Tag: Government of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia issues tidal energy permits
Nova Scotia’s Department of Energy and Mines has issued two marine renewable energy permits to Jupiter Hydro for a tidal electricity project in the...
Expanded long-term care home coming to Digby County
Villa Acadienne in Meteghan, located in Digby County in Nova Scotia’s southwest, is being replaced. The new home will have 10 new beds, for...
Three teams qualify for Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre
Three companies have been short listed to lead the public-private-partnership of the new Community Outpatient Centre in Bayers Lake, Halifax Regional Municipality.
Bird Integrated Health...
Nova Scotia accepts recommendations on bridge data system
Nova Scotia’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal accepts all recommendations made by the Auditor General about the management of bridge projects. In Chapter...
N.S. chooses P3 delivery for healthcare infrastructure projects
The Government of Nova Scotia has announced that it will use a design-build-finance-maintain approach to build new community health centres and new long-term care...
Contract awarded for QEII New Generation Project lab relocation
The Government of Nova Scotia has awarded the construction contract for relocating the QEII Health Sciences Centre’s chemotherapy preparation lab to Pomerleau Inc.
As part...
Major expansion planned for Cape Breton Regional Hospital
Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey announced that the Cape Breton Regional Hospital is getting a new emergency department, critical care department, and cancer...
Prompt payment legislation introduced in Nova Scotia
Proposed amendments to the Builders’ Lien Act in Nova Scotia will establish prompt payment rules so that contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers in the construction...
Nova Scotia releases its 2019-20 Capital Plan
Nova Scotia’s Finance and Treasury Board Minister Karen Casey has released Capital Plan 2019-20, the government’s annual infrastructure investment plan to lay out capital...
Nova Scotia expanding apprentice use on government projects
Government is encouraging more businesses to hire apprentices in Nova Scotia through an expanded procurement program.
In January 2016 government launched a pilot program that...
