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Wilson Lumber — By David O'Neill

Doing the Right Thing for Over Seventy Years

The lumber industry is well known for its many virtues. Hard work, commitment and honesty being just a few. These are foundations that speak (…)

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Traditional Values Underpinning a Cutting Edge Approach

Luck Bros. Inc. — By Martin Foran

A long and proud history contributes to the solid foundation upon which Plattsburgh, NY’s Luck Bros Inc. has been built. What’s more, this fundamental (…)

The Canadian Dream

Central Precast — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

As President of Central Precast Inc. John Mion explains, the company started out as a “Canadian dream story” in which an Italian immigrant, with (…)

The Key to Our Success Is Our People

AT-PAC — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

AT-PAC is a family-owned and operated business that has become a leading provider of scaffolding rental and sales both in the US and globally. (…)

A Structural Steel Evolution

Concord Fabricators — By Dan Scanlon

Change is hard. There is a fundamental tension between progress and staying true to the principles that brought success in the first place. These, (…)

Evercast

Growth Without Neglecting Values

Evercast Concrete — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

Evercast Concrete Inc. is a pre-cast and pre-stressed concrete focused manufacturer with a footprint that today services Washington DC, down to Florida, and all (…)

If You Dream It, We’ll Build It

LoDuca Associates — By Aoife Chaney

Collaboration, creativity, and integrity. These are the three core values of LoDuca Associates, an award-winning construction company operating out of Blue Point NY. LoDuca’s (…)

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Women Keeping the Show on the Road

IBC — By Georgie Downes

When voters in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, approved funding for a new transportation system involving Phase I, two-mile streetcar track ripping through the city, (…)

Stratospheric Scaffolding Growth

Prime Industrial Access — By Dan Scanlon

Starting a new business from scratch is always fraught with peril. Most businesses don’t survive the early years’ gauntlet of interconnected problems to ever (…)

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Northern Michigan and the ‘Easling Difference’

Easling Construction — By Aoife Chaney

It takes a village to raise a child is a phrase that has taken on many different meanings over the years. Used in the (…)

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Embracing Technology in North America’s Growing Steel...

Federal Steel & Erection Co. — By Aoife Chaney

Sometimes, like in the case of Illinois’s Federal Steel & Erection Co., the meaning of a family business goes much deeper than just a (…)

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Supporting Construction Inside and Out

Cleveland City Forge — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

Cleveland City Forge (CCF) are an innovative manufacturing and engineering company that combines product development alongside production to produce standard and custom structural steel (…)

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Green Infrastructure

By David O'Neill

Growth across the construction industry has long been a balance between the habitation and infrastructure needs of an ever-growing population and the requirements of (…)

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Wellbeing Living – Building Smart in a Post Pandemic ...

By David O'Neill

As we now find ourselves two years into the pandemic, the onus is on us all to develop new and innovative ways of living (…)

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Bringing Longevity to the EV Market

By David O'Neill

The electric vehicle (EV) market is, despite the fanfare and encouragement, still very much in its infancy. While early adopters of the vehicles are (…)

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For Highbury, Safety is Concrete

Highbury Concrete — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

Highbury Concrete is a concrete superstructure company based in New York City. They have worked on the skeletons of many buildings visible in the (…)

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Moving Earth in Sweet Carolina

Langston Construction — By Georgie Downes

Their mission statement sets an ambitious tone. In short, they promise to consistently deliver a trouble-free project experience; to be responsible and accountable for (…)

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Deep Roots in the Carolinas

Blythe Development — By Dan Scanlon

The modern world is replete with attempts at efficiency. Hacks, shortcuts, and productivity apps are peddled at every aspect of life. Whatever we need (…)

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If It’s Tech on The Roof, It’s RoofTek

RoofTek — By Aoife Chaney

The roofs we live under today are a far cry from the straw-thatched roofs of the mid eighteenth century. Often equipped now with durable (…)

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The Future Is Foam

Airfoam — By Aoife Chaney

It is often said that once we’ve got a roof over our heads and food on the table, everything else will fall into place. While (…)

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Focusing on Growth Through Adversity

JR & Co. — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

JR & Co. install, service, and maintain the exterior envelope of commercial buildings including roofing, roofing metal, wall panels, solar arrays, and more. In (…)

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A Lifetime Commitment to Industry Success

Carolinas AGC — By Aoife Chaney

“Nobody represents the construction industry in the Carolinas like Carolinas AGC,” says Dave Simpson, President & CEO of the award-winning trade association. It takes (…)

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What We Learned at The Buildings Show 2021

The Buildings Show — By David O'Neill

The Buildings Show 2021 took place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from December 1st – 3rd. The event was billed as an opportunity (…)

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Material Shortages, Price Volatility and Lack of Work...

