Mar 13, 2025 – Warren Frey/Journal of Commerce

Leaders in both construction and government shared strategies for both coping with setbacks and celebrating their successes at a recent conference for women making their way through the industry.

The Vancouver Regional Construction Association (VRCA) and Canadian Construction Women (CCW) held the LEAP conference on March 7 with a fireside chat session moderated by both VRCA president Jeannine Martin and Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP partner and CCW past-president Seema Lal.

Turner Construction project director and VRCA chair Regina Marklund, SkilledTradesBC CEO Shelley Gray and provincial Minister of Infrastructure Bowinn Ma were panellists at the fireside chat.

In her introductory remarks, Ma said British Columbia’s rapidly growing population required more schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure and that “it doesn’t serve companies, communities or families well to have the construction sector closed off from hiring half of the population.”

Ma also praised both the VRCA and CCW and “women like you (attendees) who refuse to stand down on your right for nothing less than equal standing in the workplace.”

Read the full article at canada.constructconnect.com.