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Originally Posted by fredr123

PCL in Edmonton caught a bit of flack by bringing in stuff from out of province. Obviously not all of the economic benefit of the construction of a project like this would be local: http://albertaenterprisegroup.com/ca...dering-quebec/

I do know a little bit about the construction process on Rogers Arena. There was little chance any firm in Alberta could have fabricated all of the components themselves, they awarded the building envelope of a big company that has done a bunch of pro sports buildings, who then subbed a fair amount of onsite work and small components back to Alberta companies.

The other option would have been going to an Alberta company that had little experience in this type of project, who would have subbed allot of the manufacturing out, probably to the same company that actually ended up winning the award.

Also this article complains that the Edmonton company did not get a fair shot to bid on the Quebec city project. But it really wouldn't mater. Freight on construction materials in mitigating for Alberta to export manufactured goods. All of the steel comes from Ontario and all of the wood comes from Quebec, so you would be hauling material across the country 2 twice.