Can the city of PG hire some “Gold Seal” Certified employees in their road paving/maintenance and pothole repair dept?

What next?

I can’t believe I just wasted a minute of my life reading this article.

This City has gone Nuts ,self importance is the Name.

I believe this “ceremony” was more about the General Contractor (Maple Reinders) and the BC Construction Associations (PGCA & BCCA-North) trying to showcase the Gold Seal Program. This wasn’t any doing of the City – purely a photo op for dignitaries but a significant designation for Prince George – first Gold Seal Project in Northern BC.

Good luck to all the contractors on this project.

Green only deserves to be given the rotten lemon award

Well, we will see of the Gold Seal team can finish the project on time and on budget.

This designation is awarded by whom? And to which person? Shouldn’t someone get the recognition rather than the project?

I’m thinking we are being bent over the goodies will come later.Better start saving to pay for GOLD SEAL over runs.

Whoop de friggin’ do. I understand “Gold Seal” tuna stinks under certain circumstances. Sorry, Charlie.

ROTFLMFAO! Harbinger.

An MOU generally requires parties to agree to something.

The guidelines for what makes a Gold Seal Project can be downloaded and read here:
http://www.goldsealcertification.com/projects/GSPGuidelines-En28-10-09.pdf

With respect to the MOU it states:

This Memorandum of Understanding is made between:
1.Buyer of Construction Services:
2.Prime Contractor:
3.Local Construction Association:

The parties agree:
1. To promote the Gold Seal Certification Program;
2. To promote and market the Gold Seal Project;
3. Upon completion of the project, to evaluate the success of the Gold Seal Project.

As far as I can tell, the Gold Seal Program is a program designed by the industry to pull itself up by the bootstraps in order to get a better educated/trained workforce. I can see that after the leaky condo fiasco in the GVRD, that would be an attempt at avoiding a repeat of such a major failure by all those involved in that segment of the construction industry.

I especially like the wording of the last point that the parties agree – “to evaluate the success of the “Gold Seal Project”. However, in my mind there is something missing.

The first two points deal with Program and Project promotion and marketing. I think that if the evaluation is to be done only on those 2 objectives, and not on how the fact that there were people in the certification Program as well as some who may have received certification resulted in an improved quality of construction, then there is really only a measure of input and not on the key output – a superior quality building as well as construction management.

So, I am wondering whether there is an evaluation of the Gold Seal program which is not only based on the total number of those who have certification, but also based on an evaluation of whether construction has improved since the inception of the program and whether the program was the key reason why it has improved, if it has done so.

There is nothing on the Canadian Construction Association web site that gives a hint of an answer to such questions.

Chester wrote:
“1. This designation is awarded by whom?

Canadian Construction Association

2. And to which person?

Anyone in construction who has taken the required courses given all over the country and recognized by the CCA

3. Shouldn’t someone get the recognition rather than the project?

They do. The 7,500 certificates are issued to individuals.

This “Project” is one which for which 3 parties jointly agree to promote and evaluate the project as a gold seal Project. There is no certificate involved with that.

I know, the story does not explain it that clearly …. and I do not blame the author .. it is rather nebulous even on the CCA site.

http://www.goldsealcertification.com/homepage_e.asp

Well tradesmen are at the heart of any project, and most tradesmen trained in BC prior to the BC liberal trades reforms would hold a red seal certificate that is also inter-provincial. The red seals IMO are more important for quality, than the gold seal of a project manager. The gold seal is for on time and on budget… so time will tell.

‘Mission Accomplished’….

I agree fully. A top notch Construction Manager cannot bring a project in on time, within budget, to the specified quality if the workers are not competent in the work they have to perform.

By the same token, competent workers should be able to bring a poject in to the quality specified without a Construction Manager. It might cost more, and may take longer, but it will be useable.

38 million dollars was borrowed for this building and it was promoted as a building that would meet Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)standards….maybe this is the City’s way of saying we can no longer afford to go with the Gold LEED standards so we will promote the Gold Seal Construction Certification instead. Hopefully that is not the case.

does this mean we got sc***d with a golden elephant that we really didnt need.

Looks strange with the presoident of the construcrion association wearinbg a gold hard hat that sits on her head like a bubble on a slop pail,

Just do the bloody job and forget about the glitter.
Cheers

Saving money by being cheap with safety= golden seal…. Interesting

Who is this Woman who is our Mayor?
Who voted for her?
Her performance thus far is very unimpressive, unless you consider self importance and grandstanding impressive.
She is not qualified to lead this city on the path to recovery and realize it’s full potential.
I suspect she was elected by people such as herself who believe it was the fashionable thing to do.
We need a real Mayor, not a poster girl.