Our Initiatives
Best Practices
We offer free-of-charge Best Practices and information in the areas of safety, construction performance, workforce development and contracting, to help Alberta’s construction industry become safer, more efficient and more productive.
COVID-19 Response – Working Through the Challenges
Dealing with a pandemic is a new challenge for most of us; our industry is learning on the fly. This page provides examples, procedures and web links so companies in the heavy industrial construction sector can learn how their peers are evaluating and addressing the risks, and to keep abreast of the rapidly-evolving situation.
Featured Links
2020 COAA Annual General Meeting
COAA 2020 AGM Slides and Program
COAA Webinars
Learn more about upcoming COAA webinars and find resources from past webinars.
COAA Invest in Alberta: Success Stories
Building Value: For Shareholders and Albertans
New Committee: FLIC
This newly formed COAA committee is on the search for the industry’s best & brightest employees in their early to mid-careers with the drive and energy to make change…
2019 BuildForce Forecast
NEW: BuildForce Canada Construction Looking Forward and Alberta Construction Forecast 2019
Click here!
Planning has begun for the 2021 Best Practices Conference.
More information to come.
Events
Webinar Series #5: Collaborative Contracting Framework and Toolkit
AWP Community of Practice Global Update
Free Webinar this Friday: AWP Community of Practice Global Update (New Chapter Developments, Plans for 2021+ and Live Q&A)
ACR 2021 AGM & Awards Celebration
Save-The-Dates AGM: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Awards Celebration: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Join COAA
COAA members are the companies and organizations in the heavy industrial construction industry. Membership has its benefits:
- Network with industry peers
- Contribute to committees and best practices for the industry
- Annual General Meeting and other events and workshops offered through the COAA
- Attend the annual Best Practices Conference
- Access COAA initiatives
We welcome members from outside Alberta. The best practices we develop are tailored to Alberta construction, but the principles are universally applicable. Any company that believes in and wishes to contribute to excellence in heavy industrial construction is welcome.