General Contractors Council to develop
guidelines for owners’ use of project
managers
The CCA General Contractors Council will strike a taskforce with
owner representatives, project management (PM) firms, architects
and consulting engineers to develop guidelines for owners when
considering the use of PM firms. This will include guidance on the
role and services provided by PM firms, when they will add value to
a project and the parameters owners should utilize when engaging
PM firms.
National industry ethics course
CCA is working with BuildForce Canada to develop a national con-struction
industry ethics course. It was hoped that the course will
be unveiled at the CCA Annual Conference last March. This new
course will be mandatory for all Gold Seal Certification program
applicants.
Indigenous engagement best
practices guide
CCA, together with the Aboriginal Human Resource Council, is in
the process of developing an Indigenous engagement best practices
guide focused specifically on the construction industry.
Editor’s note: The above text was reprinted with permission from the
Canadian Construction Association’s 2015 Accomplishments and 2016
Priorities.
WCRHCA priorities for 2016 and beyond
Western and Northern Canada – Trade Transportation
Prosperity (WNCTTP)
The Trade Team West (TTW) initiative is proposed to advocate for
integrated, sustained and strategic investment in new and/or ex-isting
multi-modal, trade-enabling infrastructure assets (road, rail,
air, marine), trans-mountain and trans-Canadian pipeline to export
Canadian oil and gas, and related supporting policy measures, fo-cused
on expanding Western and Northern Canada’s global trade
profile, growth, wealth generation and jobs.
The TTW mission should be to advocate for investment strate-gies
to establish strategic multi-modal trade gateways and corri-dors
across Western and Northern Canada to facilitate the efficient
transportation of regional commodities, resources and goods
throughout North America and the world.
Projects and strategies should focus on investments – wheth-er
hard (assets) or soft (policy) – that affect Western and Northern
Canada’s trade profile including, but not limited to:
• Improving Western and Northern Canada’s economic
productivity, and therefore competitiveness – generating
new business opportunities and increased employment;
• Identifying and supporting strategic investment in key multi-modal,
trade-enabling infrastructure assets to enhance
the overall efficiency of the transportation network. Those
would include strategic road and rail links across Western
Canada and Northern Canada, connecting the full region
to new and enhanced global trade opportunities, south
to the United States – our largest trading partner – key
border crossings and to inland and marine ports;
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