MCA Canada is pleased to announce three new online training programs in September.

• The Project Improvement Program is a webinar and coaching program designed to help contractors and their production teams take charge of projects and determine the most profitable way to proceed.
• In Project Scheduling Basics, you will learn tools to understand the concepts of building more realistic project schedules.
• Microsoft Project Essentials will provide participants with the hands-on skills to plan and manage project activities using Microsoft Project.

Check out our Event Calendar for more information about these sessions and any other education training sessions we have planned.

To better understand the current state and impact of design documents in Canada’s design and construction industry, the Ryerson Institute for Infrastructure Innovation (RIII) was commissioned to undertake a study on “The Impact of Pre-Project Investment and Quality of Documents on Project Delivery Efficiencies.”

As a part of the study, this nationwide online survey aims to collect data and opinions from construction professionals on questions relating to the quality of design documents. Trade contractors from across Canada can provide valuable input to this study by participating in an online survey. The survey results will be confidential, and no identifiers of any participant will be published.

Please participate in the survey. Visit https://lnkd.in/gQShAEJ

Source: HistoryNet.com
1762: Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland.
1815: A peace treaty with Tripoli, which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis, brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
1858: The first transatlantic cable is completed.
1861: Congress adopts the nation's first income tax to finance the Civil War.
1892: Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War.
1914: The first electric traffic signal lights are installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
1914: The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I.
1941: The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union.
1951: The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas.
1962: Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances.
1964: President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam.
1974: President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons.
1981: President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.
1992: Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King.
1997: The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial.
2012: A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide.