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...
Entuitive
There’s a strong case that can be made for building green. Sale prices of commercial and residential green buildings that are certified to environmental rating systems can be up to 30 percent higher...
The Canada Green Building Council
As Canada continues to work toward a 2050 goal of net-zero carbon emissions, the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) is focused on creating a greener, more sustainable, and low-carbon building...
Conquest Equipment
From its home base of Saskatchewan, Conquest Equipment has been operating as a heavy construction equipment renter and seller since the 1990s, primarily in western Canada, with additional markets in...
SALTO Systems
The key to modern security may be no key at all; instead, it's simple solutions in installation and set-up from SALTO Systems: standalone, battery-powered electronic locks for access controls that...
Machinio
Boasting the world’s largest platform for buying and selling used machinery and equipment, Machinio makes it effortless for thousands of sellers to connect with thousands of buyers, facilitating...
KAEFER Canada Inc.
KAEFER Canada is the Canadian arm of a global leader in the field of insulation and related services. Originally founded in Germany in 1918, KAEFER has built a reputation for delivering quality...
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...
ABCO Systems
ABCO Systems Inc. is a market authority in solutions for warehousing and distribution center automation. From the pre-design phase to construction and automation, the company delivers the best...
Supreme Steel
As we continue to grapple with COVID-19, businesses have no choice but to adapt to a changed world. Is it better to diversify to engage a larger market, or to become a leader in a niche? In North...
HB McClure
The HB McClure Company is a heating and cooling systems contractor that has operated out of the Pennsylvania area for over 100 years – and operated for the last decade as 100 percent employee-owned....
McMillan Electric
Full-service electrical contractor McMillan Electric specializes in commercial tenant improvement and new construction. Under its low-voltage division MNetworks, the company also offers networking,...
Bird Mechanical Ltd.
Hybrid retrofitting can be a genuine pleasure when working with the right team. Guided by a pragmatic yet modern approach and tenacious industry experts, Bird Mechanical Ltd. offers much more than...
Panelized Building Solutions
If there’s a pandemic-based economic slowdown underway, Panelized Building Solutions (PBS) hasn’t heard of it. The Toronto-based manufacturer of prefabricated wall and flooring systems has not only...
AMC Foam Technologies
Changing the way we think about insulation means understanding the value of manufacturing and construction with environmental stewardship in mind. Using the term “we” is a deliberate choice for...
Burnaby Blacktop
You’re driving on a worn city street, trying to avoid the potholes, and then see the line where the smooth new pavement starts. You relax your grip on the wheel and cruise along the fresh blacktop,...
Theory Wellness/Dacon Corporation
With the ongoing legalization and societal acceptance of medical and recreational cannabis use, growth and purchase across the globe, providing safe, certified product to conscientious consumers has...
CTLGroup
There have been significant developments at CTLGroup since Construction in Focus profiled the Skokie, Illinois firm in October 2017. In addition to opening a New York City office, the company has...
Altius Architecture Inc.
Bringing planning, architecture, interior design, landscape, and construction into an integrated, harmonious whole in Ontario, Altius Architecture is keeping alive the philosophy and tradition of...
Peed Equipment Co.
In 1982, a longtime heavy equipment operator, Dennis M. Peed, started the Peed Equipment Company with the vision of “rebuilding D9H dozers from the frame up.” What he did build was an exemplary...
Steed and Evans Limited
With a growing demand for infrastructure, Ontario-based contractor Steed and Evans Limited sets the bar for quality construction, reconstruction, and repair of local public works and private...
The Appeal of Earthships
Is escaping big city congestion to take on tiny houses and off-the-grid living that reduces our environmental footprint the answer? More and more of us who are packing up, downsizing, and moving to...
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...
The Shift to Smarter Cities
Not a day goes by without stories mentioning “Smart,” an acronym for “self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology.” The idea was launched by IBM almost 30 years ago. Today, “Smart” has found...
LPR Construction
For LPR Construction, an essential service, the past year's pandemic has seen the company meet challenges head-on with strength and resilience – executing its steel erection, industrial...
Coreslab Structures (OKLA) Inc.
To meet the needs of today's erratic weather patterns, construction must evolve. America’s Midwestern Tornado Alley region is especially at risk. But in Oklahoma City, Coreslab Structures (OKLA)...
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,...
Structural Panels Inc.
A leader in Canadian construction, family-owned Structural Panels Inc. (SPI) has a rich history as a top supplier of structural insulated panels to construction companies, architects, designers,...
Adi Development Group
The world of Adi Development Group is one of innovation, improvement, and growth. While there appear to be few in construction who are ready and willing to seize what new technology can offer the...
Designscapes Colorado
Wouldn’t you like to step outside to cool off in your pool and lounge by the relaxing greenery? Maybe cook up something fabulous in the outdoor kitchen and have friends over for a meal and a...
Clarence Davids & Co.
Clarence Davids, Sr. launched his landscape company in 1951 with one truck, a seventh-grade education, and lots of can-do attitude. “His office was the back porch,” remembers his son, current...
