By: Perry King
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Glacier Creek Contracting has gained rec-
ognition for their award-winning work on
the Vancouver Olympics Athletes’ Village in
Whistler, British Columbia in 2010, but their
impact on British Columbia has been signifi-
cant for decades.
Created by Eric Prall, Glacier Creek has
built everything from 25-storey high rises to
single family homes in Manitoba, Saskatch-
ewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Set-
tling in Whistler, BC, with a skilled team at
the pre-build and build stages, Glacier Creek
looks to establish a strong rapport with their
clients and partners at the early stage of any
project.
Don Coggins, Glacier Creek’s marketing
and sales manager, in an interview, says that
in this competitive industry, regardless of
the size and cost of the project, or whether
it’s public or private in nature, the company
approaches any challenge with open-mind-
edness and pragmatism.
“No matter what we’re building, we take
a team approach to it,” explains Coggins,
who is a relative new comer to the indus-
try, “we’ll start with the architect, and we
do work with a number of them, and look at
what they’re doing and how they’re doing it
and get involved very early in what they’re
designing.”
Weighing costs and benefits, and provid-
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