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August 6, 2008

Quebec mandates quality-based selection for provincial

In a groundbreaking move, Quebec has introduced a regulation that will require provincial agencies to use qualifications-based selection (QBS) to retain consulting engineers and architects.

August 4, 2008

Bilfinger Berger Canada files suit against Metro Vancouver over Capilano-Seymour project

Metro Vancouver hired Bilfinger Berger Canada (BBC) Inc. in 2004 to construct twin tunnels with a combined length of 14.2 kilometres for the Capilano-Seymour water filtration project. BBC suspended work on the $100 million project in January 2008, due to concerns about the safety of underground workers.

July 28, 2008

Preparations begin for removal of buried Ontario boring machine

McNally Construction and Aecon Group, working as a joint venture, have begun preparations to remove the $5-million tunnel boring machine that has been trapped underground.

June 30, 2008

Association of Canadian Engineering Companies (ACEC) plans video to promote consulting engineering careers

The Association of Canadian Engineering Companies (ACEC) will spend more than $300,000 to produce a video illustrating that consulting engineering is “an exciting and rewarding” career choice and to implement a communications plan to deliver that message to students.

June 29, 2008

Fuel Management: Ten ways for businesses to cut fuel costs

Any business can improve its fuel efficiency. It starts with a commitment from the head office and cooperation to your people on the road and at the job sites. More and more companies are making changes in their operating practices to cut costs now and to be prepared for even higher costs in the future, writes Jack Lee.

June 25, 2008

Labour groups oppose WorkSafeBC’s proposed changes to tunnel safety regulations

Two groups representing unionized construction workers in British Columbia are voicing their opposition to proposed changes to safety regulations for tunneling.

June 18, 2008

Caribbean markets offer opportunities for Canadian construction industry

The Caribbean is not just a place for sunny vacations but also a destination of work opportunities for the Canadian construction industry, according to Export Development Canada (EDC).

June 18, 2008

Terminated Metro Vancouver contract leaves Filipino tunnel workers in limbo

Temporary foreign workers who were hired to work on a drinking-water project in North Vancouver have been left hanging for months without any source of income, after the contractor was terminated.

June 16, 2008

Construction employment approaches peak in British Columbia

Construction employment in B.C. is reaching a peak, expanding more rapidly than all other provinces, while oilsands development in Alberta is becoming the most important non-residential construction activity.

June 2, 2008

Metro Vancouver plans to sue Bilfinger Berger over delayed Seymour-Capilano filtration project

Metro Vancouver recently terminated the contract with Bilfinger Berger Canada Inc., a Germany-based contractor. The company was supposed to construct two tunnels for the Seymour-Capilano filtration project.

September 25, 2006

Cross border business guide to be updated

When it comes to complex issues like cross-border business, the Canadian Construction Association will look to those who know the subject best — its own members.

September 25, 2006

Largest tunnel project in decades

Last year’s Port of Vancouver container strike by truckers and this year’s acute shortage of manpower in the construction industry have combined to stall the 2008 completion date of the new $600 million Seymour-Capilano Filtration Project (SCFP).

September 25, 2006

Transfer of intellectual property rights concerns design industry

Ontario’s design industry plans to take Infrastructure Ontario “up on its offer” to discuss a controversial proposal that would require transfer of intellectual property by project bidders.

September 25, 2006

Bridge a quandary

Oh dear, what can the matter be, this old bridge is under capacity, what to do is a big quandary, will a decision be made?

September 25, 2006

Branch supports APEGBC Foundation

APEGBC’s Sea to Sky Branch has donated $3,000 to the APEGBC Foundation to fund its scholarships.

September 25, 2006

APEGBC is looking to the future

For the APEGBC’s new chairman, public safety and professional standards go hand in hand, whether he’s reflecting on the associations past successes or looking forward to his upcoming term.

September 25, 2006

BC's demand for engineers not being met

It’s a fairly old story in the construction industry, the one about the university-trained immigrant engineer who can’t get a job in B.C. and is working for minimum wage at something else.

September 25, 2006

Mind your 3Ps and Qs: new course offered

">The University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business plans to offer courses in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) — the first of their kind in Canada — by as early as 2007, says Tom Ross, director of Sauder’s Phelps Centre for the Study of Government and Business.

September 25, 2006

Going where most engineers fear to tread

The Case of The Boy Who Plunged Down An Elevator Shaft riveted Albertans a couple of years ago.

September 25, 2006

Aerospace Centre flies past constraints

A new aerospace centre will give students a chance to reach for the skies, thanks to some ground-level engineering know-how.

September 25, 2006

Living Shangri-La has Vancouver's Heaviest Tower

The core needed to support Vancouver’s tallest downtown building – the Living Shangri-La hotel/private residential complex – had to be excavated to twice the normal depth of other buildings, says the geo-technical engineer on the excavation project.

September 25, 2006

Golden Ears more than just a bridge

The Golden Ears Bridge will alleviate traffic woes between Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. But in order to get the bridge across the Fraser River and connecting those communities, Translink and its construction partners had to surmount a series of engineering problems.