Piling Industry News
Canadian Construction Association launches Construction R&D Portal and Construction R&D Showcases to accelerate innovation In a new endeavour to advance innovation within the industry, the Canadian Construction Association (CCA) and Cognit. ca announce the launch of the Construction R&D Portal and the Construction R&D Showcase speaker series in October. The goal of this initiative is to help Canada’s $141 billion construction industry capitalize on the $14 billion of research performed by universities annually.
The Construction R&D Portal will give construction leaders unprecedented visibility into world-class expertise, research, facilities, and intellectual property that exist at post-secondary institutions across Canada. The Construction R&D Showcase will link industry executives and researchers with cutting-edge discoveries that can help the industry explore and adopt new innovations.
Fraser River Pile & Dredge (GP) Inc.
As Canada’s largest Marine Construction, Land Foundations and Dredging contractor, FRPD is a recognized leader that employs state of the art methods and equipment. FRPD’s versatile fleet is ready to complete all scope and size Marine Construction, Environmental Remediation, Dredging and Land Foundation projects. Established in 1911 as Fraser River Pile Driving Company and incorporated in 2008 as Fraser River Pile & Dredge (GP) Inc., FRPD’s team of highly skilled professionals brings more than 100 years of experience and commitment to exceeding expectations.
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1830 River Drive, New Westminster, B.C. V3M 2A8 Phone: 604Ͳ522Ͳ7971 (24/7) www.frpd.com info@frpd.com
“One of the key challenges for the industry has been to learn about cuttingedge innovation that is undertaken by academia and the talent behind it. It can be equally difficult for researchers to showcase their research to industry executives or even gain funding for new research,” said Mary Van Buren, president of CCA. “This new single access portal will overcome that challenge by helping our members accelerate innovation by exposing them to the most up to date research available on construction.” “Cognit.ca was designed to help businesses access expertise, research, facilities and intellectual property at post-secondary institutions across the country,” said Mike Matheson, managing director of Cognit.ca. “We are thrilled to work with the CCA to bring these resources directly to Canada’s construction industry.” The Construction R&D Portal leverages Cognit.ca’s extensive database of research activities undertaken by Canada’s postsecondary education institutions. The portal will give industry leaders a window into the latest research and discoveries as well as the ability to search Cognit.ca’s database of more than 225,000 research grants, more than 100,000 experts, thousands of pieces of intellectual property, thousands of pieces of research infrastructure and hundreds of research facilities from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Research Facilities Navigator. l
