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Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act – FAQs – Issue No. 2
Gowling WLG LLP has provided a Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act – FAQs – Issue No. 2. These further 50 FAQs result from questions asked about the new legislation in more than 30 webinars we presented over the last three months to various sectors of the construction industry including owners, consultants, contractors, trades, suppliers, insurers and financial institutions, so the questions reflect the interests and concerns of a broad cross section of the construction industry. Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act – FAQs – Issue No. 2 Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act – FAQs
CCA Advocacy Update Q1 2022
Download CCA Advocacy Update Q1 2022 An update on our advocacy efforts – Q1 2022 Raising Your Voice – Calgary Construction Association To start this year right, our advocacy efforts were focused on familiarizing ourselves with the policy environment in Calgary, while creating key connections with stakeholders in the City of Calgary. To that end, we’ve developed important relationships with many City Councillors, senior officials in the Mayor’s Office, the Green Line LRT Board, and other key figures in City Administration. Here is an update on the positions we’ve taken, our media coverage, and what we’re looking at in...
Preparing for Prompt Pay Legislation In Effect August 29, 2022
The new Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act (the renamed Builders’ Lien Act)which introduces prompt payment, changes to the existing Builders’ Lien Act and an adjudication process comes into effect August 29, 2022. Industry representatives appointed by the Alberta Construction Association including Gowling WLGs law firm have been directly involved in the stakeholder discussions. Here’s what you need to know to get prepared. For your reference is a consolidation of the old Act with the amendments, Prompt Pay Regulations, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions. The FAQs list a number of considerations for changes you will need to make to your invoicing and payment systems....
Labour Staffing Shortages, Realities & Solutions
Labour is the single most variable component in most construction activities. Any inability to source, manage, train, or anticipate disruptions to the workforce, puts subcontractors, contractors, owners, and other stakeholders in the project at great risk. Productivity is the output produced by a unit of study as a proportion of input required to produce it. A host of issues can undermine productivity: unplanned change order disruptions, accidents, continuous overtime burnout, poor site management, no focus on productivity or training, poor documentation (including the lack of an execution plan), failure to embrace continuous improvement and poor communication. Good Productivity is highly...
2021 Year In Review
Once again we have provided an update detailing all the activities and initiatives that we have engaged in over the the past 12 months. We truly appreciate all our members! As we enter another year and imagine what is ahead, we hope that we can find new ways to celebrate our collective role in making Calgary a truly great place to call home. 2021 Year in Review
Cost and Supply Chain Issues in Construction
It is no secret that construction material costs and lead time/supply issues are becoming a challenge for the industry. This will likely be the case over the course of this year and into 2022 and it is a complex situation impacted by numerous events and dynamics with COVID only being one part of it. This document is intended to gather information in order to assist the industry in understanding, responding to and communicating facts and statistics behind the volatility that we are seeing across a broad spectrum of products. We will continue to update this document as more information becomes...
Steel Market Insight March 2021
Steel Market Insight March 2021 As a passionate observer of economics and finance it is a pleasure to contribute to an ongoing quarterly newsletter column regarding historic, current, and future trend perspectives on various material and commodity inflationary and deflationary impacts on the building and infrastructure sectors on behalf of the Calgary Construction Association. In this article, attention is specifically devoted to examining the use of steel in building and infrastructure projects. Starting with some facts drawn from the 2020 World Steel Organization and other sources, one begins to better appreciate the global big-picture and the inflationary risk pressures lying...
PANDEMIC PLANNING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY- Addendum #1
PANDEMIC PLANNING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY- Version 4.0 PANDEMIC PLANNING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY- Addendum #1 As we approach the 12 month anniversary of COVID-19 many of us are weary and our people feel likewise. All the more reason to be sure that we do not relax the measures that have kept our people safe up to this point and have ensured that we can keep working. In our conversations with people in the industry many have asked recently about some of the lessons learned and, in particular, some of the methods being used to track and document relative...
PANDEMIC PLANNING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Version 4.0
PANDEMIC PLANNING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY – A GUIDE. Version 4.0 – April 23rd, 2020 INTRODUCTION. For those who had been tracking the progress of the COVID-19 Pandemic for some time it was becoming obvious that we were moving into unknown territory from a safety and health perspective. Just as with society in general we, as an industry, were likely going to have to develop new protocols and best practices for this emerging reality and in the week leading up to March 16th this began to ramp up significantly. We needed to respond as one industry and if this were...