WELLNESS WEDNESDAY #143: Breaking Stigma, One Story at a Time

Over on CBC Saskatchewan, Grade 11 student Fiona Babar wrote about her teacher, Andrew Foreman, sharing his story of living with OCD – and what it mean to her. Can’t say it much better than this: As a student, I often made the assumption that teachers can never...

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Thanks to Omar Ghilan for touring ICBA’s Mike Davis around Hall Group's work preparing the site of the future Beachlands development in Colwood. Omar is Project Manager for Hall Constructors (Vancouver Island), and Hall is getting the 134 acres of Vancouver Island waterfront ready for 2,850 new homes.Beachlands is the last piece of a former gravel quarry to be developed, after the Royal Bay lands on the other side of Metchosin Road. It will house thousands of new residents and provide 47 acres of green space and parks, a central plaza, and several new businesses. ... See MoreSee Less
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WELLNESS WEDNESDAY #143: Breaking Stigma, One Story at a TimeOver on CBC Saskatchewan, Grade 11 student Fiona Babar wrote about her teacher, Andrew Foreman, sharing his story of living with OCD – and what it mean to her. Can’t say it much better than this:“As a student, I often made the assumption that teachers can never understand what I am going through as a teenager. How could someone that stands at the front of a class and talk for seven hours a day possibly understand? In that moment, Mr. Foreman took down that wall between himself as a teacher, with his own personal struggles, and us as students.“In the past, I've felt like I couldn't talk about my own mental health. People aren't comfortable with the topic. It hit me how Mr. Foreman had changed the narrative and turned our classroom into a place where people could comfortably ask questions, and get answers in a real and honest way. “ ‘Mental health is like our physical health, some days we feel good physically, some days we don't,’ he later told me. ‘Just like some people have serious health problems, some of us have mental health disorders that are more problematic, more frequent, than some people are used to’.”The kids are okay (or are going to be). -------Each week, ICBA’s Jordan Bateman reflects on what we’ve learned as we participate in ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program. ICBA’s Workplace Wellness Program is helping more than 100 companies and more than 10,000 construction professionals better understand mental health. This program is free for all ICBA members – check out icba.ca/wellness for details. ... See MoreSee Less
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Langford is absolutely booming – it’s one of the fastest growing communities in B.C. So the new South Langford Elementary School, designed for 480 Grade 1 to 5 and 80 kindergarten students, will be a welcome addition to the community. Kinetic Construction will complete the building next year, and Kinetic president and CEO (and ICBA Board member) Tom Plumb took ICBA VP-Regional Mike Davis on a tour of the site today.The 4,178 sq m four-storey building is oriented east to west to take advantage of natural lighting as well as maximize useable space on a smaller-than-average sloping site. The school includes 16 classrooms and four kindergarten spaces, along with a daycare. A full-sized soccer field is situated on the west side of the site.The design team wanted to inspire students to explore their environment through natural play and discovery. The school is imagined as a tree house embedded into the rugged terrain on one side and perched on the other side, with sweeping views of the surrounding landscape. The façade is an articulation of the light that filters through the vertical gaps between the trees in a forest.There is a strong focus on sustainability with this project, with a 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions through extensive use of mass timber, increased insulation in wall assemblies, strategic use of heat pumps and heat recovery systems, and photovoltaic cells on the roof. The mass timber structure visually matches the project’s sustainability ambitions, and reduces embodied carbon in construction.This is going to be an outstanding part of the Langford community for decades to come! ... See MoreSee Less
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ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson breaks down Canada's latest building construction stats:Nationally, investment in building construction fell slightly in January 2024. Investment was lower (-1.4% month-to-month change, seasonally adjusted) in the residential segment, while non-residential building investment edged up 0.2%. Stripping out the effects of inflation, total building instruction investment was down by 0.9% in January measured in constant dollar terms.In January, residential building investment in B.C. dipped by 2.3% from the previous month. In Alberta, residential investment was unchanged. Meanwhile, non-residential building investment fell 1% in B.C. while posting a slim 0.2% month-to-month advance in next-door Alberta...Alberta is leading the country in the pace of housing starts. According to ATB Economics, even amid high building costs and still high interest rates, “builders see strong demand for new homes” as Alberta’s population continues to surge. ATB Economics projects that 2024 housing starts will be up 14% over last year’s level.The picture is more subdued in B.C. The recent B.C. government budget sees housing starts declining by 9% this year.Read Jock's full piece at www.icbaindependent.ca/2024/03/25/icba-economics-sluggish-building-construction-in-most-of-canada/#ConstructionCanada #BuildingInvestment #ResidentialConstruction #NonResidentialConstruction #EconomicGrowthCanada #AlbertaConstruction #BCHousingMarket #HousingStarts #CanadianRealEstate #InfrastructureCanada ... See MoreSee Less
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🏆🏆🏆 It’s a hat trick for ICBA, as we won our third North American Trade Association of the Year Reed Award in Charleston, South Carolina, last week.It’s the third time ICBA has won Trade Association of the Year for our advocacy for the B.C. open shop construction industry, but the first time we won the largest category (51+ employees). In 2019 and 2021, ICBA was awarded the North American Trade Association of the Year Reed Award for groups with 50 employees or fewer.Overall, this is ICBA’s 14th Reed Award since 2018:• 1 in 2024• 1 in 2023• 1 in 2021• 2 in 2020• 6 in 2019• 3 in 2018With 14 wins since 2018, ICBA is not just the most successful Canadian advocacy group in that time, but one of the most successful in the world for our creativity and execution of advocacy ideas.Named after Campaigns & Elections founder and campaign marketing pioneer Stanley Foster Reed, the Washington, DC-based Reed Awards embody excellence in political campaigning, campaign management, political consulting and political design, grassroots & advocacy. Reed Award winners represent the very best the political campaign industry has to offer.“Getting designated as a Reed Award finalist is extraordinarily difficult,” said Shane D’Aprile, Co-Publisher, Campaigns & Elections. “Thousands of entries compete, but very few make the cut. That’s how it should be in the most exacting award the campaign industry has. So when you encounter a Reed Award winner you know one thing for certain, they produce work that’s head and shoulders above the competition.”#ICBA #ReedAwards #TradeAssociationOfTheYear #AdvocacyExcellence #ConstructionIndustry #PoliticalCampaigning #CampaignManagement #GrassrootsAdvocacy #AwardWinning #LeadershipInConstruction #InnovationInAdvocacy #NorthAmericanSuccess #OpenShopConstruction #CampaignsAndElections #ExcellenceInAdvocacy ... See MoreSee Less
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Thanks to Omar Ghilan for touring ICBA’s Mike Davis around @bdhall_ca's work preparing the site of the future Beachlands development in Colwood. Omar is Project Manager for Hall Constructors (Vancouver Island), and Hall is getting the 134 acres of Vancouver Island waterfront…

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WELLNESS WEDNESDAY #143: Breaking Stigma, One Story at a Time

Over on CBC Saskatchewan, Grade 11 student Fiona Babar wrote about her teacher, Andrew Foreman, sharing his story of living with OCD – and what it mean to her. Can’t say it better than this: https://www.icbaindependent.ca/2024/03/27/wellness-wednesday-143-breaking-stigma-one-story-at-a-time/

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