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Upcoming developments for the Gold Seal certification program

August 29, 2011

There are several exciting initiatives currently underway for the Gold Seal certification program. Over the next three months you will notice significant improvements to our brand, communications, web presence and on-going training. We are also planning to launch an online application and registration process. Read more

Gold Seal survey result summary: Gold Seal Certification an asset when looking for a new job

August 3, 2011

In June 2011 the Gold Seal certification program conducted online surveys among recent certificate holders (Gold Seal Certified (GSC) and Professional, Gold Seal Certified (P.GSC)), Gold Seal Interns (GSI) as well as Gold Seal Champions. The survey was very well received and yielded 382 responses. Read more

Municipal Group of Companies provides training for Atlantic Canada construction leaders

July 18, 2011

A major construction contractor based in Nova Scotia is taking an unusual approach to employee education with an ambitious training initiative tailored to supervisors. Read more

Gold Seal Project celebration at SAIT’s Trades & Technology Complex

July 13, 2011

On what was probably the hottest day Calgary has seen all summer, the Calgary Construction Association (CCA) in partnership with SAIT Polytechnic and PCL Construction Management hosted the Gold Seal Designated Project Celebration at the SAIT campus on July 6, 2011. Read more

Canadian Construction Association Honours National Awards Recipients

March 25, 2011

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 16, 2011) - The Canadian Construction Association presented its National Awards to honour excellence and outstanding contributions of the people and companies who make up the non-residential construction industry in Canada. The award ceremony took place during the CCA's 93nd Annual Conference, March 9, 2011. Read more

Gold Seal Day at the Canadian Construction Association’s annual conference highlights skills training success

March 25, 2011

The success of the Gold Seal certification was front and centre at the Canadian Construction Association’s annual conference, with a designated Gold Seal Day set aside for the program. Read more

A 4th Gold Seal project for ACQ - Québec Region (French only)

November 24, 2010

Le 14 octobre 2010, se tenait à l’hôtel Château Laurier, le lancement du 4ième projet Sceau d’or de l’ACQ - Région de Québec.

Près de 100 personnes ont participé à cet événement qui fut une réussite à tout point de vue. Le comité régional sceau d’or de l’ACQ - région de Québec a obtenu la collaboration de SSQ Immobilier inc. et du constructeur Verreault inc. pour faire de « La Cité Verte » le quatrième projet Sceau d’or de notre région.
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Construction focus of new degree program

July 24, 2010
By: Mike Moore

THOSE seeking to launch or advance a successful career in the building industry will get a boost this fall when classes get underway in Red River College's new Construction Management degree program.

Designed to help those in the skilled trades and engineering technologies bridge into further post-secondary education, the new offering focuses on residential construction, heavy construction and industrial/commercial construction. It is the first degree program approved by the province since Manitoba colleges received degree-granting authority in 2009.
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Gold Seal Champions promote accreditation program to industry

July 9, 2010
DAN O’REILLY

This is a special designation given to contractors who display a continued commitment to employing, training and fostering Gold Seal designation among their employees, as well as some financial support for the program.
At a recent OGCA board meeting the directors donned special GSC shirts which they wear at social functions such as golf tournaments. On the jobsite they will also wear hardhats with champion stickers.

Ball Construction begins first Gold Seal managed project in Ontario

Participating companies all have certified supervisory personnel
A $25 million addition to The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo is being undertaken as a Gold Seal-managed project, the first of its kind in the province. Read more

Summa - SKMG Construction

By Lori Sichtermann   

Included in the MOST Canada Group of Companies is Summa– SKMG Construction, a combination of Summa Management and SKMG Construction. Since 2009, when the two divisions joined forces, Summa-SKMG has become a well-known player in the Canadian construction market by offering clients the combined strength of construction management and general contracting. Read more

University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus promotes Gold Seal certification

RICHARD GILBERT
staff writer

Workers on a construction site in Kelowna were encouraged to consider Gold Seal certification and the project is also being used to raise awareness about the national program.

The still-unfinished engineering and management building a the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Okanagan campus was selected to showcase the benefits of certification. Read more

Condition of Contract

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Gold Seal designation launched

From the Daily Commercial News - August 22, 2006
PATRICIA WILLIAMS, Staff Writer
TORONTO

Certification calls for annual skills upgrading

The Canadian Construction Association’s (CCA) Gold Seal committee is upgrading the national management certification program with the launch of a Professional, Gold Seal Certified (P.GSC) designation and development of an integrated quality framework. Read more

Good news for Gold Seal

From Construction Comment - September 2006
JAMES RAISWELL, Editor
OTTAWA

When the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) launched its Gold Seal certification in 1993, its aim was to promote and recognize the highest standards of achievement for the industry’s project managers, superintendents and estimators.

At the time, however, the expectation surely must have been that the industry would promote this certification as the standard of choice and that Gold Seal would develop under its own momentum to become a national standard for construction excellence. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, this has not has been the case. Today, recognized Gold Seal Certificate holders across the country number just shy of 6,000 and growth in new holders, while steady, remains slow.

All this, however, may be changing, thanks in part to a motion in the B.C. interior, by the municipalities of Kamloops and Kelowna in particular, to require Gold Seal certification for project managers or site supervisors as a condition of contract for jobs valued at over $2 million (and over $1 million, beginning in January). (A move that mirrors one already in place for certain construction projects administered by the Province of New Brunswick.) Read more