Kirkor Architects and Planners
Kirkor Architects and Planners is a Canadian architectural design and planning firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Specializing in responsible development, the company is focused on architectural solutions that blend sustainable design and community integration. Currently, Kirkor is working as the architect of record on two landmark developments: the Bayside masterplan, and Aqualuna at Bayside, in the East Bayview district of downtown Toronto.
RMW
California-based design firm RMW Architecture & Interiors has three studio locations across the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, and Sacramento. It was established in 1970 by David Robinson and Matthew Mills. In 1981, David Williams joined and the three cemented the name Robinson Mills + Williams (RMW) for the firm.
Winmar Construction
Winmar Construction Inc. loves unique, even tough, projects. With an extensive portfolio showcasing world-class commercial interiors, hospitality, retail and restaurant projects, base building, adaptive reuse and more, this award-winning company may not be the biggest firm in the United States, but it continues to deliver some of the largest, most visible projects on the market.
Construction Careers for Women
We’ve all seen construction sites firsthand in our daily lives over the years, whether passing by in our vehicles or on foot, or maybe even when arranging our own homebuilding or renovation projects. We may not pay much attention to the skilled tradespeople on hand doing the hard labour, whether it’s loading and unloading tools and equipment, assembling scaffolding, assisting contractors, or mixing, pouring and levelling concrete. We may not know everything that construction workers do, but we probably have a pretty clear mental image of what they look like – and that picture doesn’t typically include women.
Chesapeake Bay Steel
Founded in 1962, Norfolk, Virginia-based Chesapeake Bay Steel (CBSI) has long been a fixture in the Virginia Tidewater area. The company specializes in steel fabrication and erection and has had a hand in many recognizable projects throughout the region. After decades of experience, the team is expanding the company’s reach while maintaining the values of this family-owned-and-operated business.
Allied Blower
This Surrey, B.C.-based company has a similar story to any other manufacturing outfit these days: “Things were going well, then the pandemic hit.” But Allied Blower has achieved a key expansion milestone: expansion into the United States.
PSC Crane & Rigging
Many U.S. companies haul heavy things, but to safely and efficiently transport tunnel-boring machinery or nuclear power transformers that weigh a million-and-a-half pounds needs more than the right equipment – it demands years of experience.
Tarrant Roofing
In the construction sector, experience counts, and few companies are more experienced than Tarrant Roofing. While the Tarrant team is building roofing, the business they’re truly in is building trust.
The Geiler Company
Founded nearly 150 years ago, The Geiler Company of Cincinnati, Ohio is a woman-owned, family-run business that provides heating, plumbing, and cooling services for residential and commercial clients. Specialties include installing, repairing, and servicing plumbing systems, process piping and refrigeration, pump-related work, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. The company is weathering the COVID-19 lockdown and looking forward to the future.
American Refrigeration Company
American Refrigeration Company (ARC) has long been New England’s leading industrial refrigeration contractor, providing design-build, installation, and maintenance services for industrial, commercial and process refrigeration systems. While the company’s relationship-based approach made it the largest industrial refrigeration contractor in the area, the acquisition/merger with Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Company further solidified that, combining the top two contractors in the north east.
Direct Mechanical and Direct Electric
Direct Mechanical and Direct Electric, with their recent merger, are a giant step closer to offering a complete mechanical construction program to general contractors for ground-up construction and major renovations…
National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)
It’s going to take a lot more than a global pandemic to slow the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) down. In fact, the organization was not only prepared to face the challenges ushered in by COVID-19, it has found ways to leverage the circumstance in its favor to accelerate change and spur growth.
McDonald Electrical Corporation
Electrical contracting, perhaps more than any other type of contracting work, offers a wide variety of subcategories, each of which requires specialized expertise. As such, it can be difficult to locate a single contractor that is knowledgeable in all aspects of this vital service.
Delphi Plumbing & Heating
Delphi Plumbing & Heating Inc., an industrial and commercial mechanical contractor in Brooklyn, New York, owes its success to old-fashioned business ethics, leading-edge technology, loyal, hardworking employees, and an owner whose story epitomizes the American dream.
Damon-Marcus Company
Damon-Marcus Company has stayed busy while keeping its workers safe throughout the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown with comprehensive measures to maintain employee health in the face of the coronavirus. This full-service mechanical contractor is based in Bartlett, Tennessee and licensed to work in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The company offers welding, plumbing, mechanical work, sheet metal, pipefitting, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) projects. It also performs maintenance on HVAC and plumbing equipment.
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Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC)
Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) provides a depth and breadth of services, programs, and opportunities for manufacturers. Headquartered in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a national presence, EMC also encourages young people to enter the manufacturing workforce and is always looking for ways to enhance the sector.
Facing Up to What’s Facing Construction
When you think of the world’s largest industry, perhaps agriculture or energy come to mind—but it turns out they’re not the biggest.
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
After profiling the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) sustainability efforts in previous articles, Construction in Focus caught up with the organization once again, this time to learn about an exciting new report. State of Decarbonization: Progress in U.S. Commercial Buildings 2023 discusses the sector’s progress, the current status of data availability, and mechanisms available to reduce the carbon emissions of commercial buildings in the United States—the first report to compile all of this information into a single source.
Cushing Terrell
There is a quote attributed to Wayne Gretzky that you have likely seen in PowerPoint presentations. It is the one about skating to where the puck is going, rather than where it is. In hockey, Gretzky seemed to have a preternatural ability to anticipate the best place to be. In business, Cushing Terrell has that same knack.
Animal Arts Design Studios
When thinking about architecture and building design, we know much time and thought goes into creating sound, healthy, and attractive structures for people, but what about housing for our animal friends? Animal Arts Design Studios specializes exclusively in animal care design, including animal shelters and veterinary hospitals, with a proven track record of success with more than 1,500 projects in 40 U.S. states, Canada, and overseas, ranging in size from 600 to 110,000 square feet.
Enercare
Coming together to address a vital energy need in the market, Enercare and Subterra Renewables are working to decarbonize living in the way we interact in our homes, transitioning away from fossil fuel powered systems to renewable geothermal energy. Finalized in Q4 2023, the partnership of these two Canadian companies represents a first-of-a-kind industry relationship aimed at providing quality products, service, and results to clients, all while helping to reduce our carbon footprints.
