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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 (en anglais seulement)

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 (en anglais seulement)

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 (en anglais seulement)

Condition of Contract

Discussions across the country are leading to new developments in Condition of Contract. Click for details (en anglais seulement).

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 (en anglais seulement)

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 (en anglais seulement)