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Current Upcoming Course
Construction Contract Administration
Dates: 13 Weeks
Starting
Feb 5, 2020
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5:30 pm - 8:30pm
Location: Stantec
325 25th Street SE, Calgary, Alberta
$850 Members
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Industry News
Manitoba Bill 218:
The Prompt Payments in the Construction Industry Act
A new Bill has been introduced by Reg Helwer, MLA from Brandon West, alongside the Manitoba Prompt Payment Coalition. It has passed the second reading and will now proceed to the next stage of approvals.
Manitoba is now the second province to come forward and introduce a form of prompt payment legislation.
CLICK HERE for more information.
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Calgary's
Construction Mixer
"Don't miss out on this FUN Event!"
Meet and Mingle with local Design and Construction Professionals.
A unique opportunity to network with people of like minds and interests
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Longbal "What Drives You?"
February 26th, 2020
January BREAKFAST Meeting
"The interrelationship of
post-secondary education and industry"
Description
How does post-secondary influence industry and how
does industry influence post-secondary?
In the industrial age, the relationship between post-secondary education and industry was linear. In today’s information age, you can no longer receive one-time training for a promising 40 year career. Education systems need to be agile, flexible and responsive. In order to have a promising career, one needs to commit to a path of life-long learning. The relationship between industry and education needs to be much more iterative and a two-way flow of information. Individuals and organizations that subscribe to this philosophy will surely benefit.
This presentation will cover:
- Alberta economy and the role of construction
- How the present economy is impacting enrollment
- Women in construction and other non-traditional careers
- How technology is impacting the construction industry and construction education
- Internationalization of construction education
- Summary of the School of Construction at SAIT (programs, courses, content)
- School of Construction’s strategy and focus for growth to best serve the construction industry
Speaker
Reva Bond Ramsden, B.A., B.Sc., M.B.A.
SAIT Dean of the School of Construction
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Location:
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The Winston Club
2502 6 Street NE
Calgary, AB
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January 14, 20-20
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7:30 am - 9:30am
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CSC CALGARY CHAPTER
2018 - 2019 Lloyd Boddy
Chapter Award Recipent
At the annual 2019 CSC Conference held in Regina, the Calgary Chapter was presented with the Lloyd Boddy Award.
The Lloyd Boddy award is presented to the chapter that has the highest:
Outstanding achievements by a Chapter toward fostering the objective of CSC.
"Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted, truely counts."
The CSC Family imbodies the intangeble, by connecting people in ways that can't be measured.
2019 Conference Wrap up
Upcoming Conference
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BSD PARTNERS WITH DIALOG DESIGN
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September 10, 2019
CSA A123.21 - Wind Uplift requirements
October 8, 2019
Deferred Design
Joint meeting with Edmonton
in Red Deer
November 19, 2019
Oldcastle Plant Tour
December 10, 2019
Christmas Social
Chop Steakhouse
January 14, 2020
The interrelationship between Post Secondary Education and Industry
February 26, 2020
Connections Café / Ignite Student Design Competition
March ?, 2020
Ignite Awards Gala
April 14, 2020 - DINNER
Joint ABEC/GAMA/CSC
May 12, 2020
ACM
May 20 - 24, 2020
Conference 2020 - Montreal
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subject to change
2019 Annual Conference Awards
2018 - 2019
Lloyd Boddy
Chapter of the Year Award
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Outstanding Contributions
to CSC
Trevor Devnich
Jonathon Greenland
Sylvie Dzikewich
Peter Hiebert
Program Directors Award
Corinne Golding
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Industry News:
What keeps owners and project teams up at night?
Discover their greatest fears, along with best practices for managing those risks, in a new project planning guide from AIA and its industry partners.
As written by Steve Cimino, August 27, 2018
Even the most experienced owners and project teams run into complications as they go through the design construction process. Some are easy to anticipate while others are unforeseeable, but all can be managed with the right strategies.To help highlight those strategies, AIA - along with the Large Firm Roundtable, Dodge Data & Analytics, and other industry partners - sponsored the research that led to this project planning guide.
It not only identifies the top sources of uncertainty but offers expert recommendations and leadership lessons that can help the entire team plan for problems and achieve the best possible outcomes. Based on responses from more than 300 owners, architects, and construction contractors, these are the seven challenges that keep project teams up at night:
1. Owner-driven changes: Whether the owner's requirements were unclear initially or modified during the lengthy planning process, changes in needs often result in added costs are the number-one source of project uncertainty.
2. Design omissions and communication gaps: Builders are not mind readers, and not every piece of essential hardware is outlined or included in the details provided by architects and engineers. If both sides aren't asking questions during construction, this could be an issue.
3. Construction coordination: When you're responsible for procuring and assembling thousands of components, as the construction team is, there's a chance you'll miss something. Unique or customized designs will also inevitably require modifications during construction.
4. Unknown site or building conditions: Rock or unstable soil during excavation, along with previously unidentified underground utilities or structural problems during a renovation, are just a few of the surprises that could pop up early in a project.
5. Design or documentation mistakes: Nobody's perfect, not even architects. More than 90 percent of the owners surveyed in this research believe it is impossible to achieve immaculate design documents, and 80 percent expect to absorb additional cost from minor mistakes.
6. Accelerated design and construction schedules: An owner may want to hurry his or her project to completion, for reasons both rational and selfish, but rushing can often lead to additional mistakes and coordination issues.
7. Delays in procurement, fabrication or assembly: There are numerous reasons for delays, including labor or material shortages and "acts of God," and they can all wreak havoc on deadlines and the bottom line.
As for managing these challenges, the project planning guide comes with a list of detailed recommendations. They include:
• Clear and direct leadership from within the owner's organization
• Early assembly of the entire project team
• Strong and open communication, especially amongst large teams
The guide also offers a contingency calculator that architects can use to review cost impacts, determine how long each risk will be present, and find the total recommended contingency amount. More than anything, the key to managing uncertainty is early budget planning across the entire team: owner, architect, engineers, and builder. Establishing scope and expectations at the start can pay dividends down the line.
Download the full project planning guide.
Guide based on Original Study.
Link to original article
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