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Clinckett honoured
with life award
When John Clinckett joined Construction
Specifi cations Canada in 1971, it
was a natural fi t. An architectural student
at the time, he had a strong interest
in the technical side of buildings and the
materials that make them. He is a new
recipient of the Construction Specifi cations
Canada’s Life Membership Award.
See Pg. 3
Highway coalition
demands roads money
Motorists are getting hosed over highways
and it’s time for the federal government
to do something about it, says
a new transport coalition. Th e group
wants stable, long-term investment in
the national highway system, starting
with the next federal budget.
See Pg. 4
Home construction
booms in U.S. market
American home construction unexpectedly
rose in September to the highest
level in seven months, defying expectations
of a slowdown in the booming
housing market. Construction of houses
and apartments rose 3.4 per cent last
month, the fastest pace since February.
See Pg. 5
Alberta government
to build two hospitals
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein says his
government approved building two
small hospitals instead of one big one to
prevent squabbling between two communities.
Th e Capital Health Authority
has confi rmed it will build two hospitals
east of Edmonton, one in Fort Saskatchewan
and another in Sherwood Park.
See Pg. 6
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Pied à Terre
HOWARD MANDEL
A worker welds at One Avondale Lofts & Pied à Terre in Avondale in North York, Ont.
Owner/developer Shane Baghai Group of Com. began the work last November and
completion is scheduled for spring 2006. The project includes a 20-storey loft with a
seven-storey Pied à Terre and will have a total of 179 units. There will also be four levels
of parking. For a list of the project team, see page 4.
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Arts Project
Making way
for the AGO
to transform
Glass facade most striking
display in gallery’s reno
DAN O’REILLY
CORRESPONDENT
hile a $207-million project that will
transform the Art Gallery of Ontario
has barely started, the gallery has
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been a beehive of pre-construction work during
the past year.
Th e work is in preparation for architect
Frank Gehry’s ‘Transformation AGO’ design,
which will dramatically alter the Art Gallery’s
presence along Dundas Street in downtown
T o r o n t o .
A 600-foot-long and 70-foot high curved
glass façade fronting Dundas will be the most
striking and visible example of the project which
will also include considerable renovation and
revamping with the resulting spaces for viewing
artworks being increased by 40 per cent.
Other components of the project include
a new 450-foot long sculpture gallery along
the north side of the building, a new central
See GALLERY, Pg.3
Clearing the Way
Blaster feels the earth move every day
PAT BRENNAN
CORRESPONDENT
M
ost of us have experienced
one or two earth-
shattering experiences
in our lives.
Ralph Jessup has 12 a week.
It’s his job to blast open Mother
Earth to make way for new construction
projects.
Currently, Jessup is blasting
his way through some of the oldest
and toughest rocks on earth so
Highway 400 can eventually be
punched north to Sudbury.
He is construction manager of koka.
Castonguay Blasting Ltd. of Sudbury,
which is handling all the
blasting for general contractor
Bot Construction as it extends the
multi-lane highway another 8.3
kilometres north through Mus-
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Contracting pullout
Th e earth exposes its skeleton
in the Muskoka area, which makes
it one of the most popular vacation
areas in North America, but
also one of the toughest areas on
the continent to build a highway.
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Every inch of Highway 400 in
this area has to be blasted through
the southern edge of the Precambrian
Shield.
Marty Harris, Bot’s project
engineer on this contract from
the Ontario Ministry of Transportation,
said he has to remove one
million cubic metres of the four-
billion-year-old rocks.
See DYNAMITE, Pg. G&T-5
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Health and Safety
Electrical work
un-permitted
RICHARD GILBERT
STAFF WRITER
C
ontractors operating
in the underground
economy are under-
taking more than one-third
of all residential electrical
installations in B.C.
Late last month, the BC
Safety Authority (BCSA)
released its fourth annual
State of Safety Report 2007.
According to the report, an
increasing amount of work
in B.C. is being done without
a permit.
“A m aj o r c o n c e r n d e t a i l e d
in the 2006 State of Safety
Report was electrical work
performed without a permit,
and un-permitted work
continued to be an issue in
2007,” said the report.
“Overall construction
activity was very high
throughout the province in
2007, leading to a shortage
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Formerly:
Production Equipment –
Vancouver,
Old Country Rentals –
Victoria,
C & N Rentals –
Comox Valley
of licensed contractors available
for electrical installation
w o r k . ”
Stephen Hinde, provincial
electrical safety manager
with the BCSA, uses the
term grey market to describe
a market where a contractor
sometimes operates illegally,
and at other times legally.
He said there has been
an increase in greymarket
activity, due to a booming
construction industry and
a shortage of qualified elec-
trical contractors.
�is situation has created
a problem for homeowners,
who find it extremely difficult
to find contractors to do
work.
General contractors also
need to be aware of this
problem, when hiring subcontractors
to do a small
part of a job.
See UNDERGROUND, Pg.2
Effectiveness of unions in Canada criticized
RICHARD GILBERT
STAFF WRITER
A
survey released by Canadian
LabourWatch Association
found unions are irrelevant
and their leaders out of touch, but
one union leader believes this view
of the results is biased and distorted.
LabourWatch hired Nanos
Research to conduct a telephone
survey of 1,000 employed Canadians
Labour
between July 27th and Aug. 6th.
One of the most important findings
of the Nanos survey is that 77
per cent of non-unionized working
Canadians are not interested in being
unionized.
�e survey also found that more
than 25 per cent of currently unionized
respondents said they would
prefer not to be unionized, if given
the choice.
Newsroom Reno
RICHARD GILBERT
The BC redevelopment (front) involves the construction of a 3 storey, 4,000 sq ft
newsroom that allows the public to view the newsroom and studios from the street and
from inside the new entrance. The construction manager is Scott Construction Group,
the project manager is MKT Developments Group Inc. and the developer is Concord
Pacific. Construction is scheduled to be finished by fall 2009. The $82 million dollar
T.V Towers project (back) involves the construction of two residential high-rise buildings.
The owner and construction manager is Concord Pacific Group Inc. and the
architect is IBI/HB Architects. The project is scheduled for completion this year.
“�ese results speak for themselves”
said John Mortimer, president
of LabourWatch.
“Union leader positions on a
range of issues are contributing to
this continuing slide in both interest
and actual union representation.”
A spokesperson for union workers
in Alberta has a very different
interpretation of the survey commissioned
by LabourWatch.
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“It (LabourWatch) is a who’s who
of anti-labour organizations that
exists to undermine unions and
get them off work sites,” said Gil
McGowan, president of the Alberta
Federation of Labour.
“When you look at this poll, you
must consider the source. �is is a
laughable group that must not be
taken seriously.”
See MOST PEOPLE, Pg.2
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