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TCA Member Spotlight
Get your company in in front of like-minded industry colleagues and grow your network and business opportunities! Click here, to learn more and to complete the application form.
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Advertise in Our Weekly Bulletin
Advertise your products and service in TCA's Weekly E-Connect bulletin. This email blast is sent to the members on Tuesday morning of each week. Please visit our website, or contact Vishawn Thompson for details.
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City of Toronto building new long-term care home in Scarborough
A new long-term care home to be built in Scarborough is expected to open in 2026 and could include up to 365 beds.
Work has already started on the procurement process for the project design and a detailed transition plan will be developed and implemented to move residents to the new location.
Toronto is also building a new 384-bed long-term care (LTC) home at the North York General Hospital, which the provincial government described as a “state-of-the-art” long-term care home on hospital property.
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Unveiling the layers behind Phase 2 of Hamilton’s Randle Reef remediation project
Cleaning up the largest and most contaminated site within the Canadian Great Lakes requires in-depth planning, dredging up layers and layers of historic pollution. But with the help of the Lieutenant General John Simcoe dredge, things are looking up for Hamilton Harbour.
Wayne Harris, senior project manager with Milestone Environmental Contracting, discussed the methodologies involved in the second phase of Hamilton, Ont.’s Randle Reef Sediment Remediation Project during the RemTech East event held recently in conjunction with the Canadian Water Summit.
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Mass timber office building opens in Vancouver
A four-storey, mass timber office building in Vancouver, the oN5, recently marked official occupancy with the help of local dignitaries and project partners.
Named for its location near the intersection of Ontario Street and East Fifth Avenue in the Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood of downtown Vancouver, the top three storeys of the building are constructed entirely out of cross-laminated timber (CLT). Its construction required sophisticated building information modelling and virtual construction work due to the challenging zero-lot-line site.
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Rising costs spook Toronto developers say experts
Around of project cancellations may be imminent as spikes in both hard and soft constructions costs continue to plague the Ontario construction sector, delegates attending a recent land development conference were warned.
Generous new construction wage hikes were seen as the latest in a perfect storm of cost escalations and stresses during a GTA-oriented session billed as Managing Project and Construction Costs in an Unpredictable Market. The event was held June 7 in Toronto as part of the 2022 Land and Development Conference.
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RESCON outlines steps for government to build more housing
RESCON recently sent a letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford highlighting steps that must be taken to kickstart the production of more housing across the province in order to meet the target of building 1.5 million residential units over the next 10 years.
The council is asking the government to streamline and speed up the development approvals process by adopting the One Ontario solution and adopting a centralized, digitized development planning and building e-permitting system across Ontario. RESCON also wants to see reforms to the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program to permit more foreign-trained construction workers, especially those in the voluntary trades, to work in Ontario.
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Canadian housing starts trend lower in May
The trend in housing starts came in at 254,727 units in May, down from an April figure of 257,833 units, reports Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The trend measure is a six-month moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of housing starts.
CMHC uses the trend measure as a complement to the monthly SAAR of housing starts to account for considerable swings in monthly estimates and obtain a clearer picture of upcoming new housing supply. In some situations, analyzing only SAAR data can be misleading, as the multi-unit segment largely drives the market and can vary significantly from one month to the next.
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Facing the costs of climate change for northern infrastructure
A new report from the Canadian Climate Institute reveals that climate change will devastate Northern infrastructure, threatening lives and livelihoods across the territories and the northern regions of large provinces. Because of the accumulated impacts of colonial policies and historic underinvestment, the poor condition of Northern infrastructure leaves it uniquely vulnerable, particularly with the North warming three times faster than the global average. Due North: Facing the costs of climate change for Northern infrastructure analyzes the need and the opportunity to rethink infrastructure in the North, advancing policies and investments to better serve Northerners and to prepare Northern infrastructure for the effects of climate change.
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Green cement could change the construction game—but will builders actually use it?
Concrete is the second-most used material in the world. We need it to support bridges, buildings, patios, staircases, countertops, and more—and its use has been growing and tripling in the past forty years. The essential building material comprises water, coarse aggregates, like sand and gravel, and a binding agent—which is where cement, an especially carbon emissions heavy product, comes in.
According to the International Energy Agency, the cement sector is the third-largest industrial energy consumer in the world, consuming seven percent of industrial energy use. It is also the second-largest industrial emitter of carbon dioxide, responsible for seven percent of global emissions.
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TCA's 26th Annual Members' Day is Back!
Save the date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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TCA's Annual Members' Day is back in-person — Mark your calendar!
We are pleased to announce that the Toronto Construction Association (TCA) 26th Annual Members' Day will be held on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at the TCA Head Office.
Members Day offers an exclusive opportunity to showcase product(s) / service(s) and a chance to reconnect and build new relationships with other industry professionals.
Click HERE to view pricing details.
Should you have questions or need more information, please contact, Nazak Ghobadi via:
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Exclusive Discount for TCA Members on publishing Certificates of Substantial Performance (CSPs) in the Daily Commercial News (DCN)! |
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All certificates and notices published in the Daily Commercial News (DCN) are a flat fee of $300 (plus tax). Special Affinity Pricing of $200 per certificate is available to all ConstructConnect subscribers and TCA members.
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Click on the image for more details.
**IMPORTANT: To apply the discount, please mention the offer at the time of order placement.**
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June 21 – 23 | Tuesday - Thursday | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
June 22 & 29 | Wednesday | 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST
June 28 | Tuesday | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Jun. 29 & 30 | Wednesday & Thursday | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Jun. 29 | Wednesday | 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM EST
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Faith Chen, Senior Manager, TCIC/Professional Development
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