Title: Working with the Construction Industry Update on CSC Activities
1Working with the Construction Industry Update
on CSC Activities
- Canadian Construction Convention
- March 10, 2005
- Cancun, Mexico
2Presentation Agenda
- Labour Market Information Program
- Regional Network
- Engaging Users of Construction Services
- New Research
- Career Awareness
- Boilermakers
- Ironworker Aboriginal
- Construction Careers Portal
- Standards and Skills Development
- Supervisory Training Scoping Exercise
- Essential Skills
- Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
- Canadian Home Inspectors and Building Officials
- Masonry On The Job Training
- Carpenter ICCCS Implementation Impact Study
- Mobility Accessibility of Operating Engineers
- Construction Management Education Council
3LMI Program
- Labour Market Information (LMI) is the
cornerstone of the CSCs activity - Drives future CSC work
- Provides industry with accurate information and
tools to assist in HR decision making - Assists government in policy making
- Assists in determining Apprenticeship enrolments
- Supports career awareness and selection
- LMI programs products and services are directed
at owners/users of construction, industry,
governments, career decision-makers
4We Have a Regional Network!
- LMI committees are operational
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Atlantic
- Currently validating the forecasts for 38 trades
- Will be publishing the first forecasts in Spring
2005 - Will release a national outlook report
- Each Regional Network Committee will work with
the CSC to release a provincial/regional outlook
report - The outlook reports will contain investment
demand and an assessment of the labour supply - First attempt to provide comprehensive
forecasting capability for the construction
industry and will be refined over time -
5National Owners Committee
- Established National Owners Committee
- Proposed composition
- Government (federal, provincial, municipal)
- Resources
- Utilities
- Manufacturing
- P3 (private, public, partnerships)
- Property Developers
- Proposed activities include
- Supply/demand labour requirements
- Owner demand information
- Large projects list by province
- Maintenance / shutdown information
- Information on types of skills required for
construction work
6Working with Construction Owners
- Labour Supply Diagnostic Service
- Provided CNRL, Shell, Opti-NEXEN, and Suncor with
analyses to better address construction workforce
requirements - Assisted owners in assessing the labour
availability risk when undertaking projects. - Assessed available labour supply using labour
supply and demand forecast and other sources of
information - Web-based Data Input Mechanism
- Being undertaken in partnership with the
Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA) - Develop for national use - pilot test in Alberta
- Objectives
- Easy for owners to provide demand information
- Provide a confidential web-based interface
- Obtain information from a larger base of owners
and - Ongoing data to supplement the large project
lists
7Watch for New Developments
- Publish the first national, provincial, and
economic region forecasts in Spring 2005 - Further developments and refinements to the
approach to supply side modeling - Labour mobility behavioural factors
- Regional Network validation
- Will publish results of 6 research projects in
the Spring 2005 - Aboriginal Construction Training Infrastructure
- Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Credentials
- Labour Mobility
- Breadth and Depth of Skills
- Impact of Compulsory and Voluntary Certification
8Boilermaker Career Awareness
- LMI demonstrated shortages
- All promotional materials have been approved and
produced - Potential partners (help get the message out) are
being contacted to make them aware of the
campaign - boilermaker.ca is now live
- Comments on website
- If I were a skilled or unskilled tradesperson
looking for work, I would find this site useful.
I think many industries and sub-sectors should
have sites like this. - Boiler making rocks!
- Excellent site.
9Ironworker Aboriginal Career Awareness
- Objective
- LMI demonstrated shortages
- Partnership between the CSC and the Aboriginal
Human Resource Development Council of Canada - Develop a national ironworker awareness campaign
aimed at Aboriginal youth - Promote the ironworker trade to Aboriginal youth
and encourage them to get into ironwork as soon
as possible - Share generic aspects of the campaign across
Canada with other trades facing shortages - Working with British Columbia Construction
Association
10Construction Careers Portal
- Vision for the portal
- Opportunity to promote careers in construction
- Gateway to other related sites
- Developed wireframe
- Conducting research into each of the construction
trades/ occupations and writing content - Negotiated rights to use video content from Trade
Up
Design Concept
11CSC and CAF Shrink Package
- Proposing to develop shrink package career
awareness kit for each province based on needs
identified through the CSCs LMI program - This would be a targeted career awareness
approach (demand supply) - Shrink package would consist of
- CAF material
- CSC trade / occupation information
- What the trade / occupation is about .
