News Archives

June 29, 2009 -Allard Contractors Ltd. of Coquitlam has been honoured with a provincial Ministry of Energy and Mines safety award.

June 25, 2009 - An impressive new City Of Calgary web site provides comprehensive data on the City’s capital investment program.

June 20 2009 – Yesterday’s Victoria Times Colonist quoted a cautiously optimistic Herb Wilson on prospects for the Polaris Minerals aggregate operation on Vancouver Island. 

June 15, 2009 - While Saskatchewan remains the provincial growth leader in Canada, the U.S. and global recessions are nonetheless taking a toll on performance, according to the latest provincial forecast released today by RBC.

June 14, 2009 - Statistics Canada data for the first quarter of 2009 indicates that the construction sector fared better than industry as a whole, at least in terms of industrial capacity utilization rates.

June 10, 2009 - The 2009 highway construction season will create more than 16,000 direct and indirect jobs and expand, repair and improve highways, roads and bridges across the province, according to today’s McGuinty government announcement. 

June 7, 2009 - Separate incidents last week were tragic reminders of the attraction quarries can have for curious teenagers.  

June 2, 2009 - The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced yesterday that construction spending during April 2009 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $968.7 billion, 0.8 percent (±1.3%) above the revised March estimate of $961.3 billion.