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September 1, 2008

Foundation work underway on the Bear Mountain wind farm in British Columbia

The installation of the turbines and commercial production of electricity are scheduled for 2009.

August 27, 2008

Vancouver Island construction companies feeling the pinch from rising B.C. Ferries costs

The construction industry on Vancouver Island is being hit hard by rapid increases in B.C. Ferries fares, while escalating costs are contributing to an increase in the cost of living in small island communities.

August 18, 2008

Canadian construction industry steels against rising rebar prices

Steel prices generally are being driven by demand for construction materials as China, India and Russia ramp up building of infrastructure and productive capacity.

August 6, 2008

KWH Contractors of British Columbia win Suncor contract

KWH Contractors of Delta, B.C. have been awarded a contract for a structural steel modular construction project at Suncor’s Voyageur expansion program in Fort McMurray, Alberta.

July 9, 2008

Supermétal Structures wins structural steel contract for Penny Lane Towers

Structural steel manufacturer Supermétal Structures Inc. of Saint-Romuald, Quebec will manufacture and install the structure of Eight Avenue Place in Calgary, better known as Penny Lane Towers, for EllisDon Construction.

June 30, 2008

Ultra high-performance concrete formulation extends material’s limits

When I first wrote about ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) almost seven years ago, it was a new product that had grown out of a concept that was, itself, little more than a decade old.

June 25, 2008

Crews ready the rebar at Trout Lake ice rink project

Bird Construction Company (construction manager), Walter Francl Architect Inc. (architect) and Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg (landscape architect) are all involved in the Trout Lake Olympic ice rink project.

June 23, 2008

Ferrous metallurgy takes leap forward

As the concept of sustainability has grown in importance in the construction industry, more and more scientists are working in fields that seem pretty esoteric to most of us, writes Daily Commercial News columnist Korky Koroluk.

June 9, 2008

On the job with Wesbridge Steelworks’ ‘support staff’

Wesbridge Steelworks workers manoeuvre a steel girder into place as part of a structural replacement project at a Burnaby office building.

June 9, 2008

Canadian Institute of Steel Construction offers seismic-design courses

The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) recently offered a series of commercial building and seismic-design courses across the country to help identify the best way to use steel to provide greater earthquake resistance in buildings up to 10 storeys tall.

June 25, 2007

Raising the bar code for efficient tracking sys

Bar codes have been used successfully as a means of identifying structural components being manufactured and delivered to a job site. New bar coding systems, however, are building on that success.

June 25, 2007

Corrugated steel wall system beats plywood under quake conditions

A new shear wall system developed in California uses simple corrugated steel panels screwed onto galvanized steel studs to create a structure that provides about three times the strength of plywood sheathed panels and about twice the strength of proprietary sheet metal backed panels.

June 25, 2007

Phenomenal amount of steel used in centre

To say that Nanaimo’s downtown Vancouver Island Conference Centre, set to be completed by late spring next year, used a ton of structural steel is to understate by about 849 tons.

June 25, 2007

Airport's new fire institute highlights green building

The recently-opened 2,360-square-metre Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute at Lester B. Pearson International Airport has won a Green Buildings Award of Excellence from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (Ontario Region).

June 25, 2007

Cable net wall gives illusion of transparency

Cable net walls are deceptively simple structures that employ tensioned steel cables as the primary structural element. The cables are arranged in a grid, then fastened with clamps or “nodes” where the cables cross.

June 25, 2007

Canadian firm honoured for participation in U.S. memorial

Three, free-standing, 270-foot-high stainless steel arcs that commemorate the members of the United States Air Force has been recognized with a Project Outside of Ontario Award of Excellence from the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (Ontario Region).

June 25, 2007

Vanbots celebrates opening at ROM

Vanbots Construction Corp. celebrated the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum at sunset last Wednesday with clients and the local design and construction community.

June 25, 2007

Steel is the most recycled material on earth

You don’t have to tell anyone in the steel industry about the need to recycle. They’ve been on board before it was even trendy to go green.

June 25, 2007

Seismic standards for steel frames to be reconciled

The 2005 National Building Code of Canada introduced substantial technical changes over the previous edition, including a new subsection on Earthquake Load and Effects. The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) addressed the same seismic concerns through standard CAN/CSA-S16-01 but with slightly different terminology.

June 25, 2007

Oborowsky to take over reins of steel construction institute

Donald Oborowsky may be sitting at the helm of one of Canada’s largest steel fabricators, but he hasn’t lost sight of his roots.

June 25, 2007

Awards showcase innovative use of steel

The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Alberta awards for 2007 have showcased four winning projects that feature innovative use of steel. One of the most striking projects was the University of Lethbridge’s new centre for Sports and Wellness, which utilizes a new design for a steel open-span roof.

June 25, 2007

"We're the envy of the other regions right now"

The Western regions of B.C., Alberta and Central Canada of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction are surpassing other parts of Canada, says Peter Timler, the CISC’s Western regional executive director. “We are the envy of the other regions right now,” he says, of the association’s six Canadian regions.

June 25, 2007

Rustic Steel barns hub of community activity

From the highway, the series of long, low red barns, rustic in their traditional design, seem like just another element of this agricultural community were wide-open fields, browsing livestock, and roadside stands with homegrown goods are a sharp contrast to metropolitan Vancouver only a few hours away.

June 25, 2007

Building around planes, trains, ferries and automobiles can be a logistical nightmare

David Powley, owner of Power Steel, said the job of building a pedestrian walkway over railway tracks in Whistler, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics, ranked in the top three in degree of difficulty, up there with building toll booths at BC Ferries’ Tsawwassen terminal and the Pier “C” domestic terminal at Vancouver International Airport.

June 25, 2007

JDG Construction recycling used steel buildings

The ad for what Joe Gvozdanovich’s company does might read something like this – “For sale, one used, but still good, steel building. We deliver.”