By Dave Carpenter As Manager, Capital Projects, Town of Oakville, Nick Valerio played a central role in the recent completion of the Oakville Trafalgar Community Centre that’s received high praise in this community west of Toronto. That said, Valerio is quick to point out that the new community centre would have never [...]
By Dave Carpenter Upon taking on Library and Archives Canada's new preservation facility project, Nathalie Ethier was so excited; she felt like it was her baby. Except this baby should live for 500 years. Nathalie Ethier is the Project Director, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) for the new, and second, preservation facility [...]
By Tina Costanza For many Canadians, one image that comes to mind when they think of Canada is the Centre Block and its Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The team behind its restoration and modernization — the largest and most complex heritage rehabilitation project ever seen in Canada — has [...]
By Tina Costanza A $205-million West Side Modernization Project at Port Saint John in Saint John, New Brunswick, will boost shipping opportunities that will have positive impacts on the economy at the local, provincial and national levels. In partnership with the Government of Canada and the Province of New Brunswick, the project [...]
Upgrade and Modernization Transformers Wastewater Into Clean Water By Tina Costanza If there’s one thing the citizens of Dieppe, Moncton and Riverview are passionate about, it’s the Petitcodiac River that flows through that tri-community in New Brunswick. It’s where residents and visitors enjoy recreational activities, such as surfing the tidal bore, boating [...]
Montreal’s Groundbreaking New Bus Garage Upon completion in 2022, Montreal’s new Bellechasse bus garage will be the first bus garage in North America to be fully underground! Business Elite Canada interviewed Guillaume Leroux, project manager for Bellechasse bus garage, about the current state of this groundbreaking project. BEC: Please give a brief [...]
Dieppe's Economy and Residents To Delight In Multipurpose Uniplex The largest project in the city of Dieppe, New Brunswick’s history is on track to open its doors for the first time to serve as a multipurpose and intergenerational facility and economic boost to the region. Called UNIplex, after the provincial co-op bank [...]
Province's First Public-Private Project Yields Long-Term Care Home It’s said that good things happen in threes, and that’s just what appears to have happened in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador. The construction and opening of a new state-of-the-art long-term care home has created jobs, relieved the health-care system, and marked the completion [...]
Unprecedented investment to improve and rehabilitate infrastructure It’s interesting to consider what the builders of the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site—who spent years of manual labour to create the massive lock system to facilitate transportation of lumber to supply the construction boom in lower Ontario—would think of their creation if they could [...]
Nuclear Power Station Hitting Refurbishment Goals By Tina Costanza Canada’s largest clean-energy project, the decade-long refurbishment of Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, has begun to hit milestones as it boosts Ontario’s economy. The refurbishment marks the first time a project of this scope has been undertaken within the station’s 30-year [...]