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Good morning! 📸 Celebrate the beauty of construction and diversity. This month The Tradeswomen Exhibit is launching at Gallery 881 in Vancouver. The multi-media experience, a collaboration between B.C.-based Red Seal Electrician Carly Steiman and photographer Millissa Martin, celebrates the skill, artistry, and resilience of women in the trades.

What’s in the newsletter:

👷🏻‍♀️ Workers injured by explosion

💰 PCL’s $1.5M donation

🦾 Robo-factory starts running

📈 LABOUR BY THE NUMBERS

Recent Statistics Canada data found that 16.4% of core-aged workers (25–54) with postsecondary education were employed in jobs unrelated to their education or training, up 0.9 points from a year earlier, with the increase most pronounced among 25–34-year-olds (18.2%). Recent immigrants were more likely than Canadian-born workers to experience this mismatch (21.2% vs. 15.2%), largely due to a lack of available jobs in their field (41.9%), whereas Canadian-born workers more often chose unrelated work (56.3%).

👷‍♀️ PEOPLE MOVES

Bird Infrastructure welcomes Darren Short as Vice President, Construction, leading Project Management and Field Operations teams in Ontario and overseeing construction projects across Atlantic Canada, and promotes Michael Drew to Director, Construction, to strengthen and expand Project Management teams across Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Brian Maksymetz is now Collaborative Delivery Portfolio Manager - Canada Water at Jacobs.

Madison Industrial Group announces five key leadership appointments: Joseph Higgs as Vice President, Field Service; Clark Usher as Vice President, Energy Services; Douglass Krecsy as Vice President, Product Distribution; Josh Sobil as Vice President, Sales & Business Development; and Peter Rees as Vice President, Corporate Strategy.

After nearly a decade leading major projects on the contractor side, Mykola Pulnyev has joined Hanscomb Limited as a Director.

Jake Kinney has been promoted to Regional Manager, Vancouver, at Ledcor.

Adam Kelly, PMP has joined Creo Construction as Senior Project Manager, bringing over 20 years of construction industry experience spanning structural upgrades to complex tenant improvements.

Thomas Tobin has been appointed Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Railveyor Technologies Global Inc.

After 6 years at TC Energy, Natasha Westover will now lead strategic community relations and stakeholder engagement for Western LNG LLC projects, including the PRGT Pipeline and Ksi Lisims LNG.

AWARDS

Deadline announced: Site Service Awards nominations end Nov. 21

Time is running out to be part of Canadian construction’s next big awards program. The nomination window will close on Nov. 21. Give your top performers the recognition they deserve by heading over to siteserviceawards.com and letting us know why they shine. We will host a reception dinner to toast the winners and craft a commemorative book highlighting them using professional photos and in-depth storytelling.

🗞 HEADLINES

🦾 Robo-factory: Promise Robotics has launched a 60,000-square-foot prefabricated homebuilding factory in Calgary, aiming to accelerate housing production amid Alberta’s urgent demand for 9,000 new homes annually. Using AI-driven robots, the facility can produce single-family, semi-detached, and multi-family units in weeks, partnering with Mattamy Homes to scale two master-planned communities. 

🚒 Gas fire: Seven construction workers were hospitalized—four with life-threatening injuries—after a gas explosion occurred Tuesday morning in the boiler room of a high-rise under construction in Toronto. Fire crews arrived to find multiple workers with burns but no active fire. All workers were evacuated as emergency teams responded, and the Ministry of Labour has launched an investigation into the uncommon type of gas explosion.

💰$1M donation: PCL Construction is donating $1.5 million to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to support mental health and addiction programs, the company said on World Mental Health Day. The donation will fund curated programming and education tools aimed at helping construction workers and their families address mental health challenges and addiction

🤝 CEO secrets: At the ICBA Construction Innovation Summit, CEOs Chris Gower (PCL), Adam Phillippe (Pomerleau), and Teri McKibbon (Bird Construction) discussed how technology, leadership, and culture are shaping the future of construction.

🧠 LEADERSHIP

Resources for professional development

• POV: You run a €1.5 billion construction company

• Rekindling builder-led coordination

• Canada’s top construction CEOs talk shop

• Contractor advice: 3 fatal leadership mistakes

• Winners take risks

💬 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"If you can end up in handcuffs for stealing a pack of gum, why is it acceptable to withhold payment from the people who build our cities?" - Andrew Fettback, President, Fettback & Heesterman, on B.C.’s new prompt payment legislation

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