Products & Resources
BuildForce Canada supports the labour market development needs of the construction and maintenance industry through several programs and initiatives. Explore our core products and resources below.
BuildForce Canada studies and forecasts long-term trends in the labour market. The resulting BuildForce Labour Market Information (LMI) focuses exclusively on trends affecting the construction and maintenance industry, including an economic and investment outlook, and an assessment of labour availability for 34 trades and occupations for the residential and non-residential construction sectors over a ten-year period.
BuildForce Canada’s E-Learning Centre offers a comprehensive catalogue of online training courses designed to promote the professional development of individuals working in the Canadian construction and maintenance industry. BuildForce also provides an online library of resources and research reports.
BuildForce offers resources designed to provide employers with the information they need to meet labour market challenges and become more productive and competitive. Find research reports and self-assessment tools addressing issues that range from productivity to respectful workplace initiatives
Each year, BuildForce Canada generates a number of research reports, blogs and the Construction and Maintenance Looking Forward summary reports. Access key insights and information about the industry in these reports, available through our Resource Centre.
For quick access to the latest construction insights, visit Labour Market Corner.
2024 Annual Report
Arguably, construction has never been more at the centre of
public discourse than it is right now.
Not only is the sector experiencing a period of growth that has
placed significant demands on its residential and non-residential
labour forces, but it is also contending with emerging public-policy
driven requirements to build millions of new housing units and to
transition Canada’s building stock to carbon-neutral fuel sources
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
This year has been especially busy for BuildForce. In addition
to the regular series of Construction and Maintenance Looking
Forward reports, we developed three other distinct reports to
understand and highlight how the demands of our sector will
impact our labour force.
Buildforce Magazine
These are exciting times for Canada’s construction industry. No matter where you look across the country, from coast to coast to coast, the story is the same: demand for construction services is growing.
Large-scale projects – liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, mining and agriculture, battery production, and healthcare and seniors care facilities to name a few – are dominating the landscape in most provinces, and keeping the construction sector operating at near peak levels. Public-policy imperatives to double the number of new homes built across the country over the next 10 years and to electrify the economy will only add to existing demand pressures.
