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S.D.C. CHUTTER
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Construction Industry
Author: S.D.C. CHUTTER
The construction industry is Canada's largest industry and executes most of the construction activity in the country. It provides a wide variety of buildings, ranging from houses to skyscrapers and from schools and hospitals to factories and shopping centres, and carries out an equally wide variety ofENGINEERING construction projects, ranging from highways to nuclear-power stations and from dams and dredging to petrochemical plants andPIPELINES .
Members of the construction industry put in place most of the capital investment of all other industries, governments, business and ...