BuildForce Canada, an information hub that studies and forecasts long-term trends in the labour market, estimates that 257,100 construction workers will retire over the next decade. ...
Pile Dynamics, Inc., reveals a game changer in DLT software
By Aaron Broverman
Dynamic Load Testing (DLT) is a fast, reliable and cost-effective way to test the bearing capacity of foundations. For over 40 years, the Pile Driving Analyzer (PDA) has been the go-to software for such testing. However, in 2018, Pile Dynamics, Inc., created a software add-on to the PDA that makes DLT quicker and easier than ever before.
Second Chance Line Restraint strap dramatically reduces injury risk on jobsites
By Jim Timlick
Second Chance Line Restraint owner John Unger logged thousands of hours at the controls of various types of cranes during his career in the construction industry. However, there is one particular shift that remains indelibly etched in his mind.
Prompt payment and adjudication legislation and the application on AFP projects
By Geoff Stenger, Jason Roth, Parker Mckibbon and Evan Hall, Bennett Jones LLP
The Canadian construction and infrastructure sector is currently experiencing major changes due to the introduction of new prompt payment legislation in jurisdictions across Canada. Brought on by industry complaints due to the lack of timely payment requirements and formal adjudication requirements, prompt payment and adjudication legislation is in the process of being implemented, or is already in effect, in a number of Canadian provinces and federally. These changes have had, and will have, a significant effect on Canada’s construction and infrastructure sector. How will these changes impact alternative financed procurement projects and projects procured under a private-public-partnership model (collectively, AFP projects) for infrastructure delivery?
Hubbell Power Systems, Inc., releases HeliCAP® Version 3
By Deb Draper
For more than 30 years engineers have been using Hubbell Power Systems, Inc., HeliCAP® Helical Capacity Design Software to help design foundations, tiebacks, soil nails and heavy guyed loads using helical anchors and piles. Over those three decades, the software system has evolved into a powerful tool in the advancement of the foundation industry, with its most recent Version 3 continuing to add to the program’s design capabilities.
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