b'CCA NEWSenvironmental impact. There has been aCCAs integrated partner associations.who provided detailed explanations and notable decrease in emissions intensityA special thank you to the Winnipegdemonstrated their use in practice.across various infrastructure assets, andConstruction Association (WCA) forSTAY IN TOUCH!investments in clean technologies andhosting a CCDC Seminar, our firstYou can count on CCA to be a materials are rising.in-person seminar since the pandemic.collaborative partner to WCA, providing REBUILDING CANADASThese seminars provided a uniquehelpful tools, sharing best practices across CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE opportunity to delve into new contractsthe country and being your voice with the With an estimated 265,000 workers setand guides with the document authors,federal government.to retire in the next decade and growing construction demands, there is a real need to partner with the federal government on workforce development strategies. While progress has been made, theres still much work to be done. We achieved some headway with the federal government on rebuilding Canadas workforce through immigration reform. Immigration targets were increased, and a new process was announced under the Express Entry program to welcome skilled newcomers with work experience in occupations considered a priority in Canada,including construction. However, ongoing dialogue will continue as the government needs to create a more supportive environment to alleviate the labour choke pointsthis includes changing an outdated immigration point system and working with provinces to ensure better skills matching.SIMPLIFYING CONTRACTSAND GUIDESCCA is striving to make contract management simpler and more transparent for our members with our new contract management platform, SignaSur. SignaSur offers secure, digital CCA and CCDC contracts through our integrated partner associations. Many of our integrated partner associations have had a briefing on the service and are at various stages of adoption and launch.A series of new CCA and CCDC documents have also been published and are now available for purchase though Stay in the loop by subscribing to CCAs newsletter atbit.ly/ccasubscribe, by following @ConstructionCAN on Twitter or by looking up Canadian Construction Association on LinkedIn.Issue 3 | Fall Edition | 2024 BUILD MANITOBA 21'