After a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are excited to be back once again at the Royal Ontario Golf Club to raise funds for the Construction Education Council and its exceptional education programming for the industry!

This annual tournament directs all funds raised to support our ability to provide the mechanical contracting industry with ongoing and innovative new educational programming. The fundraising from this tournament will be put toward a major CEC project!

Learn more about our annual tournament and plan to join us on Sept. 29.

Dear MCA Canada members,

The deadline to apply for one of the many scholarships offered by MCA Canada through our Richard McKeagan Scholarship Series in partnership with the Construction Education Council and our Associate Members is coming up fast on Aug. 27.

You probably already know that our association and our valued partners will award close to $16,000 this year in the form scholarships to students studying in the mechanical contracting and mechanical engineering fields.

But did you also know that we have scholarships open to a wide range of students and apprentices, including women and Indigenous people?

There's never been a better time than now to share this great news — and this great program — with your colleagues and employees.

Learn more at https://mcac.ca/our-programs/scholarships.

You are invited to participate in a review of the draft of the new Red Seal Occupational Standard for the Steamfitter/Pipefitter trade for Canada.

A draft of the standard was developed at a national virtual workshop attended by trade experts and apprenticeship instructors from across Canada. After this online survey is completed, provincial and territorial industry and apprenticeship committees will also review and validate this standard. In preparation for this step, we would like to give individuals who would like to participate the opportunity to do so.

For this trade, the standard is divided into Major Work Activities, which are broken down into Tasks, which are further broken down into distinct Sub-Tasks.

The survey is completely voluntary and is anonymous, though if you possess a Red Seal, the first digits of your Red Seal number will be requested (these do not identify any individual).

All comments will be forwarded to your province/territory’s apprenticeship authority to review with their committees for consideration.

To complete the survey, please click below.

Steamfitter/Pipefitter RSOS Validation Survey

You can start the survey and resume at a later time, as long as you work from the same device (laptop, tablet, smartphone) every time. Please note that the deadline to complete the survey is Aug. 30, 2021.

Thank you for participating in the survey.

The Mechanical Contractors Association of Canada and the Construction Education Council are once again proud to present the exclusive Gold Seal and Blue Seal Accredited Project Management Program. This highly acclaimed program is offered in partnership with the University of Waterloo.

Our fall program will be held online once again, and will be offered two days a week for 10 weeks between September and December. This will mark the 41st session offered with nearly 900 industry managers graduating from the program.

This course is one of our premiere offerings. Learn more, and sign up today!

CanBIM is hosting a special event on Aug. 25. The CanBIM Technical Summit on Construction Estimating will offer informative and innovative insights into how companies can work on improving the estimating process while navigating the unique challenges and opportunities in the industry today.

Attend this half-day event at no charge to hear about the latest technology and tools available to improve your processes and productivity.

MCA Canada is a proud member of CanBIM.

Source: HistoryNet.com

1743: By the Treaty of Abo, Sweden cedes southeast Finland to Russia, ending Sweden's failed war with Russia.
1812: Napoleon Bonaparte's army defeats the Russians at the Battle of Smolensk during the Russian retreat to Moscow.
1833: The first steam ship to cross the Atlantic entirely on its own power, the Canadian ship Royal William, begins her journey from Nova Scotia to The Isle of Wight.
1943: Allied forces complete the conquest of Sicily.
1960: American Francis Gary Powers pleads guilty at his Moscow trial for spying over the Soviet Union in a U-2 plane.
1978: Three Americans complete the first crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon.
1987: 93-year-old Rudolf Hess, former Nazi leader and deputy of Adolf Hitler, is found hanged to death in Spandau Prison.
1988: Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq is killed in an airplane crash suspected of being an assassination.
1998: President Bill Clinton admits to the American public that he had affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1999: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake near Izmit, Turkey kills over 17,000 and injures nearly 45,000.
2005: Israel begins the first forced evacuation of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, as part of a unilateral disengagement plan.
2012: Moscow's top court upholds ban of gay pride events in Russia's capital city for 100 years.