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May 15, 2008
WILLIAM CONWAY/PROGRESS PHOTOGRAPHY
Structural steel takes shape at GO Transit’s new Streetsville bus-repair facility in Mississauga, Ontario.
Buttcon builds bus-repair shop in Streetsville
Buttcon Ltd. began work on GO Transit’s two-storey bus-repair facility, a design-build project, in August 2007. Completion is scheduled for January 2009. Strasman Architects Inc. designed the building.
Consultants are Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd. (structural); MCW Consulting Ltd. (mechanical/electrical); and IBI Group (landscape/civil).
Subtrades include Blu-Mar Excavating; Geosolv (shoring/caissons); Harris Rebar; R & A Contracting (formwork); Pre-con Inc. (precast); Skyhawk Steel Construction (structural steel); Dufferin Concrete; Bernel Masonry; Nekison Engineering & Contractors Ltd. (mechanical); Fortis Electric Ltd.; Nedlaw Roofing; Kone Inc. (elevators); and London Paving.
| MOST POPULAR STORIES |
- Steel hurdles for Aga Khan Museum build
- Benson Steel faces transport challenge on Toronto Yorkdale Mall construction project
- Toronto Construction Association presents ‘Best of the Best’ awards
- Bidding closes for Toronto 2015 Pan Am games venues
- Steel key for CF-5 fighter jet monument at Toronto defence facility
- 20 Most Popular Stories
| TODAY’S TOP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS |
These projects have been selected from 288 projects with a total value of $2,181,603,356 that Reed Construction Data Building Reports reported on Friday.
STADIUM, BERMS, PARKING GARAGE, SITE WORKS
$129,300,000 Ottawa ON Tenders
$107,557,000 Burlington ON Tenders
CONDOMINIUM APARTMENT BUILDING
$31,300,000 Toronto ON Prebid
| CURRENT STORIES |
- Steel truss system helps reduce construction cost of Toronto apartment building
- Ontario College of Trades will drive up infrastructure costs: Conservative leader Tim Hudak
- Procurement needs to be fair, open and transparent
- Losing bidder bridles at Pan Am Games park selection, Equine Canada “thrilled”
- Armstrong extended at Ontario College of Trades
- CVTech secures Hydro Quebec construction, maintenance work
- Toronto council votes in favour of light rail transit
- Ottawa City Council approves affordable housing capital projects
- Pre-cast concrete segment falls into river after gantry crane collapses
- Alberta throne speech hints at development plan
- Union claims construction oversight needed at defence department
- Site prep in North Vancouver
- Legislation limiting strikes ruled unconstitutional
- World Plumbing Day garners support from Canadian senator
- PHOTO GALLERY: Merit Alberta open house
- Seeing the sustainable forest for the trees
- Pump Station Upgrades
- Labour federation opposes pipeline
- Site for new correctional facility selected
- Edmonton roofer dies
- Regulators approve oilsands facility expansion
- Highway 3 upgrades
- New chairman named for Alberta Construction Association
| ALEX’S ECONOMICS BLOG |
Reed Construction Data Canada’s Chief Economist Alex Carrick discusses current developments in the North American economic environment with emphasis on the construction industry.
- Home starts and job levels diverge in Canada and the U.S. (February 8, 2012)
- Canada’s labour market flat in January but U.S. on a roll (February 3, 2012)
- Canada’s leading indicator series continued to charge ahead in December (January 23, 2012)
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