CCA Updates
The Revay Review: Can Material Price Escalation be Treated as a Delay Impact Cost?
The Revay Review: Can Material Price Escalation be Treated as a Delay Impact Cost?
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...
Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act – FAQs – Issue No. 3
Gowling WLG LLP has provided a Prompt Payment and Construction Lien Act – FAQs – Issue No. 3. These further 50 FAQs (No. 110-160) 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. It is planned to issue one more set of FAQs – before the August 29, 2022 effective date of the legislation –...
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...
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