CLR Connector July 2022

Welcome to the July edition of the CLR CONNECTOR.

We would like to start off with several important announcements.

First, we are pleased to welcome onboard Glen Williams, CLR’s new Director, Health & Safety. With the addition of Glen to our team, we are re-launching the…

As a new member of the CLR team, it is a pleasure to introduce myself as the new Director of Health and Safety at CLR. As a health and safety professional, I have worked in many heavy industrial workplaces including shipyards and container terminals.…

Earlier this year, we reminded our members to nominate candidates for the Future Leaders in Construction committee. We were delighted to receive a considerable number of responses indicating your interest in this newest initiative.

CLR Future Leaders will play an instrumental role in shaping the…

On June 14th we held our Annual Ben Backman Memorial Industry Leaders Golf Tournament at the Northview Golf & Country Club. We want to thank all of the sponsors and guests for coming out and supporting this great event, benefiting the Royal Columbian Hospital…

REGISTRATION is open for CLR’s 53rd Annual General Meeting and Conference.

This year’s event will take place at the Delta Grand Okanagan Resort, in the heart of Canada’s wine country, and ideally located on the shores of the majestic Okanagan Lake in downtown Kelowna.

We invite…

The fifth industrial revolution is known as Industry 5.0 and is required to provide better interaction between humans and machines to achieve effective and faster outcomes. Digital technologies provide a new paradigm in manufacturing and construction, which focuses on a 4-point framework: People, Collaboration,…

With new technologies and digital tools becoming more commonplace across various industries, the construction sector is not necessarily pioneering the trend. A report done by a team at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, and supported by the Future Skills Centre, attempts to…

Statistics Canada data shows the number of job vacancies increased 2.7% from the previous peak in the fourth quarter as the pool of unemployed workers shrunk to half the level in the first quarter of 2021.

Employers in the construction industry found it challenging to…

According to a recent B.C. Coroners Service report zeroing in on 872 overdose deaths in B.C., more than half of the employed people in the province who died of an overdose worked in construction. Substance abuse is commonly found with many types of traumas…