CCA Updates
Lena Hogarth
Canada’s Top Growing Companies 2021
Congratulations to CCA Members Rayner Construction Services, Ryan Murphy Construction and Zoom Paining for landing on the Globe And Mail Canada’s Top Growing Companies list! The Globe & Mail released the third annual Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies. Among the 448 businesses on the list, there are four breweries, six insurance brokers, five apparel designers (four for humans, one for dogs) and one maker of robots. Regardless of where they’re located, what they make or whether they’ve been operating for five years or two decades, all these companies have one thing in common: Each managed to...
Calgary construction industry booming during pandemic
via CTV News Home improvement and construction projects are proving to be popular in Calgary during the pandemic. The first eight months of 2021 have seen $4.2 billion worth of construction in Calgary, nearly double the $2.2 billion seen over the same period a year earlier. The number of building permits is also up 29 per cent, year-over-year, according to data released Monday. “In 2020, we experienced a permit value decline,” said Brenda Desjardins, director of Calgary Building Services. “However, during the pandemic, Calgarians have been investing in home improvement projects, such as installing hot tubs, garages, swimming pools, retaining...
Three tips to keep your business insurance effective
Three tips to keep your business insurance effective It’s a well-known adage that the worst time to review your insurance policy is when you need it. Here are three tips to make sure your coverage – and your premiums – perform the best for you now, during and after an event. Tip #1: Review your existing insurance policy The biggest step you can take to reduce your losses and get back to business after an interruption is to have an up-to-date insurance policy. It is important to get help analyzing your coverage for specific loss scenarios, review limits and co-insurance...
VAN BUREN: It’s time to focus on the elephant in the (economic recovery) room
Via Calgary Sun It is critical that investments in infrastructure continue and a skilled workforce is an important part of the equation. Mary Van Buren, president of the Canadian Construction Association. PHOTO BY HANDOUT /Postmedia As the weeks of this short, mostly summertime, election campaign slipped by, it was frustrating to see pressing and important conversations being derailed as campaigns focused on much less fundamental matters. The essential question of Canada’s economic recovery — the issue that the prime minister cited as the basis for an early election call — got little attention as other issues ate up space in newspaper columns...
Recruitment underway for the new Alberta Board of Skilled Trades
Please look at this application as it pertains to an advisory board for the Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship It is imperative that well qualified industry representatives are involved in this as it will impact the future our these programs which are so important to our industry. Please apply or share with those that you believe would be great candidates for this important role Thank you We would like to advise you that recruitment is underway for the new Alberta Board of Skilled Trades. The Alberta Board of Skilled Trades will be established when the provincial Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship...
CCA Stampede Postponement
To our CCA members, Since July and the lifting of restrictions many of us got a welcome taste of the life, activities and connections that we had all been missing since COVID lockdowns began and none were happier to be able to take these steps back into life as we knew it, than all of us all here at CCA. We always knew that in planning events once again there was a chance that circumstances would change but our belief was that we needed to make attempts to move forward, albeit carefully and as we feared, this has...
High-impact ways to boost efficiency in your business
via BDC What is operational efficiency? Businesses in any industry can take surprisingly simple steps to reduce waste and make customers and employees happier, all while improving profits Imagine everything runs smoothly in your business. Your products and services are always top quality and on time. Your customers love you, and your employees are motivated and engaged. Sounds amazing, right? Such a utopia is within reach with the help of operational efficiency. What is operational efficiency? Operating efficiently means using resources like time, people, equipment, inventory and money in an optimized way to serve the business. Efficient companies are leaner,...
Accelerating Building Retrofits in Calgary and Edmonton
via Alberta Ecotrust ALBERTA ECOTRUST PILOT PROJECT IS ACCELERATING BUILDING RETROFITS IN CALGARY AND EDMONTON In Calgary and Edmonton, the building stock accounts for 40 to 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve meaningful emissions reductions and address our current climate crisis, we need to reduce energy use in our building sector. Deep energy retrofits of our current building stock need to be done quickly and at scale. Traditional auditing processes can be time-consuming and expensive, making it difficult for building owners to retrofit their buildings. To help identify energy efficiency improvements in commercial buildings faster, digitized approaches can...
You are invited to PCL’s Charity Street Hockey Tournament in support of the United Way
You are invited to PCL’s Charity Street Hockey Tournament in support of the United Way on Friday October 8, 2021, from 1 – 6 p.m. This is not a highly competitive tournament and is not for high-performance athletes like me. This tournament is about coming together, strengthening the community, supporting the United Way, and having fun. It will be a three-on-three round-robin tournament at our Special Projects Office parking lot (1565 – 27 Avenue NE). Teams will need at least six players and a maximum of 8 players per team. All players will be required to bring their own gear....
REGGIN Industries is proud to announce the launch of our NEW website
REGGIN Industries is proud to announce the launch of our NEW website. As a local company that has been providing custom specialty metal fabrication for over 30 years, we would like to say thank you to those who have supported us. We encourage you to visit our new website to learn more about existing projects & capabilities along with our NEW product line & custom fabrication options! View New Website!