March 12, 2010
For the fifth time in the past seven months, total employment in Canada increased, according to February’s labour market report from Statistics Canada. The latest month-over-month gain was 21,000 net new jobs.
March 12, 2010
Seacliff Construction Corp.’s electrical and data communications contracting arm, Canem Systems, has been awarded a contract to manage electrical construction services at the Edmonton Clinic North (ECN).
March 12, 2010
After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing New York City, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
March 11, 2010
Initial jobless claims in the U.S. in the latest week, ending March 6, remained at a relatively high number: 462,000. This was a decline of only 6,000 versus the previous week’s level of 468,000.
March 10, 2010
The American construction workforce was smaller in every state in January 2010 than only 12 months earlier, according to an analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
March 10, 2010
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded an engineering services contract for the Empresa Mixta Petromacareo Project by PDVSA Engineering & Construction, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A (PDVSA).
March 10, 2010
It was a little less than a year ago (March 9, 2009) that the four major North American stock market indices sank to their low points in the recession.
March 9, 2010
It’s a good idea to keep checking the Statistics Canada web site. You never know what you’ll find. Included among today’s releases by the national statistical agency is a report: Projections of the Diversity of the Canadian Population.
March 9, 2010
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a contract by Sasol Nitro to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for a new calcium ammonium nitrate production plant in an existing chemical complex in Secunda, South Africa.
March 8, 2010
Housing starts in Canada have made a remarkable recovery, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. The February starts level was just under 200,000 units, at 196,700 seasonally adjusted and annualized.
March 5, 2010
The U.S. construction unemployment rate jumped to 27.1 per cent and construction employment dropped to a 14-year low as another 64,000 construction workers lost jobs in February, according to new labour numbers.
March 5, 2010
Infrastructure Ontario has issued a request for qualifications to design, build, finance and maintain a new consolidated courthouse in St. Thomas, Ont.
March 5, 2010
U.S. employment declined again in February 2010, but by only 36,000 jobs. In the worst month for employment in the recession, January of last year, the jobs decline was 780,000.
March 4, 2010
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration Project.
March 4, 2010
Today’s initial jobless claims report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor was mildly encouraging. The level for the latest week ending February 27th was 469,000, a decline of 29,000 from the previous Thursday.
March 3, 2010
Seacliff Construction Corp.’s general contracting division, Dominion Construction, has been awarded two institutional construction management contracts in British Columbia worth a combined $61.8 million.
March 3, 2010
The envision Group’s wholly owned subsidiary, Western Construction and Combustion Service Inc., has been awarded a $2.5 million contract with the Buffalo Lake M’etis Settlement in Alberta.
March 3, 2010
Aecon Group Inc. earned $15.4 million in its latest quarter, weighed down by a loss on foreign exchange and a charge related to its South Rock and Lockerbie acquisitions.
March 3, 2010
U.S. construction spending in January fell by $5.5 billion to $884 billion, the lowest level since June 2003, according to an analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
March 3, 2010
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers will be conducting an unreserved public equipment auction at its permanent auction site in Edmonton from March 10 to 12.