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A look into Canada’s precast concrete industry through this coast-to-coast video highlighting the people, processes, and products that support Canada’s cities, communities, and critical underground infrastructure. From the manufacturing process to the project installation, we show the precision, scale, and craftsmanship that go into building the systems below ground that help support everything above ground. Whether […]
Collaboration, Education, and Industry Growth in Montreal Welcome Reception & Trade Show: CCPPA and CPCI The Canadian Concrete Pipe & Precast Association (CCPPA) gathered members, suppliers, and international guests in Montreal this October for its 2025 Fall Meetings. A week focused on collaboration, education, and industry growth. In partnership with the Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute […]
Over the past two months, more than 400 inspectors, engineers, and precast professionals from British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario joined CCPPA for a cross-country series of Inspector Information Session – and the response was nothing short of exceptional. These weren’t just slide decks and handouts. Instead, the sessions turned into vibrant spaces for sharing knowledge, […]
The recently completed Coniston Seniors housing complex located in the greater Sudbury area provides affordable housing to seniors in the local Coniston area. In addition, the 56,000-square-foot apartment complex is designed as a net zero energy building. The project was designed by Sheena Sharp from Coolearth Architects, and the General Contractor was Ron Belanger Construction. […]
In HBO’s new hit series, The Last of Us, you probably noticed a key part of the set – the Quarantine Zone Wall with the word “WELCOME” written on it. That precast concrete wall was designed and manufactured by Proform Construction Products at our Calgary plant. Proform was contacted by the art director in April […]
The Greater Toronto Area (GTA), which includes the City of Toronto, Regions of Peel, Halton, York, and Durham, continues to see significant year-over-year growth. From 2021 to 2022, the population grew to 6,313,000 at just under 1% (0.93%). Given this continued expansion of the GTA and its surrounding municipalities, developable land is becoming more costly, […]
We need concrete, and a lot of it, as housing is getting desperate. We need to decarbonize, and that, too, is getting desperate. With concrete representing 8% of the world’s carbon emissions and its most required building material, how will we square this circle? Where to begin? Let us start with where all the carbon […]
The Town of Orangeville, northwest of Toronto, was expanding one of its main arterial roads, Hansen Boulevard. As a part of this expansion, Hansen Boulevard would need to span the Monora Creek. Greck and Associate Limited, together with Entuitive Consulting Engineers, specified a precast open bottom arch concrete culvert for the project. Coldstream Concrete proposed […]
WSP Canada Inc. (WSP) was retained by the City of Toronto to undertake the preliminary and detailed design for the replacement of the Scarlett Road culvert over Humber Creek. The culvert is located under Scarlett Road in the City of Toronto, Ontario, approximately 0.72 km north of Eglinton Avenue West and 1.1 km south of […]
The City of Edmonton has been working on revitalizing and rejuvenating the downtown core for the last several years. One of their recent projects is the “Imagine Jasper Avenue” project (Phase 1). Jasper Avenue is Edmonton’s premier Main Street, connecting the West End to Downtown. The goal of the Imagine Jasper project is to restore […]
