CSM Group
For more than 40 years, the CSM Group of Kalamazoo, Michigan has delivered industry-leading projects for Fortune 100 and 500 clients in 35 U.S. states and Canada, in the food and beverage, health...
Home Nation
Home Nation, with corporate offices in Cocoa Beach, Florida and nine branch offices and showrooms across the U.S., delivers affordable homes to families across the nation, just as its name says. A...
Lott Brothers Construction Company
Lott Brothers Construction Company, located in Round Rock, Texas, is a privately owned, third-generation, commercial construction management company with design-build capabilities. For many years,...
Telligent Masonry
Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, this remarkable plaudit-gathering company, Telligent Masonry—whose very name evokes the impression of working with inspiration, serves the construction industry...
Advantages and Challenges of Retrofitting and Renovating
When it comes to the choice between tearing down and building new or retrofitting, renovating or remodeling, we’ve been told by professionals that the greenest building is the one that’s already...
Stack Modular
Established in 2009, Stack Modular is a leading provider of innovative structural steel volumetric modular building solutions worldwide and is uniquely positioned to assist with ending the current...
Jupiter Protective Flooring
Since 2016, Jupiter Protective Flooring has emerged as the go-to source for high-performance epoxy, urethane, and polished concrete flooring treatments, serving manufacturing, commercial, and...
Allegheny Crane & Rigging
Shortly after 6:38 a.m. on January 28, 2022, Kyrk Pyros, President and CEO of Allegheny Crane & Rigging of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received an emergency call. The snow-covered, 446.9 foot-long...
1st Choice Glass
Over the past 19 years, 1st Choice Glass (1CG), with corporate headquarters in Monroe, North Carolina and satellite offices in Charleston, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia, has emerged as a...
Hargrove Roofing
For the past four consecutive years, the Hargrove Roofing & Construction company of Shreveport, Louisiana, experts in both residential and commercial roofing (including installations, insurance...
Decko Doors
Decko Doors of Terrebonne, Quebec is one of Canada’s leading manufacturers of high-performance patio doors, something Quebec homeowners, developers, and contractors have recognized for many years....
Innovations in an Important Field
Once architects focused primarily on aesthetics, designing stunningly beautiful buildings. But that was then, and this is now, and in 2024 cladding and exteriors can still be aesthetically...
Guaranteed Supply Company
Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, with 15 locations in the Carolinas, Virginia, and Tennessee, Guaranteed Supply Company is focused on distributing the highest quality construction...
RES Group of Companies
For 65 years, the RES Group of Companies has been involved in the concrete forming, masonry, and architectural precast concrete trades, in both the residential and ICI (industrial, commercial, and...
CSM Group
What’s the key to business success? According to Stuart Mason, president and CEO of the CSM Group, a design-build company based in Kalamazoo, Michigan and licensed to work in 32 states, it comes...
Northgate Industries
Recently, it was our pleasure to sit down with Cheryl Watt, President of Northgate Industries Ltd., to learn the inside story of how the trailer parts and service business, first launched in her...
National Institute of Building Sciences
The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) is a non-profit, non-governmental agency established by Congress in 1974. With headquarters in Washington, DC, NIBS is tasked with developing...
Overly Door Company
The Overly Door Company, a certified ISO 9001:2015 company located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has roots going all the way back to 1888. The company is recognized for having the widest range of...
Axis Construction and MODLOGIQ
When Axis Construction of Hauppauge, New York—widely recognized as an innovator in construction, design, and management services—and MODLOGIQ of New Holland, Pennsylvania—which creates complex,...
Marble Trend
For 40 years, Marble Trend Ltd., Canada’s largest supplier of fine natural and sintered stone and porcelain products, has been bringing the look of luxury to residential and professional spaces. The...
Salex
Since 1973, Salex, a manufacturer’s representative, distributor, and facilitator of commercial lighting installations and their control systems, has been winning the confidence of clients with...
Slayden Plumbing & Heating Inc.
From its head office in North Pole and a branch in Wasilla, Alaska, Slayden Plumbing & Heating Inc. (SPHI), incorporated in 1983, has completed public and private projects in more than 75 cities...
Homestar Inc.
Homestar Inc., a full-service construction company based in Quispamsis, New Brunswick, continues to push itself to “make it happen for our customers,” says owner and CEO Mark Hatfield. Although...
Orcutt | Winslow
For over 50 years, the national design firm, Orcutt | Winslow has been disrupting architecture through innovation, experimentation, and invention. And it goes on… Orcutt | Winslow was founded in...
Workplace Wellness in Construction
Increasingly, the construction industry is embracing total human health, focusing on mind, body, and spirit when addressing wellness—but it hasn’t always been this way. “Safety is our number one...
Archadeck Nova Scotia and Case Design / Remodeling Halifax
Maurice Meagher, president and owner of Archadeck Nova Scotia and Case Design / Remodeling, Halifax, has every reason to be proud of the numerous awards the two franchises have won over the past 20...
Green Infrastructure
Urban planners are increasingly looking to build partnerships between nature and the construction industry. In finding solutions to stormwater runoff and other challenges, they are discovering that...
