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Your connection to more than 50,000 highly skilled workers.
We build:
- Residential and high-rise buildings
- Major institutional and industrial projects
- Roads
- Hydro electric construction
- And more
Learn how the BC Building Trades can help you bring your construction projects to the next level.
Latest News
An ironclad commitment to culture – Ironworker brings powwow dancing to his thousands of followers
July 14, 2023 GETTING A RECENT ALL-CLEAR from his doctor is a great relief to Peter White for both personal and professional reasons. It means a cancerous tumour on his right foot diagnosed seven years ago is gone and White can keep on his feet as an ironworker and...
Building a Family Legacy – Red Seal father and apprentice son work side by side on Cowichan District Hospital replacement project
July 7, 2023 IT WAS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE THINGS to do as a kid. While most everyone else in the house was sleeping, 12-year-old Cletus Daniels would get up at the crack of dawn, throw on some clothes and grab some breakfast for the big day ahead. He was going to work...
Op-Ed
Time to put the brakes on uncertified tradespeople
June 11, 2021 By Brynn Bourke & Melissa Chirino DO YOU WANT someone without training to work on the electrical wiring of your home, your child’s school, or the hospital in your community? Or how about the brakes on your car, or on the 18-wheeler behind you as you...
Executive Director’s Message – The big impact of all the little things that make our communities better
April 9, 2021 AFTER BEING WITH THE BUILDING TRADES for most of a decade, I’ve had the unique privilege of seeing what we can accomplish when we work together. There are many big things we do that make their way into the public; like the big infrastructure projects we...
College of the BCBT Apprenticeship Guide
College of the BC Building Trades Apprenticeship Guide
Use this guide to:
- Explore our programs
- Explore our training schools
- Learn about the College of the BC Building Trades advantage
Tradetalk
Read the Latest Edition of TradeTalk
Spring 2026 Vol. 29 No. 1
In this issue
- Crane operation to become certified
- Historic investment in training
- A tale of two bridge
- Momentum grows for shipbuilding
WE ARE INVOLVED WITH WORTHWHILE CAMPAIGNS ACROSS THE REGION TO ENSURE ALL OUR MEMBERS ARE PRIMED FOR SUCCESS IN THE COMING YEARS
MEMBER RESOURCES
The BC Building Trades represents 50,000 highly skilled construction workers in British Columbia. Our members work in the industrial, commercial, institutional and residential sectors building our communities.
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We represent 50,000 highly skilled construction workers in B.C., and we are part of a network of 500,000 unionized construction workers across Canada.
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