- Educational Toolkit for teachers, counselors,
employers, parents, pre-apprentices - Career paths
- Will work with local industry and government
authorities
12Supervisory Training Scoping Exercise
- Definition of supervisor
- For the purposes of this project, a front-line
supervisor is defined as an individual who
supervises one or more people directly involved
in the hands-on work of construction - Project Objectives
- To share information on existing supervisory
training in residential and other construction
sectors - To discuss the needs for supervisory training
- To develop a plan of action for a national
approach to supervisory training. - Advisory committee established with CCA
representation - Conduct primary and secondary research
- Based on research develop strategy and
implementation plan - Project to be completed by June 2005
13Essential Skills Strategy Implementation
- The elements of the CSCs strategy to be
addressed first are - Inventory of essential skills resources and tools
relevant to the construction industry - National Essential Skills Coordinating Committee
- Standards guide book for construction industry
essential skills assessment tools - Essential skills brochure
- Received approval from HRSDC
- Project will start March 2005
14Prior Learning Assessment Recognition
- Joint project with Atlantic Home Builders and
Renovators Sector Council - Developing PLAR model for residential sector
- Establish PLAR standards and procedures to
identify and recognize specific skills and
knowledge of occupations in new home building and
residential renovation sector - Share generic aspects with all construction
sectors - Project to be completed by December 2005
15Canadian Home Inspectors Building Officials
- Develop a certification and accreditation model
to be used by the home and property inspectors
(HPI) and the municipal building officers (MBO). - Model based on the National Occupational
Standards (NOS) developed for both the HPIs and
the MBOs in 2001. - The certification and accreditation model being
developed is based on the ISO standard. - Project Timeline The Model will be completed in
early 2005. A National Model could be
implemented by late 2005 or early 2006
16Masonry On-The-Job Training
- Working with Canadian Masonry Human Resources
Committee to develop best practices handbook for
the on-the-job component of apprenticeship
training - Four phases of activity
- Research
- Development of tools
- Marketing and roll out
- Evaluation
- Generic aspects of handbook will be shared with
other construction groups - Project just approved first meeting held in
February 05 - Two year project
17Carpenter ICCCS Study
- The objectives of this project are to
- examine the extent to which the Carpenter ICCCS
has been implemented in each province/territory - assess the impact of the introduction of the
common core curriculum standards in the Carpenter
trade in relation to - the delivery of training
- the outcomes of the training
- Carpenter mobility and
- cost.
- make recommendations based on the analysis of the
impact of the inter-provincial common core
curriculum standards on the delivery of Carpenter
apprenticeship training.
18Mobility Accessibility of Operating Engineers
- Develop National Occupational Standards for 29
Operating Engineers Occupations
- 1. Crane and Hoisting
- Mobile hydraulic boom
- Mobile lattice boom
- Tower
- Boom Truck
- Foundation and Shoring
- Float Driver
- 2. Heavy Equipment
- Scraper
- Bulldozer
- Grader
- Gradall
- Compactor
- 3, Heavy Equipment
- Excavator
- Tractor-Loader-Backhoe
- 4. Heavy Equipment
- Rock Truck/Articulated Haul Vehicle
- Loader
- 5 Utilities
- Directional Drill
- Ditcher/Trencher
- 6. Paving
- Asphalt Paver Operator
- Concrete Spreader
- Roller
- 7. Plant Operations
- Concrete
- Asphalt
- Aggregate
- 8. Hazmat
- Equipment Operator
- Environmental Technician
- 9. Material Handling
- Forklift
- Zoom-Boom
- Man and Material Hoist
- 10. Concrete Pumping
19Construction Management Education Council
- CSC reviewing infrastructure available to
establish a career path within construction - Industry would like to assume greater control of
the quality and format of construction management
instruction - Uniform paths to construction management training
and certification, that combine experience,
competency testing and formal training - Enhances the image of the industry through
effective promotion of construction management
career opportunities - Construction managers from smaller communities
have to travel to larger communities to access
professional development -
20Construction Management Education Council
- To establish a clearinghouse of construction
management training that leads to nationally
recognized certification and accreditation in
construction management training - Standardizes quality criteria for the types of
courses to be offered - Based on the above criteria, identify existing
construction management courses common across all
sectors - Where gaps exist, develop new courses based on
national standards - Provide venue for offering online courses
21Construction Management Education Council
- CSC proposing to undertake research project to
determine infrastructure needed to establish
career path within construction that leads to a
Certificate for Construction Management (CCM) - Four streams
- Residential Sector
- Institutional and Commercial (led by Gold Seal)
- Heavy Industrial
- Civil Engineering
- Establish PLAR program
- Branded to compete with recognized professional
designations that are recognized by parents,
youth, and guidance counsellors
22THANK YOU ! For additional information about CSC
initiatives contact Construction Sector
Council 220 Laurier Ave. W, Suite 1150 Ottawa,
Ontario K1P 5Z9 Tel (613) 569-5552 Fax (613)
569-1220 Email gritziotis_at_csc-ca.org