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March 2022 News
March 2022
LGBTQ2+ National Monument Design Unveiled
Canadian Architect - A design called "Thunderhead," by a team including contributors from Winnipeg firm Public City, has been selected for construction in Ottawa. The LGBT Purge Fund has unveiled “Thunderhead” as the winning proposal for the LGBTQ2+ National Monument. The concept is conceived by a Winnipeg-based team led by Liz Wreford, Peter Sampson and Taylor LaRocque of Public City, with artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan...
March 2022
“Who Wants to Be an Electrician? We’ll Pay!” Says Ontario
Electrical Business - Ontario is investing more than $13 million to provide free training and paid electrician apprenticeships for more than 2500 people across the province who are unemployed “or looking to earn bigger paychecks”. “When you have a job as an electrician, you have an in-demand job for life,” said Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development. “I continue to hear from students and parents...
March 2022
Construction Demand in Ontario Sees Sustained Demand Through 2026
DataBid - Labour market challenges could stay with us across Ontario as unemployment rates return to pre-pandemic lows, and construction demand in the residential and commercial sectors is sustained through at least 2026. An article in Yahoo!finance, states that BuildForce Canada published its 2022-2027 Construction and Maintenance Looking Forward report for the province recently and focused on a six-year horizon for provincial labour market...
March 2022
Canada’s Largest Net-Zero Energy Institutional Building Produces More Electricity Than It Uses
Forbes - Mohawk College’s Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation in Hamilton, Ontario, is Canada’s largest net-zero energy institutional facility and the first in the country to be awarded Zero Carbon Building – Design and Performance certification from the Canada Green Building Council, positioning it as a hub for carbon-neutral technologies and operations. A joint venture by mcCallumSather and B+H Architects...
March 2022
Canada to Get First-of-Its-Kind 3D Printed Housing Project in Leamington, Ontario
itbusiness.ca - Invest WindsorEssex (IWE), the economic development organization for the Windsor-Essex region of Ontario, has showcased the design of a 3D printed home in virtual reality as part of a first-of-its-kind in Canada housing project led by Habitat for Humanity Windsor-Essex and in partnership with the University of Windsor. Habitat for Humanity Windsor-Essex is a non-profit organization...
March 2022
How Digital Transformation is Rebuilding the Construction Industry
eWeek - Construction companies were on the frontline during the pandemic, with the urgent need for development of medical facilities and other essential infrastructure. But for an industry that relies heavily on manual labor and on-site workers, the sudden site closures, new safety measures, and need for more remote employees have presented significant challenges. Research suggests that the global construction sector decreased by 3.1% in 2020...
March 2022
Value of Building Permits Falls in January: StatsCan
Canadian Contractor - The total value of building permits decreased 8.8% to $10.1 billion in January. The residential sector fell 11.6% to $6.7 billion, while the non-residential sector declined 2.7% to $3.4 billion. On a constant dollar basis (2012=100) the total value of building permits declined 8.2%. Residential sector pulled down by multi-family building intentions. The majority of the drop in the residential sector was in the multi-family component (-18.5%)...
March 2022
Women in Construction Week Looks to Put the Screws to Stereotypes
BarrieToday - According to BuildForce Canada, in 2020 there were approximately 67,900 women employed in Ontario’s construction industry, of which 23 per cent worked on-site — directly on construction projects — while the remaining 77 per cent worked off-site, primarily in administrative and management-related occupations. Of the 409,400 tradespeople employed in the industry, women made up only four per cent. The first full week in March...
March 2022
These Solar Panels Create Clean Water in the Desert
Interesting Engineering - Most of the energy that hits a solar panel is wasted. Energy technology researcher Peng Wang told IE that less than 20 percent of the energy that hits a solar panel gets turned into electricity. The rest is turned into heat, which can cause the panel to become even less efficient. Researchers have spent decades figuring out how to squeeze more electricity out of solar panels, coming up with solutions like harvesting energy from more colors of light...
March 2022
Calgary Builders Go Green!
NextHome - Owning a home comes with big responsibilities – one of the biggest being monthly utility bills. With this winter’s bitter cold snap, your upcoming bill might come with a bit of sticker shock. Outright electrocution in some cases. Even more worrisome is that electricity prices have been going up for some time. According to energy comparison website energyrates.ca, Alberta’s energy prices have increased by 34 per cent between November 2020 and 2021...
March 2022
How to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day in 2022
O.C.Tanner - If you have a great corporate culture, you know it’s important to recognize and appreciate your employees all year long, but it’s especially important to make plans to celebrate them on Employee Appreciation Day. National Employee Appreciation Day is a special day, once a year, when top companies everywhere appreciate employees for all they contribute to the organization’s success. Employee Appreciation Day 2022 falls on March 4...