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February 6, 2012

Benson Steel faces transport challenge on Toronto Yorkdale Mall construction project

At Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Benson Steel faced a challenge: how to transport nearly 30 tonnes of steel girder over a 300-foot stretch atop the roof of one of Toronto’s busiest shopping malls. The general contractor is Carillion.

January 26, 2012

Steel on target in Milton, Ontario warehouse construction

Minneapolis-based retail chain Target will open numerous stores across Canada by 2013. K.C. Welding Ltd., an Angus, Ontario-based steel erector, is putting up a 1.3 million-square-foot steel joist, truss and girder box frame for the distribution centre in Milton, west of Toronto.

January 16, 2012

Ontario Federation of Labour demonstrates at London, Ontario Caterpillar plant

The Ontario Federation of Labour announced two of its executive officers planned Monday to visit the picket line outside a London, Ontario plant owned by heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. OFL has asked workers to mobilize for a massive rally Jan. 21 in London, where CAW says members of its Local 27 are locked out of the Electro-Motive Canada plant.

January 6, 2012

Inaugural Cat online auction a success

Cat Auction Services recently announced that its recent eQuipment Yard auction, its inaugural online timed auction, exceeded the company’s projected sales revenue by almost 10 per cent.

January 4, 2012

Formalities can be fatal to validity of low bids

The failure to adhere to tendering formalities can be fatal to a low bidder’s eligibility for contract award.

December 16, 2011

Contractors start excavation for Windsor, Ontario highway extension

Work has started in earnest on the 11-kilometre Windsor-Essex Parkway highway, which will extend Highway 401 through Windsor, Ontario to the international border with the United States on the Detroit River in Michigan. Parkway Infrastructure Constructors (PIC) is the joint venture overseeing design and construction.

December 15, 2011

Ritchie Bros. nets $1-billion in online auction sales for 2011

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest auctioneer of heavy equipment and trucks, attracted more than 5,000 bidders from 35 countries to a two-day CA$66 million unreserved public auction at its site in Edmonton, Alta., which started Dec. 7.

December 12, 2011

London, Ontario council receives draft budget, including $72 million in recreation centre construction

Staff with the city of London, Ontario submitted a proposed tax-supported budget to Council this week, which includes $109.8 million on main road rehabilitation and $45.4 million on heavy equipment purchases over ten years.

December 6, 2011

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers sells $5 billion worth of construction equipment over the Internet

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc. (TSX:RBA) has set a new record as it exceeded US$5 billion in online equipment sales. The company conducts hundreds of unreserved public auctions each year, selling a broad range of used and unused equipment, trucks and other assets utilized in the construction, transportation, agricultural, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum and marine industries.

November 30, 2011

Courts reject legal claims against construction project owners from contractors submitting non-compliant bids

Courts in Alberta, Ontario and the Northwest Territories have ruled that an owner has both a right and a duty to reject a non-compliant tender. A bidder seeking to challenge an owner’s tendering process should therefore carefully consider whether its tender contains any material flaws.

February 26, 2010

Major revamp for Windsor-Detroit ‘hazmat’ ferry dock

Despite its four-month construction time frame — and November start date — by late January more than half the work had been completed at the Detroit-Windsor truck ferry dock in Windsor’s Ojibway Industrial Park.

February 26, 2010

Brampton, Ontario road expansion project scores two goals in a single shot

The $32-million two-lane widening and reconstruction of a seven- kilometre section of Queen Street East in Brampton is the largest single road contract project ever undertaken by Peel Region and is also helping to improve public transit connections.

February 26, 2010

Ontario Ministry of Transportation getting concrete results from pre-cast tests

Typically, road crews have a limited range of options to repair concrete roads on busy highways. Conventional concrete takes time to set, impeding traffic. Repairs completed with hot mix asphalt and fast track concrete can get traffic moving quickly but sacrifice durability.

February 26, 2010

Transparent noise barrier pilot program launched on QEW

Monolithic noise barriers have become a regular feature of Ontario highway construction.

February 26, 2010

Get hip to Reclaimed Ashpalt Pavement, roadbuilders urged

Roadbuilders and owners need to sing from the same song sheet about RAP, attendees at the Ontario Hot Mix Producers Association’s annual seminar heard.

February 26, 2010

Build better roads starting from bottom up

Apparently thicker is better — at least when it comes to paving roads — according to an MTO expert.

February 26, 2010

London, Ontario hopes roundabout will improve traffic flow and safety

In rail travel’s golden era, the round house was key to helping a locomotive reverse direction. That idea comes full circle in a unique structure intended to improve safety and ease road traffic flow over CN rail tracks in London, Ontario.

February 26, 2010

Canadian Construction Association, B.C. road builders join forces to push for regulation changes

The B.C. Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association and the Canadian Construction Association are challenging the federal government over the definition of an inter-provincial carrier.

February 26, 2010

Highway 406 a perpetual paving testing ground

When it comes to designing pavement and engineering road building specifications, there’s nothing like a real world test lab to prove out ideas — the highway itself.

February 26, 2010

Grade separation will release traffic knots in Windsor, Ontario

When it comes to traffic and railways, Windsor is just a little different from other Canadian cities. And when it comes to building a road underneath one of those train lines things are different again.

February 26, 2010

International Snowplow Championship packed them in

It’s a mid-winter competition that has attracted contestants from around the world to Canada this February. The Vancouver 2010 Olympics?

February 26, 2010

‘Nasty’ terrain just one of the challenges on Port Mann Highway 1 project

The Port Mann Highway 1 (PMH1) project has involved working on some of Vancourver’s Lower Mainland’s most “nasty” terrain, meeting stringent environmental guidelines, and avoiding stiff penalties of up to $800,000 per hour for being on site past daily deadlines, recounts Don Jacobsen, project manager for Peter Kiewit Sons.

February 26, 2010

Nighttime is the right time for road works in Toronto

Decades ago, the idea of construction crews working on road building projects after dark was the exception, rather than the norm. Traffic be damned, construction work took precedence over commuters.

February 26, 2010

Column: Green theme popping up again and again for road builders

Green Again was the theme of the 83rd Ontario Road Builders’ Association (ORBA) convention February 1-2 in Toronto.