National Roofing Contractors Association — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

The National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) is a membership driven advocacy organization, working in the interests of the roofing industry in America. The NRCA (…)

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The Education Flywheel

Heidler Roofing — By Dan Scanlon

The bottom line can be an unforgiving master in business. Laser focus on black and red can seem like the most sensible modus operandi, especially in a rapidly changing (…)

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Spreading the Word

Construction & Demolition Recycling Association — By David O'Neill

When it comes to sustainability, construction can occasionally get a bad rep. As a result of the ever-growing knowledge base around carbon emissions, coupled (…)

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The Concrete Cutters

Advanced Concrete Cutting & Coring — By Georgie Downes

QUESTION: What do you do with an unwanted swimming pool? Maybe it’s the size or the color or the shape that doesn’t suit, or (…)

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Skilled Worker Shortage – Can Education Help Construc...

By David O'Neill

An industry is only ever as good as its workforce and construction is no different in this regard. Going right back to the formation (…)

Collectively Changing the Climate

By David O'Neill

Change takes time. Not only that, it needs a delicate balance of innovation, hard work and luck. However, the unfortunate truth is that with (…)

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Construction for Change – Innovation Through Equality

By David O'Neill

Recent history, both economic and environmental, has been dramatic to say the least. As external pressures are crushing the fragile recovery being experienced across (…)

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Diversity in Construction

By David O'Neill

As construction continues to rebound from the wider economic damage caused by the pandemic, challenges remain. Resulting from the ongoing supply issues, postponements and (…)

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Skyline Building Blocks

RC Structures — By Joanne Kelter

Superstructure Contractor in New York City New York, New York: port of arrival and emblem of the New World, new beginnings and where dreams (…)

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Just Getting On With It

Hady Construction — By Joanne Kelter

“We’re not hoity-toity or high falutin’,” says Peter Naccarato, the down-to-earth Director of Construction at Hady Construction Associates. This is one of the factors (…)

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The Infrastructure Bill – Construction Waits at...

By David O'Neill

The United States is approaching its tenth month of the Biden Administration and, given the fanfare that surrounded the mission to Build Back Better (…)

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Gimme Shelter

Preservation Services — By Georgie Downes

Roofs are the Cinderella of the architectural world. While facias and facades garner attention and praise, roofs rarely get so much as an honorable (…)

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Built on Family Values

J.C. Steel — By Anthony O'Keeffe

Cindy Adams-Amplo, President of J.C. Steel, sits behind her desk in a large but functional office. Next to her is her husband and the (…)

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In the Trenches Together

Chicago Fire Protection — By David O'Neill

“An overwhelmingly huge part of our successes comes from our employees, and the day to day, hard work that they do and also our (…)

JGM industrial site build

Construction in the Crucible

JGM — By Dan Scanlon

It requires people of a particular mindset to get excited by the prospect of taking on a fast-track construction project, that if you fail to execute, could result in (…)

US Framing project aerial view

Every Great Piece of Art Needs Its Frame

US Framing — By Aoife Chaney

In North America, where trees are plentiful and lumber remains the dominant material used in new-builds throughout the nation, the construction industry depends heavily (…)

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The People Are the Business

Cooling Tower Maintenance — By Emma Kilcawley Hemani

Founded in 1976, Cooling Tower Maintenance Inc. (CTM) is the largest and oldest independent maintenance and service company for cooling towers in Canada. With (…)

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Bridges to Prosperity

Bridges to Prosperity — By David O'Neill

The construction industry is one that is borne from necessity; a simple equation that has served its customers and the wider world very well (…)

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Tilt-Up’s Northern Exposure

Tilt Wall Ontario — By Dan Scanlon

There are, as they say, many ways to skin a cat. An antiquated aphorism to be sure, but the kernel of truth behind it (…)

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Breaking New Ground With HDPE Pipe

Pipeline Plastics — By Martin Foran

Talking to Mike Leathers, CEO of Pipeline Plastics, (PLP), on the occasion of their tenth anniversary, it’s clear that the organization has come a (…)

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Passionate about Natural Stone

Select Stone Supply — By David O'Neill

“There is a lot to learn about. When you are just buying and selling a product that has been shipped to you; to me (…)

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Family Foundations

Fernandes Masonry — By Dan Scanlon

There’s a general adage when it comes to getting into business with friends and family; maybe think twice. Money has a pernicious ability to wend its way (…)