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NTCCC re-engages on prompt payment, sets course on reprisal clauses and labour availability
Representatives of the National Trade Contractors Council of Canada (NTCCC) concluded successful meetings on January 30 with government officials surrounding three issues of critical importance to Canada’s construction sector.
Annual Student Chapter Summit a resounding success
Another amazing Student Chapter Summit is in the books!
 
Each year MCA Canada brings together participating student chapters for two days of networking, education and site visits. Participating chapters in this year’s event (from January 30 to February 1) included MCA Hamilton-Niagara/McMaster University, MCA Manitoba/University of Manitoba, MCA Kitchener Waterloo/Conestoga College and MCA Toronto/Ryerson University.
Project Management Program: Spring dates announced

The Construction Education Council is pleased to announce the latest series of dates in its always-popular Project Management Program.

Book your calendars for the week of March 5 to 9 and March 26 to 30 for this informative gold and blue seal-accredited 10-day course. The course is designed to help you:

  • improve the planning and controlling of your projects,
  • take a business view of projects and take ownership of a project from bid to final payment,
  • increase your own project “lessons learned” by learning from experiences of other
    participants,
  • be able and willing to contribute improvements to your company’s project management
    process, and
  • be better prepared to take the Gold Seal examination, if you choose.

Check out the attached PDF for more information.

INDUSTRY NEWS
Codes Canada: Final public review of proposed changes to the 2015 editions
Source: ConstructionLinks
The review will run on the Codes Canada webpage until March 13.
Mental health: The new frontier of workplace safety
Source: Daily Commercial News
Last month, the Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA) hosted a two-day workshop on mental health first aid to help dispel myths about mental health problems and reduce stigma around mental illness.
Heavy equipment becoming electrified
Source: Daily Commercial News
Power in the construction industry is evolving as worksites shift toward electrification and away from fossil fuels.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
New hardhat tech designed to protect the brain from all angles
Source: Daily Commercial News
Two Swedish companies, Guardio and MIPS AB, have created the world’s first brain-protection heavy-duty hardhat called the Armet helmet.
SmartCone technology an adaptable jobsite safety tool
Source: Daily Commercial News
While gearing up to deploy its advanced technology on the moon for the United States Space Force, SmartCone Technologies, based in Ottawa, is continuing to improve construction health and safety here on earth.
BY THE NUMBERS
Who got paid by the federal government this week?
Click below for the latest prompt payment in the construction industry payment tables.
GDP edged up 0.1 percent in November
Source: Canadian Manufacturing
After an economic decline in October, the Canadian economy began to bounce back in November. Cold weather helped increase activity in the utilities sector. Meanwhile, the construction and retail industries also experienced gains.
On this day in history

0786: Harun al-Rashid succeeds his older brother the Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi as Caliph of Baghdad.
1194: Richard I, King of England, is freed from captivity in Germany.
1787: Shay's Rebellion, an uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers against the new U.S. government, fails.
1795: France abolishes slavery in her territories and confers slaves to citizens.
1889: Harry Longabaugh is released from Sundance Prison in Wyoming, thereby acquiring the famous nickname, "the Sundance Kid."
1906: The New York Police Department begins fingerprint identification.
1909: California law segregates Caucasian and Japanese schoolchildren.
1915: Germany decrees British waters as part of the war zone; all ships to be sunk without warning.
1932: Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurates the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, N.Y.
1941: The United Service Organization (U.S.O.) is formed to cater to armed forces and defense industries.
1945: The Big Three, American, British and Soviet leaders, meet in Yalta to discuss the war aims.
1966: Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins televised hearings on the Vietnam War.
1974: Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.
1980: Syria withdraws its peacekeeping force in Beirut.
1986: The U.S. Post Office issues a commemorative stamp featuring Sojourner Truth.

Source: HistoryNet.com

Events
CIPHEX West 2020 - Experience the Future
Source: Canadian Institute of Plumbing & Heating
It will be all about what’s new when CIPHEX West takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia this fall.
 

 

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