Inflation Means Businesses Face Insurance Woes When Rebuilding
Persistent inflation has had spillover effects on the insurance that companies use to guard against disaster at their facilities, with higher construction costs making it harder to get coverage and harder to get paid on claims. Businesses usually insure against events such…
Committee moves to encourage more housing construction in Ottawa
The City’s Planning and Housing Committee recently recommended endorsing a municipal housing pledge with strategies to encourage construction of 151,000 new homes across Ottawa by 2031. The Province assigned Ottawa’s target as part of a larger plan to support construction of 1.5 million…
Quebec construction industry wants major reforms in public contracts
A coalition of construction companies says Quebec could save $14 billion over the next 10 years by cleaning up its public contracting procedures and, above all, by instituting professional and competent project management. Two major construction associations and two independent institutions,…
Boomtown struggle: N.B. contractors desperate to find workers
As new homes continue to go up in Moncton, contractor Andrew Nelson gets lots of calls about taking on new projects. But with not enough workers, he routinely turns them down. “My standard answer now is ‘What’s your timeline?'” If they say they…
Highway contractor fined $1M for West Vancouver fish kill
A B.C. highway contractor has been fined $1 million after a chemical spill from their West Vancouver job site led to a fish kill on Larson Creek. Keller Foundations pleaded guilty to one count under the Federal Fisheries Act and was sentenced in…