through TCA’s numerous print and digital platforms is a great way to cost-effectively promote your business and services to your specific target market while extending your industry reach.
Free display opportunity at TCA Annual Members’ Day and event sponsorships are also available to give your business and brand more exposure.
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Strong support for P3s across regions, politics and generations
Canadians are increasingly pessimistic about the future state of the country’s infrastructure, given the country’s booming population and staggering demands for new housing, a new survey warns. Sixty-three per cent are also not confident governments alone can cover the costs of building and maintaining new and upgraded infrastructure required to handle that growth without raising taxes. The results of the poll, conducted by Abacus Data in late September on behalf of The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP), were released at P3 2024, Canada’s Infrastructure Conference in front of close to 900 Canadian and international delegates.
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Phase II of Gardiner Expressway Construction Set to Begin Ahead of Schedule
The Ontario government is marking the start of the second phase of construction on the Gardiner Expressway four months ahead of schedule. The early milestone is the result of the government’s $73 million investment in the project on the condition that construction work may be allowed to proceed 24/7.
With two eastbound lanes on the Gardiner Expressway now rehabilitated and reopened, crews will begin the demolition and reconstruction of two centre lanes, before completing work on the remaining two westbound lanes.
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Gower appointed president at PCL Construction
Chris Gower is the new president and chief executive officer of the PCL family of companies. The ninth president in the company’s 118-year history, Gower brings nearly three decades of experience with PCL to his new role.
Advancing from the role of deputy CEO, he has previously served as the company’s chief operating officer, overseeing PCL’s building operations in Canada, the United States and Australia, and had guided numerous landmark projects across North America. He also played an instrumental role in leading the company’s expansion into the solar energy market.
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Development at Hamilton airport breaks ground
Construction plans for a new, $15-million, 100,000-square-foot facility at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport have been unveiled. The multi-use, fixed-base operator (FBO) facility will be located at the airport’s northeast end and will feature three separate state-of-the-art hangars, designed to incorporate an array of services from a lounge and conference room to a second-floor observation deck for viewing aircraft arrivals and departures.
The facility will also have access to the airfield through Hamilton International’s newest taxiway, Taxiway Foxtrot, and road access via a recently constructed roadway, Aviation Drive.
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Canada has lots to learn from Sweden’s ‘Timber City’
Over a span of several decades Växjö, a small city in southern Sweden, has grown a reputation as “a living research area” to test different construction materials and building solutions. Wood designed buildings have been a major part of the movement which is why the municipality of 100,000 residents has been nicknamed Timber City, Sweden, a hefty moniker in a country known as a world leader in wood construction.
Fredrik Lindblad, who works at Växjö’s Linnaeus University in institutional management focusing on forestry, wood products and housing, said the city has come a long way from its environmental roots in the 1970s.
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CarbonStar standard launched to help concrete decarbonization efforts
The Smart Surfaces Coalition, CSA Group, the World Cement Association, and the American Public Health Association recently announced the introduction of CarbonStar, a new binational standard to quantify the carbon impact of concrete.
Modelled on the Energy Star program, the cross-listed standard, CSA/ANSI R118:2024, CarbonStar: Concrete Carbon Intensity Quantification and Verification, provides a simple, yet rigorous way to compare the embodied carbon in concrete, the most-used building material on the planet. Estimates suggest the material is responsible for eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Strickland outlines ‘game-changing’ wage requirements in new tax credits regime
A proposed new wave of green technology projects that could soon be launched across Canada is being called a game-changer for unionized ICI construction workers. But Canada’s Building Trades Unions executive director Sean Strickland says the building trades will have to be vigilant to protect their hard-won rights including prevailing-wage requirements contained in enabling legislation.
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Waterloo researchers use AR and VR for 3D bridge inspections
Research engineers at the University of Waterloo have published a paper documenting their use of AR, VR and AI to inspect civil infrastructure such as bridges and enable close collaboration between teams of inspectors onsite and off site.
Waterloo professor Chul Min Yeum and his colleagues have developed a system called the Smart Infrastructure Metaverse (SIM) that allows the two teams of inspectors to view the same hologram depicting structural deficiencies such as spalling.
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TCA Member Spotlight
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Advertise in Our Weekly Bulletin
Advertise your products and service in TCA's Weekly E-Connect bulletin. This email blast is sent to the members on Tuesday morning of each week. Please visit our website, or contact Vishawn Thompson for details.
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Upcoming Industry events
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Tickets Are Over 80% SOLD!
TCA 80th Annual Christmas Luncheon - Friday, December 6
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Don't miss out on the TCA 80th Annual Christmas Luncheon happening on Friday, December 6, 2024. Secure your spot now before it’s too late!
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Exclusive Discount for TCA Members on publishing Certificates of Substantial Performance (CSPs) in the Daily Commercial News (DCN)! | | |
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All certificates and notices published in the Daily Commercial News (DCN) are a flat fee of $300 (plus tax). Special Affinity Pricing of $200 per certificate is available to all ConstructConnect subscribers and TCA members. | |
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