ECABC offers several online courses through BuildForce Canada, which provide team members with necessary knowledge and skills to deal effectively and professionally with their coworkers, sub-trades, owners, clients, engineers and their employees, and were created to enhance health and safety awareness and help prevent injuries to workers.
Construction Industry Ethics
Ethical behaviour is paramount in the construction industry. This course has been designed to help you understand ethics as it relates to the construction industry. The course contains interactive elements, case studies, practical examples, videos, and a course glossary.
Working in a Respectful & Inclusive Workplace
The Canadian construction and maintenance industry is committed to building respectful and inclusive workplaces. This course looks at how a respectful and inclusive workplace can benefit everyone by eliminating discrimination and harassment, and how everyone can create respect through inclusive communication, teamwork, and mentorship.
Communication, Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
The information presented in this course will help you to overcome communication barriers and improve your communication skills both written and oral, your negotiating skills and conflict resolution abilities alongside co-workers and on the job site every day.
Construction Law
This course is designed to teach and familiarize owners, managers, supervisors and project managers with construction contracts and contract law; liabilities and responsibilities of all parties to a Contract, compiling and submitting proper extras and claims, and ways and means to avoid conflict with contracts, owners, trades, and labour.
Introduction to Construction Estimating
This online training course will provide learners with skills and knowledge related to estimating practices, and help them understand the importance of estimates as one of the key first steps in any construction job. The lesson modules cover a wide range of topics, with interactive activities based on real-life field situations to help reinforce the lessons.
Introduction to Understanding Systemic Racism
This course is focused on increasing awareness about systemic racism and providing information and strategies to help organizations create and/or revise policies and processes to support workplaces that are inclusive of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.
Introduction to Mentorship
This course focuses on introducing the skills required to develop effective mentoring training relationships with a focus on communication skills that can be applied on the job with measurable results.
Canadian Construction Contract Essentials
In this course, gain a basic and practical understanding of Canadian construction contract and subcontract essentials.
