BuildForce Canada is predicting 11,000 construction jobs will disappear in Alberta in 2017, most of them in Northern Alberta as major oilsands projects come to an end.

BuildForce Executive Director Rosemary Sparks says it may be short lived though, as the residential construction industry is predicted to pick up in 2018 which would add back 10,000 of those jobs.

"Following that we'll see some commercial activity, some institutional activity and industrial. And then in 2024, we think we'll start potentially to see some turnaround in the resource based construction. Primarily that would be the oil."

Sparks says the situation won't be as dire in Southern Alberta where residential and commercial construction will remain slow growing.

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