Podcasts about centre block

On this episode of The Construction Record Podcast™, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with Thomas Strong, the president and CEO of Building Transformations, about the organization's upcoming industry summit focused on sustainability and ESG, as well as the challenges of getting to net-zero and the opportunities digital technology offers to reach sustainability goals. Strong said energy consumption, emission reduction and on-site power generation have to be addressed and that digital technologies can help improve adoption and accelerate innovation. He added COVID-19's net effect is that more people will work from home which will mean less consumption on site, but already-built assets can also be retrofit and repurposed as residential, vertical farms, data centers and other uses. He said the upcoming summit at the University of British Columbia campus on Oct 11-12 will bring together architects, engineers, builders and developers to examine how to improve building efficiencies. Additionally a closed-door session involving government, industry and other stakeholders looking at how to make meaningful change at present. We also have the latest headlines from the Daily Commercial News and the Journal of Commerce, including a look at TimberFever, the annual design-build competition in Toronto that teams up architectural and civil engineering students from various universities. It celebrated its ninth edition with the project theme of an accessible transit shelter connected to a protected bicycle storage space. Daily Commercial News staff writer Angela Gismondi also has a story about how structural steel reuse is assisting with sustainability for the massive Centre Block rehab project, including taking steel from demolished structures and implementing it the new structure in order to take advantage of embodied carbon. From the west, Manitoba made history on Oct. 3 as it elected provincial NDP leader Wab Kinew as the first First Nations premier in Canada's history. Digital media editor Warren Frey also has a story about how an uptick in mental health and diabetes is driving benefits costs up featuring an interview with Independent Contractors and Businesses Association president Chris Gardner. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast section. Our previous interview with Dr. Guido Wimmers, the new dean of the British Columbia Institute of Technology's School of Construction and the Environment is here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services Building Transformations: Reenvisioning Commercial Real Estate for a Net Zero Future TimberFever competition challenges students with transit shelter projects New funding supports Hamilton energy-efficiency studies Centre Block rehab a prime example of structural steel reuse Manitoba NDP to form majority government in historic win for First Nations premier ICBA warns mental health and diabetes crises driving benefits costs up

On this episode of The Construction Record Podcast, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with ConstructConnect chief economist Alex Carrick and senior economist Michael Guckes about recent strike actions and the ongoing labour crunch affecting Canada and the United States. Michael cited a recent report from the National Federation of Independent Business which cites the need for labour as the number one concern for small businesses across the United States, and Alex pointed to increased immigration as one possible safety valve for the Canadian labour crunch with the caveat that more new arrivals to Canada means a need for more housing, infrastructure and services. Warren also looks into the latest headlines on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce, including a crane collapse in New York, a major cabinet shuffle for Justin Trudeau's liberal government and a big win for staff at an LNG Canada worker lodge in Kitimat, B.C. with an up to 40 per cent rise in pay. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast section. Our previous episode featuring Public Services and Procurement Canada senior director of construction Siavash Mohajer about renovation of the Centre Block of Parliament here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services Asphalt contractor fined $125,000 after pedestrian killed in work zone Trudeau announces major cabinet shakeup, seven new ministers Fire on New York construction crane causes arm to collapse and hit a building as it falls Yorkville condo features unique flatiron design with a special twist Staff at lodge for LNG workers in Kitimat, B.C., win 40% pay bump, averting strike Truck explosion in Langley, B.C., felt like an earthquake: witness PCI proposes two 39-storey towers near Port Moody SkyTrain station

