A building permit worth more than $33 million dollars pushed last month’s construction value in Kamloops through the roof.

Building and engineering development manager Jason Dixon says the June building permit value was just north of $50.5 million.

“The big permit that made the big difference for the month was the foundation permit for the patient care tower at Royal Inland Hospital. So that permit alone had a construction value of $33.6 million, so that’s the vast majority of why we had such a good month.”

Dixon says that wasn’t the only large project starting last month.

“We had a tenant improvement permit for Marshalls at Aberdeen Mall, repairs to the Sagebrush Theatre roof, and then we had a site-servicing permit for a pretty large multi-family development on Ord Road. So between those three permits is five-and-a-half million dollars. So aside from the hospital project, those would be the big ones for the month.”

The year-to-date construction value in Kamloops through six months is now more than $148 million, which is 25 per cent more than this time during 2018’s record construction year.

Dixon points out minus the patient care tower permit last month, the year-to-date construction value is still slightly higher than this time last year, and he says it now seems possible that the Tournament Capital could be in for a third-straight record year of building.