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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.
TCA Member Spotlight
Get your company in front of like-minded industry colleagues and grow your network and business opportunities! Click here, to learn more and to complete the application form.
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Commercial Real Estate Investment Review shows strong performance in Q2
Avison Young’s Greater Toronto Area Commercial Real Estate Investment Review, released recently, found in the second quarter of 2022, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) commercial real estate investment market repeated its strong first-quarter performance. The review indicates a 4.1 per cent average cap rate for all asset types GTA-wide – up 10 bps quarter-over-quarter; 8,162 of total acreage of first-half GTA ICI land sales (more than 99 per cent outside the city of Toronto); and 221 GTA-wide industrial asset sales, 33 per cent of the quarter’s total number of transactions.
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Job vacancies reach a new high as construction employment rebounds
Canadian employers were looking to fill more than a million open positions in June, as the number of employees receiving pay or benefits from their employer rose by 114,600, reports Statistics Canada. Job vacancies across the country rose slightly more than three per cent, bumping up by 32,200 positions to 1,037,900. Total labour demand reached a record high of nearly 17.7 million for the month, ticking 1.4 per cent higher than May, and up 9.4 per cent on a year-over-year basis.
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RFP issued for Toronto’s George Street revitalization project
The City of Toronto, in consultation with Infrastructure Ontario (IO), has invited two teams to respond to a request for proposals to design, build and finance the George Street Revitalization project.
The George Street Revitalization Project will replace Seaton House, owned and operated by the City of Toronto. The new development will act as a transformational catalyst to rejuvenate the George Street neighbourhood and historical Garden District. The project, led by the City of Toronto, will be delivered using Ontario’s P3 Design-Build-Finance delivery model.
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Brookfield Infrastructure signs deal with Intel to help fund semiconductor factory
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP has signed a deal with Intel Corp. to help build a semiconductor fabrication facility in Chandler, Ariz. Under the agreement, Brookfield Infrastructure will invest up to US$15 billion for a 49 per cent stake in Intel’s manufacturing expansion at its Ocotillo campus.
Intel will hold the remaining 51 per cent.
The deal follows a memorandum of understanding between Brookfield and Intel signed earlier this year to explore project finance options.
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Report explores better built-environment for long-term care homes
The University of Toronto (UofT) Centre for Design + Health Innovation released a new, comprehensive study, “Reimagining Long-Term Care Architecture in Post-Pandemic Ontario—and Beyond” that explores how the built environment can better support long-term care (LTC) communities. According to the report, supported by the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) and consulting firm Jacobs Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionate impacts within Ontario’s LTC sector, exposing many structural vulnerabilities within these congregate facilities. Unless steps are taken to update standards and modernize design guidelines to better align to current and emerging clinical approaches, such vulnerabilities will remain largely unresolved—even in newly built LTC homes.
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Collingwood Terminals to become boutique hotel, event spaces
After a multi-step bidding and selection process that kept council at arm’s length, Town of Collingwood staff are ready to recommend a developer for the Collingwood Terminals building. Streetcar Developments Inc. and Dream Unlimited Corp. submitted the top-ranked bid from a shortlist of three developers. Staff will be recommending the Streetcar/Dream proposal to council at a meeting on Aug. 18.
Details of any of the three proposals have been kept confidential, but the town and proponent released a joint news release stating the Streetcar/Dream plan is to reuse the Terminals by creating a full-service boutique hotel that includes restaurants and events spaces while highlighting the heritage attributes of the Terminals building.
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Construction labour relations course coming this fall
The Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS) has awarded a contract to develop, design and implement a new course focusing on construction labour relations fundamentals to Constructionlab Ltd. of London, Ont.
The aim is for the course to become an industry standard to engage, educate and train labour and management stakeholders in the unionized construction industry.
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EXP partners to complete concrete gravity dam project in Sudbury
EXP’s Earth & Environmental and Infrastructure groups worked in partnership with Cecchetto & Sons Ltd. to provide detailed design engineering services and construction quality assurance related to the design-build of a new concrete gravity dam to replace Vale’s Wabagishik Side Dams A and B in Sudbury, Ontario. The dams are located on a topographic low point on a separate bay upstream of the reservoir for Vale’s Wabagishik Power Plant on Ella Lake (Vermillion River).
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LADIES! LESS ALMOST ONE WEEK TO GO!
TCA's 3rd Annual Women's Golf Tournament | HURRY & Purchase Your Tickets Today and don't miss out
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There is still time to purchase tickets to TCA's 3rd Annual Women's Golf Tournament!
Join us on Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at the Angus Glen Golf Club - North Course for a fun-filled day of golf and a unique opportunity to connect and network with your industry peers, and for the first time, a full post golf dinner reception, plus more.
Register here now!
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TCA's 27th Annual Members' Day — Exhibitor Registration Ends Tomorrow (August 31th)
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TCA's 27th Annual Members' Day will be held in person on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at our Richmond Hill Office.
Members' Day offers a unique opportunity to network with key decision makers, grow your business, and most importantly, raise awareness about your company's product(s) / service(s).
Exhibitor Registration
The deadline for exhibitors to register and receive a spot to display your products and services for free is ends tomorrow (August 31, 2022). Please email Nazak Ghobadi, before the deadline to guarantee your spot.
Attend As a Guest
We invite you to come out and celebrate with us! Register as a guest here, and don’t miss out on this fun-filled day, ending with an outdoor barbecue.
We will be giving away amazing prizes and a chance to enter our lucky draws!
For more information click here, or please contact:
Email: nghobadi@tcaconnect.com | Phone: 416-499-4000, x4106
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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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Click on the image for more details.
**IMPORTANT: To apply the discount, please mention the offer at the time of order placement.**
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Faith Chen, Senior Manager, TCIC/Professional Development
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