On this episode of The Construction Record Podcast, digital media editor Warren Frey speaks with Siavash Mohajer, the senior director of construction at Public Services and Procurement Canada about renovation of the Centre Block of Parliament in Ottawa, a massive project to transform the structure for the 21st century while preserving its heritage aspects. Mohajer detailed improvements to Canada's seat of democracy including extensive seismic mitigation and strengthening of IT, ventilation and other infrastructure. He also spoke to the new underground vistors reception area, a new addition which is not only a more welcoming way for tourists and other visitors to see Parliament but also serves as a substantial security upgrade. You can listen to The Construction Record on the Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce websites as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music's podcast section. Our previous episode featuring British Columbia Construction Association president Chris Atchison and Sheri Andrews-Key, the director of micro-certificate programming with the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry, is here. Thanks for listening. DCN-JOC News Services   Centre Block construction within cost, but faster decisions needed: AG Once prestigious 24 Sussex full of rodents, carcasses: National Capital Commission   Ontario legislature eyes full shutdown for major renovations; likely to cost over $1B Parliament Hill's Centre Block rehabilitation a carefully planned overhaul

What is better than reviewing one Gretsch? Reviewing two... In this episode Matt takes the Gretsch 140th Anniversary Platinum Jet and Centre Block guitars for a spin in the studio and road tests them on stage. These guitars comprise part of the rad new Gretsch range celebrating 140 years of Gretsch history. Special guests Paul Brouwer and Jem Magtibay offer sage Filtertron wisdom. https://moonwoodmusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@JemmyJems http://www.guitarspeakpodcast.com/e/glyn-evans-mr-glyns-pickups-gsp-227/ This episode is brought to you by Fretboard Biology - the online guitar college created by Joe Elliott, ex head of guitar at GIT and McNally Smith Music College. Fretboard Biology Guitar Speak Podcast #146 - Joe Elliott - ex guitar head of GIT - launches Fretboard Biology Guitar Speak Podcast #40 - Joe Elliott   Guitar Speak Podcast Links PayPal Tip Jar Visit us at guitarspeakpodcast.com Subscribe and find previous episodes at: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher   Follow us on Facebook & Instagram

Graham Richardson, filling in for Evan Solomon, speaks with Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Katharine Smart on what doctors across Canada expect out of the premier's meeting and how the health system requires immediate action from all levels of government. On today's show:  John Reynolds, Patrick Brown's national campaign co-chair, provides an update on Brown's disqualification from the Conservative leadership race.  Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the Canadian Medical Association, on the premier's meeting in B.C. Dr. Daria Denissova and Dr. Philip Stasiak, two young ER doctors who quit their Montreal jobs, blaming Quebec's broken health-care system and Bill 96. Tasha Kheiriddin, author and principal at Navigator, discusses her new book, ‘The Right Path: How Conservatives can Unite, Inspire and Take Canada Forward'. Stephen Jarrett, lead archeologist for the Centre Block rehabilitation project, on over 200,000 artifacts discovered during the dig on Parliament Hill. Mike Shoreman, the ‘Unbalanced Paddleboarder' who is attempting to become the first athlete with disabilities to cross all five Great Lakes on a paddleboard this summer.

Photo:  The mother beaver on the Canadian parliament's Peace Tower.  Each of the five flowers on the shield represents an ethnicity—Tudor rose: English; Fleur de lis: French; thistle: Scottish; shamrock: Irish; and leek: Welsh. #Canada and Trudeau to Ukraine defence. @ConradMBlack https://www.thespec.com/ts/news/canada/2022/01/19/ukraine-tensions-frigate-at-high-readiness-as-it-sets-off-for-nato-mission.html ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  ..  .   Permissions: Beaver sculpture, over entrance to Centre Block of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Date | 1 July 2011 Source | Own work Author | D. Gordon E. Robertson I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Thursday, June 17: NACI gives a late twist to AstraZeneca guidelines as Canadians hunt for second doses; an inside look at the massive renovations underway for Centre Block on Parliament Hill; and, an unlikely bond between a man and his bird.

A Conservative motion urges the House of Commons to formally censure the Defence Minister; Chrystia Freeland fires back at comments made by Green Party Leader Annamie Paul; And the current estimates for the Centre Block renovation on Parliament Hill put the cost as high as $5 billion.

