What We Do

The Atlantic Home Building and Renovation Sector Council was established in Halifax in 1991 as a regional industrial training committee and became an industry sector council in 2000. 

The Sector Council is a federally registered non-profit corporation and a key strategic partner for builders, renovators and trades workers employed in the home construction and renovation industry in Atlantic Canada.  

The primary funding source for the Sector Council is the Labour Market Partnership Program (LMPP) funded by the Government of Canada and administered by each of the provincial governments in Atlantic Canada.  Eligibility for funding under the LMPP requires that the AHBRSC also receive funding from corporate sponsorships and contributions from industry associations. 

The AHBRSC is the homebuilding and renovation industry’s forum for partnerships, research, planning and programming to meet the current and future labour market needs of the industry in each of the Atlantic Provinces. 

For workers, this means access to career planning resources and educational resources, including industry training, community college programs, work site training and apprenticeship systems.  

For builders, this means an adequate supply of skilled workers, balanced labour markets and labour costs, increased productivity and the resources and tools with which to manage their human resources. 

For the industry and its workforce, this means a forum for labour market research and a focal point for strategic labour market planning, and program and policy development.  

For government and public sector institutions, this means a strategic link to industry and workers, and a community partner with whom research is shared, policy and programming can be developed, and through which resources can be allocated. 

SECTOR COUNCIL ROLE 

The mission of the AHBRSC is to ensure that there is an adequate supply of fully trained and highly skilled trades workers to meet the needs of the home building and renovation industry in Atlantic Canada. The Sector Council fulfills this mission by focusing its efforts in the following areas: 

• Researching and understanding our industry, our communities and our economy in order that we can project the demand for new home construction and renovation and strategically prepare for the human resources needed by our industry
   

• Ensuring that appropriate, adequate and up-to-date education and training programs are developed and delivered by the provincial apprenticeship systems, the provincial community colleges, industry training partners and individual builders
   

• Developing and implementing recruitment and retention strategies to attract and retain new entrants to the construction trades and the apprenticeship systems in order to meet the future labour needs of the home building and renovation industry and, 
   

• Representing the interests of the home building and renovation industry and workforce in negotiations with provincial governments as each province moves toward the development and implementation of systems for mandatory licensing and certification for home builders, renovators and specialized trades workers. 

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