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Calgary’s construction demand stayed strong in first half of 2022
via Calgary Herald Calgary building permit values topped $3 billion in the first half of 2022, as construction demand across the city remained consistent with last year’s record pace. City officials processed almost 5,000 development permit applications and more than 11,000 building permits totalling $3.01 billion through June, compared with $3.32 billion a year earlier. “Developers and builders are investing more in present-day Calgary, which helps to position our city and economy for a successful future,” Stuart Dalgleish, planning and development general manager, said in a news release. Permits for new home construction were up nine per cent from a...
Calgary’s construction demand stayed strong in first half of 2022
via Calgary Herald Calgary building permit values topped $3 billion in the first half of 2022, as construction demand across the city remained consistent with last year’s record pace. City officials processed almost 5,000 development permit applications and more than 11,000 building permits totalling $3.01 billion through June, compared with $3.32 billion a year earlier. “Developers and builders are investing more in present-day Calgary, which helps to position our city and economy for a successful future,” Stuart Dalgleish, planning and development general manager, said in a news release. Permits for new home construction were up nine per cent from a...
Calgary Construction Association Responds to Green Line LRT Shortlist
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- August 2, 2022 For months now, the CCA has raised concerns about the disproportionate involvement and influence of foreign consortiums and the absence of Calgary/Alberta based builders from the development of the Green Line LRT project. With this announcement and the effective dismissal of others who represented stronger local involvement our position is unchanged. The local sub contractor and supplier profile on this project was always the same so any comments being made in this regard are moot. Projects and delivery models of this nature are notoriously challenging and those who end up contracted with non-local based...
2 consortiums shortlisted for 1st phase of Green Line LRT project
via Global News by Paula Tran & Adam MacVicar Two groups of companies have been shortlisted to help build phase one of Calgary’s Green Line LRT, the city of Calgary announced Friday. Bow Transit Connectors and City Link Partners were chosen to move onto the request for proposal (RFP) process, where they will compete to become development partners of the project. Calgary Green Line 2022. CEO of the Green Line project, Darshpreet Bhatti, said the announcement is a “very big milestone” for the project. Phase one will build the 18-kilometre stretch of the Green Line, which the city said is...
CCA Report: Standard Practices Tour
via Alberta Construction Association CCA President Mary Van Buren and Senior Vice President Rod Gilbert, supported by National Advisory Council Chairs and CCA Chair Brendan Nobes, visited Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, St. John’s and Montreal in June to learn first-hand from members about their challenges with current procurement practices and project delivery methods. Thank you to our LCA partners – Donna Grant (Vancouver), David Johnson (Edmonton), Chris Lorenc (Manitoba), Ron Hambley (Winnipeg), Pierre Hamel (Quebec) and Rhonda Neary (Newfoundland & Labrador) for your support in this engagement initiative! Objective The Standard Practices tour was a fact-finding mission on the part of CCA to collect information on the top...
Province cancels public-private partnership strategy for Deerfoot Trail upgrades
via CBC News The Alberta government has cancelled plans to use a public-private partnership (P3) to help pay for improvements to Calgary’s Deerfoot Trail. (CBC) The Alberta government has decided to scrap the idea of using a public-private partnership to help pay for improvements to Deerfoot Trail in Calgary. Instead, it says it will carry out projects along the corridor in smaller pieces. The province says economic conditions have resulted in pricing volatility and historically high inflation in the construction industry. And that means a public-private partnership is not viable and won’t save taxpayers money. “We committed that we would only pursue...
Alberta pilot project connects workers with employers
via Journal of Commerce by ConstructConnect GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA — A tradesperson works on a housing project in Fort McMurray, Alta. A new pilot project is looking to connect more workers with employers as a critical shortage of skilled tradespeople looms for Alberta. With a massive worker deficit around the corner, the Alberta construction sector is implementing a new way to connect workers with employers. The province announced it will spend $3.2 million on a 33-month pilot project targeting the underemployed and the unemployed in the greater Edmonton area. The project will be a partnership with the Alberta Construction Association...
Talks ongoing, but no negotiations yet with CSEC on Calgary event centre project: city committee
via Global News by Adam MacVicar Work continues behind the scenes to revive a deal between the City of Calgary and the Calgary Flames ownership to build a replacement for the aging Saddledome. Members of the city’s event centre committee heard Monday that the third-party group brought on to help restart negotiations has made some headway, and has had discussions with the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corp. (CSEC). According to Stuart Dalgleish, the city’s general manager of planning and development, those conversations are working towards a potential path forward on a new agreement “that would work for both parties.” However, there have...
Buddy Up uses friendship to help prevent men from suffering in silence
via The Globe and Mail Mike Principalli, who started BuddyUp, a male suicide prevention program that asks men to start conversations with their friends about their mental health, in Calgary on June 17.TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Mike Principalli first learned about Buddy Up, a male suicide prevention program, during a Calgary Construction Association webinar early in the pandemic. As a safety manager, Mr. Principalli was keen to champion the program at his Calgary company. “It’s a broad stroke, but I think it’s pretty true for the construction industry that men are supposed to be stoic and not show or...
Calgary Construction Association raises concerns over retrofit goals in city’s climate strategy
via Global News by Adam MacVicar Calgary’s proposed Pathways to 2050 climate strategy sets out a goal of all new and existing buildings in the city to be net-zero in the next 30 years, but some members of the city’s construction industry are concerned about the scale of retrofitting every existing home and commercial building by 2050. According to the climate strategy, 57 per cent of Calgary’s overall emissions come from energy used to heat, cool and power residential, commercial and industrial buildings in the city. To reduce those emissions, the plan calls for the retrofitting of 19,000 homes and...