EPIC Training - Applied Soil Mechanics and Shoring Design Designed to meet the national competency standards for the installation of primary ground support, this course provides practical training on shoring design. This course will review the related soil mechanics knowledge and show you how to apply soil mechanics theory to trenching and shoring design. The…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Bitesize Bluebeam for Civil Workflows Yes, there are tools in Bluebeam Revu for Civil Designers and Engineers! In this course you will learn not only navigation and markups but workflows like Calibrating Plan & Profile drawings with different X-Y scales, ideas for Cut & Fill calculations, combining several PDFs into…  Read more

Passive House Canada - Passive House Construction Training Course for Trades Theoretical & Practical (In-person) This three-part course teaches practical Passive House building techniques and theory about this high-performance building standard. This course includes online lectures and hands-on workshop experience, incorporating actual building of Passive House elements relevant to the Canadian construction industry. Date: October…  Read more

Passive House Canada - Pathway to Passive House Trades Certification (150P) (Hybrid) This three-part course teaches practical Passive House building techniques and theory about this high-performance building standard. This course includes online lectures and hands-on workshop experience, incorporating actual building of Passive House elements relevant to the Canadian construction industry. Date: October 20, 21, 22,…  Read more

Cascadia Windows & Doors - Tackling Window Pain: Understanding the Benefits of High-Performance Fenestration As jurisdictions across North America introduce more stringent building energy performance standards (BEPS)—such as the BC Step Code and Seattle 2018 update—developers, architects, and contractors are left wondering the best way to meet the new benchmarks while controlling costs. This balance…  Read more

EPIC Training - Avoiding Construction Overruns and Managing Construction Disputes This course deals with the issues that cause construction overruns in time and cost, the resulting disputes, and the means to minimize their impact on a project’s success. The first step is selecting the most appropriate project delivery system and analyzing and managing the anticipated…  Read more

Passive House Canada - 120B: Understanding & Working with PHPP Understanding and Working with PHPP will enable you to take on your first Passive House project. It provides step-by-step instruction for using the PHPP energy modelling software, which is essential for designing a Passive House building. Participants will learn the structure, inputs and outputs of…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Project Delivery Methods - "Know Your Responsibilities!" Whether you are a Project Owner, Consultant, or Contractor, understanding the many different project delivery options for a particular project is critical to its success. Some of the considerations to be taken into account when deciding on and participating in the appropriate project…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Lead to Succeed: Leadership Skills for Foremen Lead to Succeed is an eight-hour interactive course designed to help you discover a more effective way of leading your team — starting with yourself. The course is broken into four 2-hour sections delivered twice weekly over two weeks, in which we will…  Read more

Vancouver Regional Construction Association - Construction Estimating Participants will acquire knowledge how to prepare a successful bid and learn construction estimating skills. Course topics will include project analysis, risk analysis, bid strategies and processes, Construction Division Codes, bonding and insurance. Date: October 25-28, 2022 Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (each day) Location: Online Cost: $650…  Read more