Value of Building Permits Drops in August After Increases in June and July
The total value of building permits decreased 3.7% to $7.5 billion in August, following increases of 15.5% in June and 0.7% in July…
Southwestern Electric Ltd.
Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Brad Fraser was on the path to becoming a mechanical engineer when life events led him to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps in the electrical business in 1971. “My mother was ill, so I stayed home to take care of her,” reminisces Fraser, about how he got started…
Three Reasons Lighting is an Investment
Every project has a budget…
Electrical Contractor Fined $80,000 After Two Workers Suffer Burns
An overhead and underground utility contractor has pleaded guilty and has been fined $80,000 after two workers suffered burns while working on electrical equipment that had not been properly shut off. The incident occurred at a Toronto condo building in February 2014. The two workers were from Powerline Plus, which was under contract to Toronto Hydro.
New Housing Construction Up 0.5% in July
Spending on new housing construction was $4.2 billion in July, up 0.5% from the same month a year earlier.Nationally, the gain came from higher investment in apartment and apartment-condominium building construction, which increased 17.5% to $1.4 billion and also, to a lesser extent, in row house construction, which rose 6.3% to $395 million…
