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June 24, 2009

$10 million steel dragon makes a grand entrance in Chilliwack, British Columbia

After almost two years of extensive work, British Columbia's Kevin Stone has unveiled one of his most ambitious projects, a stainless steel rendering of the Chinese Imperial Water Dragon. The 10-metre long sculpture took Stone 12,000 hours to make and is valued at $10 million.

June 24, 2009

Canadian Institute of Steel Construction's outgoing president has witnessed huge changes

When Mike Gilmor joined the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) in 1970, the Prime Minister of Canada was Pierre Trudeau, and Layla, by Derek and the Dominoes topped the year’s music chart. The steel industry has also changed significantly since then.

June 22, 2009

Wood and steel are a unique marriage at skating oval for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics

Wood is the most prominent feature of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games speed skating oval, but steel trusses provide its structural strength.

June 15, 2009

British Columbia ironworkers trying to influence tendering process

The union representing workers in B.C.’s steel fabrication industry wants the contract to build the new retractable roof at B.C. place stadium to be awarded to a local company.

June 1, 2009

SG Blocks finds new life for decommissioned cargo containers

Since 2006 St. Louis, Missouri-based SG Blocks LLC has been converting decommissioned 8,000-pound steel cargo containers into framing systems for commercial, industrial, military and residential structures.

May 11, 2009

Bird Construction official reflects on building challenges at Trout Lake Ice Arena

To an experienced builder, constructing your typical arena is generally straightforward. But the new $14 million Trout Lake Ice Arena in east Vancouver is anything but typical.

May 11, 2009

Collavino Construction Group’s crew puts in overtime on Freedom Tower

Renzo Collavino is far from home, deep in a 16-acre hole at what was and what will be one of New York’s most famous landmarks.

April 29, 2009

Alberta steel projects take centre stage at gala

Alberta’s best steel projects stole the spotlight at the 2009 Alberta Steel Design Awards of Excellence.

April 22, 2009

Vancouver’s Sunset Community Centre wins 2009 Tilt-Up Achievement Award

Sunset Community Centre in Vancouver and the North Campus Academic and Student Service building of the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto were among the winners of the 2009 Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) Tilt-Up Achievement Awards.

April 13, 2009

Composite fibres set to bring change to bridge building technology

Composite materials have been with us for a long time.

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.”