Atlantic Reinforcing Concrete Company
In 1992 when Erin Lynam, President and co-owner of the Atlantic Reinforcing Concrete Company, headquartered in Deer Park, New York, graduated from Briarcliff College in Patchogue, New York with a...
Lorneville
Headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick and with offices in Burlington, Ontario and Edmonton, Alberta, Lorneville Mechanical Contractors provide construction, turnaround, maintenance, and...
ERW Site Solutions
With headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, ERW Site Solutions is a member of the American Subcontractors Association and provides owners, developers, and general contractors with the seamless access to...
A Glasco Inc.
Located in Spring Valley, CA and serving the greater San Diego area since 1992, A Glasco Inc. is a family-owned-and-operated company specializing in residential and commercial glass and glazing. No...
ML Crane
A leader in the crane industry, ML Crane, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is a closely networked group of companies that provide customized solutions across diverse industries. We caught up with...
Practical Steps to Housing for All
For many North Americans, the idyllic image of a cosy home surrounded by a white-painted picket fence is far from reality. How are we dealing with the housing crisis that’s affecting more people...
Northumberland Properties
Andrew Cameron, Vice-President of Northumberland Properties, is a man on a mission. He believes that everyone – especially seniors – should have access to affordable and accessible housing wherever...
Delphi Plumbing & Heating
Delphi Plumbing & Heating is a leading industrial, institutional, and commercial contractor, providing essential services that keep 8.8 million New Yorkers healthy and safe. Metropolitan New York is...
Helmkamp Construction Company
Why should the Helmkamp Construction Company of East Alton, Illinois, serving southern Illinois and the metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri area, be the builder of choice for the repeat professional...
CSM Group
Winner of two 2022 National Excellence Awards from Associated Builders & Contractors and listed by them as a top performer, CSM Group shows what can happen when you bring together an exceptional...
Buildings by Design
In 2017, Construction in Focus featured Buildings by Design (BBD) of Brush, Colorado with its full range of construction services, including pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) systems. Since then,...
The Future of Wood in Construction
In the midst of the post-war building boom in 1949, just when steel and concrete skyscrapers reached impossible heights, Egon Glesinger wrote The Coming Age of Wood, published by Simon & Schuster....
Strait Crossing Bridge Ltd.
The 12.9 km (8.9-mile) Confederation Bridge linking Prince Edward Island to the mainland is a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway that crosses the Northumberland Strait. But that doesn’t begin to...
Implications for Architecture
As I was researching how architects are integrating nature into the built environment, I recalled an interview I had done for my Art Talk newspaper column in 2015 with realist artist Angelica De...
Gerflor Canada
Gerflor (with a soft ‘g’ as in ‘George’) Canada, with offices in Montreal and Toronto, offers design-led, innovative, decorative, eco-responsible, and complete solutions as one of the world’s...
Axis Construction and MODLOGIQ
It was our pleasure to catch up with John Buongiorno, Director of Axis Construction’s Modular Division in Hauppauge, New York, and Jim Gabriel, the new owner and President & CEO of MODLOGIQ,...
Smart and Safe Senior Living
Since the Baby Boom generation arrived in 1946, it’s kept construction very busy. In the 50s it was bigger schools, in the late 60s, college campuses, and in the 70s and 80s, homes in the suburbs....
CASE Design/Remodeling-Halifax and Archadeck Nova Scotia
Four years ago we featured Case Design Remodeling–Halifax and Archadeck Nova Scotia, award-winning companies dedicated to improving and transforming the way homes function, indoors and out. Now...
Vandyk Properties
At offices in Toronto, Ontario, and Sarasota, Florida, the driving force behind Vandyk Properties is a commitment to creating sustainable neighbourhoods and transit-oriented communities, with each...
Mainland Construction Materials
Since 1970, Mainland Construction Materials, headquartered in Langley, BC, has been committed to being the leading supplier of quarried stone, river sand, gravel, and recycled concrete and asphalt...
Provencher_Roy Architects
Provencher_Roy’s goal is sustainability in architecture interior design, urban design, urban planning, landscape architecture, and industrial design. Hailing from Montreal, this member of the Canada...
Resolute Building Company
Since its founding in Chapel Hill, NC, in 1984, general contractor Resolute Building Company has stayed true to its mission of putting the customer first through exceptional value, construction...
CSM Group
In a wide-ranging interview, Julie Byrne talks about her unique role as president of a large construction company, about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and how technology is moving the industry...
Shahan & Son Painting, Ltd.
Since 1946, Shahan & Son Painting has provided commercial, industrial, and institutional painting services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, where the company is recognized for quality,...
Roman Mosaic & Tile Company
Since 1902, Roman Mosaic & Tile has been a leader in flooring, the result of a fabulous marriage of traditional craftsmanship with modern technology and artistic creation, winning the National...
Axis Construction and MODLOGIQ
Off-site modular construction has clear advantages over on-site construction. So, why isn’t everyone doing it? John Buongiorno, Director of Axis Construction’s modular division and Jim Gabriel,...