Crystal Greens Landscape
Crystal Greens Landscape specializes in all phases of commercial landscape management. Since its founding in 1990, the Portland, Oregon-based business has helped clients maintain and improve...
Geosource Energy
Geoexchange is how geothermal energy, generated and stored below the Earth’s surface, provides efficient and cost-effective heating, cooling, and hot water to a home or structure. Because the...
Cantiro
After over two decades in business, it was name-change time for the powerhouse Beaverbrook Group of Companies. CEO George Cantalini and team spent three years restructuring, sometimes merging, and...
Crafting Earth-Friendly Materials and Techniques
We’re not expecting the internet to suddenly go dark or electricity to fail – but there’s certainly a growing interest in living more self-sufficiently. People are planting vegetable gardens, using...
Callahan Inc.
Considering the ease with which Callahan, Inc. dominates several diverse construction markets, going big is not at all daunting for this forward-thinking company. For this construction giant,...
Machinio
Boasting the world’s largest platform for buying and selling used machinery and equipment, Machinio makes it effortless for thousands of sellers to connect with thousands of buyers, facilitating...
New Path Construction and Consulting
Adam Garcia launched New Path Construction and Consulting in May 2016 with a simple vision in mind: he wanted to stress business acumen and fundamentals during construction deals while embracing an...
How To Create Safer Spaces and Healthier Homes
The construction industry is typically slow to evolve. Despite the existence of countless new innovations and technologies, and safer, better ways to do things, it is an industry where tried and...
Bioesque Solutions
A year after COVID-19 arrived we are still wiping and re-wiping homes and workplaces with harsh disinfectants. Now Bioesque has a safer and more effective alternative that's quicker and easier to...
Egan Visual Inc.
Some of the best modern-day inventions that you know of and use were likely created from an idea that was started on a whiteboard. From the creation of Air Jordan, iPhone, Tesla, and Xbox, to...
CBS Rentals
In January 2020, CBS Rentals, a fast-growing construction equipment rental firm based in the Houston area, achieved a remarkable milestone. CBS set a record for equipment rented numbers to clients,...
AGF
Construction wouldn't be construction without one of the greatest duos in the game – the combination of reinforcing bar and concrete. And, at the top of their game, Quebec's AGF Group is a worldwide...
STAR Inc.
For over 35 years, Girish C. Dubey has gone to work every morning to make a positive difference to the pavement industry – and to the world. A veteran of a demanding and crucial industry, Dubey, the...
Asphalt Specialists Inc.
What happens when you spend your high school summers getting up at 4:30 a.m. to go to work for a civil engineering contractor and learn the ropes of putting in underground utilities like water mains...
Alpha Structural Inc.
David Tourjé found a place in the construction community after his parents moved to the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Mount Washington when he was twelve years old. “Back then it was a...
What Would a City Designed by Women Look Like?
True story: two female real estate developers turned the site of a former strip club in Toronto into a nine-story, 197-unit condo building named Reina, which is the Spanish word for queen. In a...
Boudreau Pipeline Corporation
Boudreau Pipeline Corporation is known for being different, but in all the right ways. For 23 years, the company has served Southern California with immaculate underground utilities work. But, more...
Falcon Structures
Strong, durable, adaptable, transportable, affordable, and quick to produce – what's not to like about working spaces and living spaces transformed from shipping containers by Texas-based Falcon...
All Commercial Floors
In the November 2019 issue of Construction in Focus, we noted All Commercial Floors’ (ACF) growth and success. Since that story ran, the commercial flooring company based in Grand Prairie, Texas has...
Glengate Company
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort,” said Jane Austen in Emma. Surely she would endorse Connecticut's Glengate Company, which loves to create pools and gardens for clients...
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...
George D. Alan Company
Do you know what can happen if you don’t properly waterproof a building? The George D. Alan Company (GDA) does. The Texas-based commercial waterproofing company has been telling those who will...
OTG Construction
Tyler Galaski has been around the construction industry in one way or another for his whole life. He remembers accompanying his father, Dave Galaski, on job sites as a youngster and enjoyed building...
Hasler Homes Ltd
In the quest to be as ecologically and environmentally aware as possible, BC-based Hasler Homes Ltd has taken its building process to a new level with its ongoing commitment to Net Zero...
Minto Communities Canada
Faced with the twin challenges of expanding cities and accelerating climate change, sustainable home development is crucial. In Eastern Canada, Minto Communities has built a reputation for doing...
Building Knowledge Canada
Building science is the interaction of heat, air, and moisture with the built environment. As the world moves toward a greener future to help fend off the effects of climate change, we have to...
Canadian Home Builders’ Association (CHBA)
What’s the one bill you dread seeing the most every month? For many, it’s their heating bill. If your house is a bit on the drafty side, you often need to crank up the thermostat – but that ends up...
Campbell & Company
In Washington State’s Tri-City and Yakima areas, Campbell & Company maintains, repairs, and replaces HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing and sewer systems in local homes and businesses to the highest of...
New Cycling Infrastructure Creates New Construction Opportunities
COVID-19 has created new concerns and complications for mass transit. Physical distancing is challenging – if not impossible – on subways, buses, and trains. For instance, when encountering just 30...