Construction

Imagine a sunny beach, where someone is soaking up the rays, enjoying a relaxing and well-earned retirement from years in the construction business. Suddenly, someone approaches them with a piece of paper and that retirement is shaken to pieces.

Abitibi-Consolidated’s Fort William Woodlands Division has added 800,000 hectares of forested land under certification.

By ANDREW WAREING With an industry hungry for aggregates for road building, a plan is in the works by OCL Custom Crushing and Quarrying to develop a gravel pit north of Hanmer on Highway 69, with a projected resource of more than 20 years.

With a shifting demographic, the majority of growth in the labour force is likely to come from people who received their education elsewhere in the world, according to Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME).

The four-laning expansion of Highway 11 will bring economic opportunities and more tourism traffic for the region, organizers of an upcoming round-table conference say.

An $18-million, 120-condominium project called The Tuscany on Elm is expected to start construction soon. It is a four-phase development proposed by developer John Corsi, to be built at the former site of the Odeon Theatre block in Greater Sudbury.

The new Northern Ontario Medical School will cost $12,679,500 to build and, after viewing tenders submitted for the construction project, officials at Laurentian University have selected The Atlas Corp. of Concord, Ont. for their lowest bid.

Raising property taxes can be the deciding factor between a business staying open or closing, attracting a new tenant for an office space or leaving that property vacant.

One could have heard a pin drop when over 100 contractors and supervisors sat absorbed in a mock trial detailing the ramifications of a construction job gone sour.

If the lack of skilled tradespeople is becoming a common refrain, then the home building industry is able to sing the chorus without a lyric sheet.