A LASTING LEGACY By Anna Guy Part of an architect’s job is distilling clients’ visions into a living, breathing space. To be able to manifest a place for communal experience is perhaps even more challenging than creating the brick and mortar aspect. Of any public meeting space, there is none as sensitive [...]
BALANCING ART AND DESIGN By Anna Guy If you work or live in the Ottawa area, you have felt the influence of Architects DCA (formally known as Dreessen Cardinal Architects). For over 30 years, the firm’s creative and lasting designs have been chosen for commercial, retail, office, industrial and institutional settings, and [...]
IMPROVING THE LIVES OF THE CREE PEOPLE OF MISTISSINI AND OF THE CREE TERRITORY By Anna Guy Creating strong relationships between community and industry to foster economic growth and opportunities in the Cree Territory Companies and individuals familiar with the development of Northern Quebec will know the Eskan company and its group [...]
NORTH AMERICA'S PREMIER DEMOLITION TEAM By Anna Guy Creativity and efficiency: that’s what makes a demolition company successful. Martin Gagnon is uniquely qualified to know. As General Manager of one of Canada’s most experienced demolition companies, Groupe Démex-Centrem, he’s had to stretch the outer bounds of both. In the 25 years since [...]
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE By Anna Guy McCaine Electric Ltd. provides electrical installation, maintenance and services to a large number of clients in the industrial, institutional and commercial markets. In 2018, McCaine Electric achieved a milestone few companies ever do: 100 years of operation. For a little context, when McCaine was established [...]
MERIT BASED By Anna Guy Merit Contractors was born out of a plight for competition, fairness and transparency in the construction industry. During a very difficult time in Alberta’s economy in 1986, 15 prescient contractors banned together to help keep Albertans working in the province’s struggling construction industry. They did so by, creating [...]
Pride and Profesionalism By Anna Guy Trades NL: The Building Trades of Newfoundland and Labrador provides highly trained, diverse, safe and highly productive working tradespersons to the Newfoundland and Labrador Building and Construction industry by fostering pride and professionalism in the trades through training for life-long career opportunities. Trades NL: The Building Trades [...]
Civil, Mechanical, and Oil and Gas Infrastructure By Anna Guy It can take travelling to the other side of the world to really see what’s happening in one’s own backyard. Such was the case for the Ken Hamilton, President of HCC Group. Originally established in 1979, Hamilton Construction has been involved in the [...]
The Right Equipment For Your Job By Anna Guy No matter what the construction project, the right equipment is vital to its success. Procuring the right construction equipment for the right time can make the difference between a project done on time and profitably. Being able to choose the right equipment for either [...]
Pushing The Envelope By Anna Guy Cascadia Windows Ltd. is a fiberglass construction products manufacturer with a commitment to improving energy performance in buildings and reducing the impacts the built world has on the environment. President Mike Battistel and his partners had a vision for a product that would lead the industry in [...]