The Return to Normal
By / Bruce Sychuk, Executive Director, SMACNA-BC It was recently confirmed that British Columbia has completed Step 1 the four-step BC COVID-19 Restart Plan. If all goes well with more vaccinations, low case counts, and […]
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Care vs Compliance: Making Them Care About Safety
By Kevin Burns Everybody cares about something. And they do care about it… in their own way. The challenge in getting your people to care about safety lies largely with how they understand and interpret […]
Why Electronically Commutated (EC) Motors?
By Norm Grusnick, P.Eng., ECCO Supply Industry today consumes roughly 40 percent of the world’s electricity. Two-thirds of that electricity is used to power electric motors. AC motors are the workhorses of industry, yet they […]
Mentoring: Our Industry Succession Strategy
(Gen X And Millennials, You’re Up!) By Mark Breslin, CEO, brezlin.biz If I objectively analyze the foundation of my construction career, I find that my leadership success can probably be credited to several guys in […]
Fire! Fire! Force Majeure Clauses
By Matthew T Potomak, and Liam Robertson, Kuhn LLP Particularly since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, contractors and other companies are increasingly more interested in implementing force majeure clauses in their contracts. A force […]