The House of Commons resumes sitting today after their winter break. MPs will be in a new West Block location, while the Centre Block undergoes a decade or more of renovations. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can expect to be on the hot seat in Ottawa today over Canada's deteriorating relations with China, which resulted in his weekend firing of Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum. Guest: James Moore Former federal industry minister in the Harper government

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11:58 / February 17 ,2017 / Parliament / Parliament Hill / Home to Canada’s House of Commons, Senate, Members of Parliament and Senators / Ottawa’s parliament hill and the Peace Tower in Centre Block is a special place for all Canadians / People gather here to protest, to mourn or to celebrate, but also to play frisbee and do yoga / Tourists from all around the world come to admire the architecture and make a wish at the Centennial Flame, build in 1967, a fountain whose ledges contains the shields of 12 of Canada’s provinces and territories (only Nunavut is absent as it was created in 1999) / This recording features an international youth delegation taking photos in front of the Peace Tower / I recorded the conversations of visitors and slowly walked my way towards the Peace Tower, knowing that it would ring 12 times at noon // All recordings and Photos by Claude Schryer See the PDF: https://issuu.com/bivouacrecording/docs/60_minute_cities-_ottawa To know more about purchasing an album from us please see: https://bivouacrecording.postach.io/post/i-just-bought-an-album-when-will-i-recieve-it

Who knew you could experience separation anxiety with a building? We tour Centre Block one last time before it closes for at least a decade for renovations and learn some of its wild stories. Detailed show notes: (3:54) Joe Clark shares his first Centre Block memory (6:53) Folklore of Pierre Trudeau’s statuette-breaking stunt (13:15) Revealed: the secret Ottawa Senators carving in the Senate (17:02) 1966 bombing inside the building (23:38) Duffy’s recollection of that time Pierre Trudeau got into a shoving match with a reporter (25:34) “The most beautiful room in Canada” (27:26) That time an MP was caught butt naked in the halls

We sit down with the Prime Minister to talk about the Alberta oil crisis, immigration and Canada-China relations.  Then we take a tour of Centre Block on Parliament Hill before it closes for a aten year renovation project. Plus some MPs on the hill join us for a special Christmas story. Guests: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Johanna Mizgala,House of Commons Curator; Geoff Regan,Speaker of the House of Commons; Heather Lank,Parliamentary Librarian; Elizabeth May: Green Party Leader; Jagmeet Singh: NDP Leader; Rosemary Falk: Conservative- Battlefords –Lloydminster;Rodger Cuzner Liberal-Cape Breton-Canso; Anita Vandenbeld: Liberal-Ottawa West-Nepean; John Nater; Conservative- Perth-Wellington; Alaina Lockhart-Liberal- Fundy Royal; Gord Johns; NDP-Courtenay-Alberni; Cathy McLeod; Conservative-Kamloops-Thomspon-Cariboo; Nick Whalen; Liberal- St. John's East; Cheryl Hardcastle; NDP-Windsor-Tecumseh; Sheila Malcolmson; NDP-Nanaimo-Ladysmith; Larry Miller-Conservative-Bruce-Grey-Owen Sounds; Andrew Scheer-Conservative Party Leader; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau    

After radical reconstructive surgery, Laurent manages to release a Very Special Episode hosted by Etienne featuring guests Rachel Aiello and Dylan Robertson. See you back in 2019!

Host Sarah Turnbull invites in Marie-Danielle Smith of the National Post and Murad Hemmadi of The Logic to discuss: the geopolitical tensions brewing between the U.S., China, and Canada caused initially by the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, saying goodbye to Parliament Hill's Centre Block building for a decade-long renovation, and Kevin Hart's decision to step down from hosting the Oscars.

Host Sarah Turnbull invites in Marie-Danielle Smith of the National Post and Murad Hemmadi of The Logic to discuss: the geopolitical tensions brewing between the U.S., China, and Canada caused initially by the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, saying goodbye to Parliament Hill's Centre Block building for a decade-long renovation, and Kevin Hart's decision to step down from hosting the Oscars.

On this special episode of Explain Like I'm Five, host Aaron Reynolds visits Parliament Hill to speak with the Curator of the House of Commons Johanna Mizgala about the history and significance of the Centre Block building, shortly before it closes for a decade-long renovation.

