Rising compliance costs are one big reason for the sharp increase in housing and construction prices, and while some levels of government express concern and desire to lower those costs, other jurisdictions can’t wait to saddle builders with even bigger burdens.
B.C. construction projects with more than 25 workers must have access to a flushable toilet, according to a law to be introduced by Premier David Eby.
From my on-the ground experience as a concrete and aggregate materials tester, most sites that I have been to usually don’t have more than 10-15 workers at one time, and those that do, often have flushers available, as well as porta johns in more far flung areas of the site.
And a spa in every corner..
Naturally the major problems of construction will never be addressed by our Progressive Comrades.
Today working is treated,by government,as a criminal activity.
Politicians and talking heads;’We tax activity we wish to discourage”.
Receiver of pay check;”No shit Sherlock”.
Ask any contractor.
It is near impossible to convince Tradesmen to work overtime,as the financial abuse compounds.
NDP,Liberal or Conservative..all same group .
The Parasitic Overload.
When over 50% of the return on your labour is going to Government,a re evaluation of how you spend your time becomes compulsory..
Perverse Incentives..Otherwise known as Government Help.
Waste and Destruction,what the Bureaus Do for You.
Of course our “Economists” keep insisting that GDP is increasing,as the few tax payers spend all their productive time repairing the damage done by the Idiots in Charge..
Smash what others build.
Compel them to rebuild.
Then Smash it all down..
Oh look Gross Domestic product is up..
There are some things so stupid,that only an “educated person” can believe in them.
Flushable Toilets ,for construction sites…
So important.
Command Economy interference destroying productivity?
No problem at all.
Cause those who have never built anything,could not manage a Lemonade Stand or file their own taxes..They Know that they Know Best how you shall run your life.
Best thing to come out of Dread Covid Theatre.
The sure knowledge,confirmed by The State’s actions,that they will never leave you alone.
Your “NO” means nothing.
Proceed.
and i thought when they added offset urinals and hand sanitizers to the portypotties in the 1980s were were in heaven
How many of those flush toilet rooms will have to be handicap accessible?
I suppose the gummint will require a certain percentage of construction hires must have disabilities.
So the Ironworkers will have to hire quadriplegic steeplejacks and the demolition companies will have to hire a blind person to operate the wrecking ball crane. Well of course that’s nuts, but why would a bureaucrat regulator care?
The cheapest way out for companies will be to make the disability hire and then hire someone capable to actually do the job. Two people, one job. Skip the fines and wasted time for being non-compliant.
“Look, look! Employment is up! GDP is up!” And the pols and bureaucrats will give themselves a bonus for doing such a great job.
No onsite massage therapists and aroma therapy bars? What kind of third world barbarism is this?
Only 24 workers allowed on site at any one time.
Canadian politicians, particularly local and provincial Jacobins, like to mouth-breath about “affordable housing” but are ideologically opposed to everything that would make that happen as are most home owners. The feds are getting into the act after flooding the country with state-imported and subsidized “humanity” and now Frau Friedland is attempting to force people who own short-term rental property into the long term rental business. The fascism never ends. You may “own” private property but the state decides how you will “manage” it.
Out in the boonies near my place a week before a backhoe did some road work to a week after a shitter showed up. Back when I worked pipeline before I went to school I did like the bears. Just like I did in the army reserves. Next – bidets?
Ah yes, The Shitter.
I have been on hundreds and hundreds of sites over the decades – probably thousands – and things are much better than they used to be.
Putting up powerlines in the ’80’s we crapped in the woods in the snow in Northern Ontario because the site was 14 kilometers long. We’d throw snowballs at the squatter.
In portable Shitters salt is often loaded into the urinal in winter and I remember it being so cold that you’d be pissing onto a frozen surface and hoping you wouldn’t overflow it.
Meanwhile, as they’re so small, the steam of your piss would rise and envelop your head like a shroud.
Working late once, it was dark and a buddy came out of a portable shitter and said he thought the urinal was really high until he turned and realized he was pissing in the sink – I laughed my head off because earlier I’d almost done the same thing.
Now there is a lot less graffiti, thankfully. Infantile drawings of dicks and tits and stupid comments and insults used to be everywhere.
Some were funny.
“What do you call a basement with four electricians? A wine cellar.”
“Flush twice, its a long way to Montreal.”
The flush toilets are typically trailers and aren’t a guarantee they’ll be nice and clean, but there isn’t any piss shroud.
The Dear Leader is playing a major role in pushing up housing costs on both the demand and supply sides. Demand side: bring in a million immigrants a year. On the supply side: much stricter “green” building codes:
“If you thought housing in Canada was already expensive, buried in the Trudeau government’s Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) is a little-noticed provision that would raise the cost of building new homes even higher. On page 201 of the ERP, in the bottom of a table listing proposed building code revisions, lies an astonishing requirement: “Increase energy efficiency such that new (residential) buildings use 61 per cent less energy by 2025 and 65 per cent less energy by 2030 in comparison to 2019.” A companion proposal requires commercial buildings to meet a 47 per cent target by 2025 and 59 per cent by 2030, compared to 2019.
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I estimated that hitting the 65 per cent target will raise building costs across the country by 8.3 per cent (on average). New home construction costs vary across the country. I estimate the increase will be $22,000-$35,000 in Atlantic Canada and on the Prairies, $38,000 in Quebec, and more than $70,000 in Ontario and British Columbia, yielding a national average of about $55,000 per home.”
https://financialpost.com/opinion/ottawa-energy-efficiency-raise-new-home-costs-8#:~:text=On%20page%20201%20of%20the,2019.%E2%80%9D%20A%20companion%20proposal%20requires
it’ll be more than 8.3% increase
Framed with 2x12s.
Eventually it will be deemed that there be a different coloured jobsite pee-can for every gender, regardless if they are present on said worksite. Western society is clearly in its death throes.
The government never seems to miss a chance to slow down and increase costs, and then wonder why nothing gets built.
The Western world, with it’s “Welfare State”[TM] has become schlerotic and more incapable than ever of doing anything; there a re just too many goverments and government-supported organisations preventing things happening until environmental assessments and other investigations and turf wars.
So go buy a flush toilet, and park it on the site. Or does that regulation state it must be a functional flush?
If so, add a garden hose!
Hahahaha! Good one!
The NDP demands more affordable homes built; NDP opposes releasing some green belt land.
Housing. How about a million Kent homes shipped around Canada and put in every damn city in the country. Three bedroom, 11-12 hundred square feet, nice homes, cheap but hey, that does not fit the cities, towns, feds goals of extremely expensive homes and the taxes that go with them. New Brunswick would benefit and we could hire a million talented welfare immigrants to help build them. Yep, now there was a real dumb idea.