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Is Your Business Ready for CASL’s Private Right of Action?
Being unprepared or unknowledgeable can cost your company thousands of dollars or more By Paul K. Grower, Fillmore Riley LLP On July 1, 2017, Canada will be “celebrating” the third anniversary of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation - generally known as CASL (pronounced “castle”). Whether a celebration is warranted is questionable. While the legislation was purportedly designed
Creating New Benchmarks
Fraste's move into Canada signals new capabilities for the foundation sector By Kelly Gray Fraste SPA Italy is a company born from tradition. Back in the 1960s, the company's founder, Benito Fracca, followed the family's vision of benchmarking products that offered tremendous utility. Launching his mechanical workshop in 1964, Fracca looked to the traditions of his family and the historic forge they operated in
Up and Coming
Backed by one of the country's premier construction and infrastructure development companies, Aecon Foundations is expanding its role in Canada's piling industry By Mark Halsall Aecon Foundations has been installing piles for almost 50 years. But it wasn't until 2013 that the Calgary-based company began to ramp up its deep foundation business in a really big way.
Ottawa’s AATech Scientific
Celebrating 20 years of pile testing By Jim Chliboyko Twenty years have gone by quickly for Sam Salem and Fred Agharazi. The two men are the founders of AATech Scientific, an Ottawa-based pile-testing company the two formed in 1997.
Building From The Top Down
Bridges normally aren't constructed this way, but thanks to cutting edge technology developed in part by a Canadian company, that's exactly what's happening in Cartagena, Colombia By Mark Halsall Building a bridge from the top down isn't the usual way to do it. But when bridge builders faced the daunting prospect of having to span five kilometres of swampland during a highway upgrade project in Cartagena, Colombia, it was determined that top-down construction made the most sense.
Toronto’s Massey Hall Legacy
What's the future; What's the foundation By Marc Paoliello, P.Eng., Deep Foundations Contractors Inc. This article originally appeared in Foundation Drilling magazine, the official publication of ADSC: the International Association of Foundation Drilling. It is reprinted with permission. Is Toronto in the midst of a cultural renaissance? As Canada's largest urban centre at just over 6 million people, the population has grown since 1834, overtaking Chicago to become North America's fourth most populous city. Toronto's longstanding institutions are undergoing massive overhauls to meet the demands of a quickly changing metropolitan area.
The Western Canada Piledrivers Training Centre
The Centre's three-year program is geared to making its graduates knowledgeable about the many different aspects of the pile driving industry By Lisa Kopochinski Although the Western Canada Piledrivers Training Centre is relatively new - it opened in 2009 - the program boasts an impressive success rate with 95 per cent of its students graduating.
Joining Forces for a Stronger Future
The evolution of Northstar Sharp's Foundation Specialists
Precision Positioning
Alva Construction Ltd. streamlines pile driving with new visualization and control system By Judith Powers As Alva Construction Ltd. Of Antigonish, N.S. began the timber pile component of a major project to replace the fishing wharf at Little Dover, N.S., engineering manager Reg Tramble was looking for a machine control system that would streamline the placement of the piles. The job involved driving 180 timber piles - 132 bearing or vertical piles and 48 batter piles in the L-shaped pile work wharf section.
Meet a Piling Professional
Darrell Hawk, Pile Drivers, Divers, Bridge, Dock and Wharf Builders Local 2404 Describe your current job. I'm the financial secretary/business manager for Pile Drivers, Divers Local 2404. My other duties include training the director and chair of our Pension/Health and Welfare Committee.
Fair and Consistent
The duty of good faith in contractual performance By Dean G. Giles, Fillmore Riley LLP A 2014 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada dealing with the question of good faith contractual performance, and a more recent lower court decision that applies its reasoning, could have a significant impact on the way in which contracts created as part of the tendering process are interpreted.
Muscling into the Canadian Market
Filling Canada's need for piling products By Jennifer Paterson American Muscle Docks & Fabrication has its roots in the fabrication business - it was born from an amalgamation between Valley Manufacturing, a metal fabricating and stamping company, and Follansbee Dock Systems, which it purchased in 2012.
Walk the Talk
TEI Rock Drills in committed to quality and performance By Kelly Gray Drilling rock is hard work. Harder still can be making the equipment that has to pass the test in the field. Since 1980, TEI Rock Drills has been passing this test thanks to winning technology, a custom approach and a “get-'er-done” attitude born from founder Bill Patterson's desire to do things better. Today, Patterson's family business is a world-leading manufacturer of drilling attachments, limited access drills and drill rig components.
Piling in a Protected Park
Cyntech Canada uses a specialized technique in Banff National Park By Jon Waldman Working in the piling industry, a company can be faced with a number of projects that are unique. While each job has its own dynamics, there are some that stand out as being different from the “norm” that one might see in a downtown Canadian city or in rural centres across our country.