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- Residential and high-rise buildings
- Major institutional and industrial projects
- Roads
- Hydro electric construction
- And more
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Latest News
The fight to build ferries in B.C.
December 9, 2025 WHEN PHIL VENOIT FIRST SET FOOT in a shipyard, he was barely out of high school. At just 18 years old, Venoit’s work experience had been as a manager of a McDonald’s. “I’m not going to call it a rude awakening. It was simply an awakening to an...
College of the BCBT connects high school students with careers in the trades
November 21, 2025 YOUTH ACROSS THE PROVINCE are finding new pathways to get involved in the trades, thanks in part to a new hands-on program. The Youth Trade Sampler program, run as a partnership between the UA Piping Industry College of BC College of the BC Building...
Op-Ed
This election is personal – Executive Director’s Message
September 26, 2024 FOR ME, POLITICS IS PERSONAL. It’s not something that happens over in Victoria or Ottawa. It’s something that affects my family, my friends and my community. It’s been that way since I was 15. At that time, a right wing government was slashing jobs...
A Dam Big Moment – Executive Director’s Message
August 19, 2024 I CAN CLEARLY REMEMBER December 2014 when then premier Christy Clark announced the province would build Site C. Somehow it’s 10 years later and the mega project is almost complete. Site C has been a fixture in the unionized construction world nearly...
College of the BCBT Apprenticeship Guide
College of the BC Building Trades Apprenticeship Guide
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- Learn about the College of the BC Building Trades advantage
Tradetalk
Read the Latest Edition of TradeTalk
Fall 2026 Vol. 29 No. 3
In this issue
- UA 170’s new Kelowna school
- Delivering healthcare infastructure
- APPRENTICESHIP SECTION
- Ironworkers and the PNE Freedom Arch
WE ARE INVOLVED WITH WORTHWHILE CAMPAIGNS ACROSS THE REGION TO ENSURE ALL OUR MEMBERS ARE PRIMED FOR SUCCESS IN THE COMING YEARS
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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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Rob Shaw: It’s time to put B.C. back in the ferry-building business