www.odacc.ca<\/a>) and a state-of-the-art computer system,\u201d project manager Carina Reider wrote in the annual report. \u201cIt also developed the training program for adjudicators in conjunction with the Stitt Feld Handy group and has now certified over 60 adjudicators.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cODACC adjudicators were committed to providing expedited adjudications to minimize disruptions to construction projects,\u201d Reider wrote. \u201cAdjudicators maintained civility, procedural fairness, proportionality and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stitt Feld Handy Group (SFHG) vice-president Elinore Whitmore and Jason Stitt, alternative dispute resolution instruction and mediator, said in a statement that the adjudication course attendees \u201ccame from many sectors of the construction industry and represented numerous stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the course attendees applied to become adjudicators and others are planning to do so in the future,\u201d they wrote. \u201cOthers were learning about the system in preparation for becoming parties or representing parties in adjudications. The course attendees\u2019 backgrounds, level of expertise and range of perspectives helped to produce informative discussions and debates.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the course attendees have been advocating and waiting fo the introduction of prompt payment and adjudication legislation,\u201d Whitmore and Stitt wrote. \u201cTheir enthusiasm and commitment to ensuring that the Ontario construction industry continues to grow and thrive was evident throughout the training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ontario Construction Report staff writer Ontario\u2019s prompt payment construction dispute resolution system received 32 claims and adjudicated three of them in its first 10 months of operation, The Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts (ODACC) says in its first annual report released in early October. Most of the claims received in the 10 months from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,42,115,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-around-the-province","8":"category-featured","9":"category-government","10":"category-suppliers-and-services"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10897,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/10897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontarioconstructionreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}