CCA Updates
City of Calgary COVID-19 Contractor and Volunteer Vaccination Policy Compliance
As anticipated The City of Calgary has just approved and published the COVID-19 Contractor and Volunteer Vaccination Policy. The safety of employees, contractors, volunteers, and citizens is a top priority for The City of Calgary. The policy is intended to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 to ensure a safe and healthy workplace. This will minimize serious illness and severe outcomes related to the spread of COVID-19 while minimizing workplace disruption. You can visit the webpage for more information. Effective December 01, 2021, contractors (including subcontractors), suppliers and volunteers performing work for The City must be fully vaccinated or obtain a...
CCA at the Movies! Draw Winners
Thank you again to Reggin Industries for sponsoring our first CCA at the Movies on October 27th! If you attended hopefully you had a chance to stop by the Reggin table and pick up a complimentary bottle opener and entered the Reggin Business Card Draw! The prizes are a James Bond collectors magazine and James Bond collectors plaque. The luck winners of these Bond prizes are: Katelyn Smith- Office Concepts Richard Heine- Centron John Herasymiuk- Berkshire Contracting Congrats to all three winners! It was a great evening and we hope to see you at the next one!
About Contract Mirroring or Back – To – Back Contracts in The Construction Industry
Arianna Carlotti, Goodfellow & Schuettlaw Call it contract mirroring or back – to – back contracts, at the end of the day the essence is the same: it finds its origin in the subcontracting chain and it boils it down to cascading liability for the work executed or subcontracted. Depending on the kind of project, general contractors hire one or more subcontractors, who, in turn, hire sub-subcontractors to complete parts of the project. The general contractor stays liable to the owner of the project for the full extent of the project, even for the portion of the work subcontracted to...
New CCA Director of Government Relations Role
As Calgary stands at the threshold of our next chapter with a new Mayor and City Council in place, the prospect of a major downtown strategy including an Events Centre, Arts Commons and Green Line LRT, combined with aspirations of economic diversification and a long-awaited post pandemic recovery, we at CCA could not be more inspired. While there are many challenges within this diverse list, there are even more opportunities and, with such a broad range of issues to contend with, there is no doubt that we will have our hands full. We believe that our industry and our members...
New legislation would set criteria for construction of dams, roads, schools and bridges
via Global News Province would make a 20-year plan to decide what to build. The Infrastructure Accountability Act legislates the development and regular review of a 20-year strategic capital plan. (Nathan Gross/CBC) Paul McLauchlin is tired of MLAs knocking on his door before provincial elections, asking him if there are any local construction projects he’d like to announce. “It’s not that simple,” said McLauchlin, president of the Rural Municipalities Association and reeve of Ponoka County. “Just running around with a big fake cheque out there.” McLauchlan is optimistic that a bill introduced Monday by the Alberta government will create more accountability and fairness in how...
Member Advisory on COVID
View Advisory View Letter to Premier Kenney Member Advisory on COVID On October 1st, Premier Kenney held a virtual town hall with members of the regional construction associations and Alberta Construction Association. Alberta’s construction associations support our members through information to assist you in your efforts to keep your employees safe. We urge your consideration of the Premier’s request, which he stated as follows: “We want to ask your Member companies to please consider implementing proof of vaccination policies for your employees. We are experiencing a crisis of under vaccination in Alberta, which is imposing the greatest pressure...