In this special episode, host Aaron Reynolds visits Parliament Hill to talk to Curator of the House of Commons Johanna Mizgala about the history and significance of the Centre Block building, shortly before it closes for a decade-long renovation.

There is no question that Canada's seat of democracy, the Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa, was already overdue for renovation and restoration when the official process started in the 1990's. Studies, inspections, proposals, hearings and predictions play their part in all major spending programs and this huge group of projects certainly fulfilled that norm. And like all long developed and eventually delayed public works, the pricetags keep rising. To date, almost $5 Billion has been spent or budgeted for the massive undertaking. Successive reports over the last 15 years from the Auditor-General have kept a better eye on things than most heralded spending programs. With the end goal of making the buildings of Parliament prepared into their second century while not interrupting the governance of Canada, the road has been long spanning over a decade so far, with at least another decade to go. The Wellington Building has been completely renovated to house MPs and their staff, Committee rooms, a library, support services and restored to its original grandeur. The West Block is nearing the end of over 6 years of complete refit and expansion to host the House of Commons for the next decade. The iconic former Union Station and Government Conference Centre after 4 years of work will host the Senate until Centre Block is finished. The East Block is in dire need of repair and restoration but it will have to wait for a while. The first new building on the Hill in over 100 years, although mostly underground, the Visitors Welcome Centre will eventually link the 3 Blocks of Parliament and be the public entrance to all of them, maybe by 2030. Now the big question mark looms. Centre Block. There can be no further delays and it will be completely empty by the end of 2018. There is no question it will take over a Billion dollars and a decade to complete. The View Up Here provides a big picture on restoring Parliament.  

UBC researchers are leading the world towards a brighter future. To celebrate UBC's Centennial year, we are holding a series of programs that will bring the best of UBC research to communities across the country. Each program in the Centennial Speaker Series will feature key UBC researchers in areas as diverse as composite materials, labour economics, quantum materials, cancer research, clean energy, and biodiversity. The researchers briefly presented highlights from their research before answering questions from the audience. Recorded March 7, 2016, at Centre Block on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, ON. Speakers Dr. Sarah Burke – Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Nanoscience; Assistant Professor, Departments of Physics & Astronomy, and Chemistry Dr. Thomas Lemieux – Professor and Director, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC Dr. Walter Mérida – Director, Clean Energy Research Centre; Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dr. Torsten O. Nielsen – Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Associate Director, MD/PhD Program Dr. Sarah (Sally) Otto – Director, Biodiversity Research Centre; Professor, Zoology Dr. Anoush Poursartip – Director, Composites Research Network; Professor, Materials Engineering

On February 3, 1916 at 8:37 p.m., the alarm was raised on Parliament Hill that a fire had broken out in the Centre Block. By the next morning, the building had been reduced to a smoking ruin, encrusted in ice. The exact cause of the fire was never determined. In this episode Johanna Mizgala, curator for the House of Commons, takes us back to that chilling night in Canada’s history. She also discusses the bold vision of the architects charged with the task of rebuilding parliament.

New artwork, renewed commitment

New artwork, renewed commitment

-In this episode: Daniel takes Angus to Parliament Hill, the Library of Parliament, and the House of Commons. Angus is sworn in. Daniel briefs Angus on their Centre Block and constitutency offices. Angus meets the Leader of the Opposition. Daniel and Angus play ches

This week, we start Part 2 with Chapter 11 including: Daniel takes Angus to Parliament Hill, the Library of Parliament, and the House of Commons; Angus is sworn in; Daniel briefs Angus on their Centre Block and constitutency offices; Angus meets the Leader of the Opposition; Daniel and Angus play chess; Angus writes in his diary. Comments are invited right here on the blog or send me an e-mail to tfallis@gmail.com. Thanks for listening. Next week, Chapter 12. The great music featured in the podcast is by Jon Schmidt and is called Winter Serenade. It is available from the Podsafe Music Network. My friend Roger Dey provides the voice that opens the podcast. The photo at the top of the blog page was taken by, and is used with permission from, Mr. Ron Boisvert.