Holcim acquires Langley Concrete Group

Holcim has acquired the operations of Langley Concrete Group Inc., a provider of precast solutions based in British Columbia. This strategic move marks the company’s entry into the precast concrete market in the province, expanding its national capabilities and strengthening its footprint in the rapidly growing infrastructure sector. The acquisition includes two state-of-the-art production facilities in Chilliwack and Duncan, British Columbia. These facilities will serve the local region and manufacture a wide range of dry-cast and wet-cast concrete products for both above- and below-ground infrastructure applications.
BM Group announces Merrit Ready Mix brand

BM Group of Companies has launched Merritt Ready Mix, a new concrete supply venture strategically located in the fast-growing City of Merritt, British Columbia. Built using existing infrastructure, the operation offers a full suite of services including ready-mix concrete, aggregates, rebar sales, foundation form rentals, and Hiab crane truck deliveries. Positioned to serve rising demand from local real estate and infrastructure projects, Merritt Ready Mix will also benefit from close collaboration with nearby Princeton Ready Mix, enhancing regional service capacity.
PCL expands presence in America’s Southwest region

PCL Construction is expanding its presence with a new commercial buildings office in Phoenix, building on over 30 years of successful water and civil operations in the Southwest. Led by 20-year PCL veteran David Campbell, the office aims to support the city’s rapid growth across sectors like aviation, hospitality, and retail. Already active in regional philanthropy, PCL plans to deepen its community involvement as it shapes Phoenix’s evolving skyline.
Crown expands into Alberta

Crown Building Supplies has expanded into Alberta with the acquisition of ADSS Building Supplies, adding new locations in Calgary and Edmonton, including a 60,000 square foot facility in Calgary. This strategic move marks a major milestone in the company’s growth, enhancing its ability to serve the Western Canadian market with the same reliable products and service that have defined its decade-long success. By integrating operations, inventory, and customer relationships, Crown aims to continue delivering professional, transparent support to contractors and builders across the region.
TBT Engineering merges with LBE Group

TBT Engineering Limited (TBTE), a multi-disciplinary firm based in northwestern Ontario, is marking its 30th anniversary with significant expansion, including a merger with Kenora-based LBE Group Inc. and the opening of a new office in Ottawa. These moves add 15 professionals and broaden TBTE’s capabilities in structural, mechanical, electrical, civil, environmental, and geotechnical engineering, along with hydrogeological and geoenvironmental services.
CM Labs acquires AI Redefined

CM Labs Simulations has acquired AI Redefined (AIR) to enhance its mission of transforming workforce development through intelligent, real-time training solutions. Known for its Vortex platform and over 25 years of simulation expertise, CM Labs aims to integrate AIR’s AI technology—originally developed for aerospace and defense—to create adaptive training environments that evolve with learners. This move strengthens CM Labs’ commitment to empowering operators and trainers with innovative tools that reflect real-world demands, rather than replacing them with automation.
Women Building Futures sets up in Ontario

Women Building Futures, a non-profit founded in Edmonton in 1998 to support women and gender-diverse individuals in achieving economic security through skilled trades, has expanded its training programs to Sarnia, Ontario—its third province. The expansion targets high-opportunity sectors like petrochemicals, agriculture, and automotive, with the first Ontario program launching in August focused on automotive service and heavy equipment technician training.
SALUS unveils safety assistant tool for mobile

SALUS has introduced the Construction Safety Assistant, a free mobile tool that lets construction crews quickly generate safety documents—including toolbox talks, safe-work procedures, risk assessments, pre-task plans, checklists and general safety Q&A—directly from their phones or tablets. The assistant draws on an AI engine called SALUS IQ, which is also embedded in the company’s paid safety-management platform that offers features such as instant digitization of paper forms, automatic translation of submissions, upcoming certificate verification and other AI-driven document and search capabilities.
Vector Construction, PULLMAN merge to form Vector Restoration

Vector Restoration—formed by merging the Canadian offices of PULLMAN with Vector Construction’s Canadian branches—now pools the expertise of both firms to repair and extend the life of buildings and civil infrastructure across the country. From its four offices, the company serves commercial, public, water-and-wastewater, power, industrial and transportation clients, using union agreements to tap a nationwide pool of skilled craftworkers that supplements its own full-time crews. Vector specializes in concrete repair, corrosion mitigation and structural preservation, and, as a licensee of Structural Technologies, combines proprietary products, engineering support and field services to deliver projects of any scale under the leadership teams familiar to existing customers.
Bird Infrastructure acquires Tin Knockers

Bird Infrastructure—an Ontario-based mechanical contractor that traces its roots to Jack Bird Plumbing & Heating in 1971—has bought the final 50% of Tin Knockers Custom, a Newmarket, Ont., sheet-metal and structural-steel fabricator, after taking an initial half-stake in 2021. The deal makes Tin Knockers a wholly owned subsidiary and folds its roughly 40,000-sq-ft plant and custom metal-fabrication capabilities into Bird’s integrated construction and fabrication operations in Ontario and Nova Scotia.
Contech startup wins $30,000 ‘Prize of the Prairies’

ConstructionClock, a Manitoba-based startup that automates hands-free time tracking for contractors, has won the inaugural $30,000 “Prize of the Prairies” at the 2025 Uniting the Prairies tech summit in Saskatoon. The award honours early-stage companies showing strong traction and growth potential, and the cash will help ConstructionClock expand the app that automatically logs site hours and gives contractors real-time labour-cost visibility.
BPA brings Ecovert into the fold

BPA has acquired sustainability consulting firm Ecovert and its controls-focused affiliate EcovertCx, adding more than 30 staff and 200-plus LEED projects’ experience to BPA’s growing Toronto operation. Founded in 2007, Ecovert delivers building certification, zero-carbon design, energy modelling, measurement-and-verification planning, and whole-building life-cycle assessments, while Kitchener-based EcovertCx handles lighting, boiler, rooftop-unit and integrated controls commissioning. The deal raises BPA’s Toronto sustainability group to over 50 professionals and follows recent local acquisitions in mechanical (TMP), electrical (HCC) and structural (Honeycomb, DKWatson) engineering.
White Cap to buy Raider Hansen

White Cap Supply Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to buy Cascade Raider Holdings Ltd. (Raider Hansen), a British Columbia distributor that operates eight tool, safety-gear and equipment branches, folding the business into White Cap Canada and enlarging its coast-to-coast footprint. The deal adds Raider Hansen’s local technical expertise to White Cap’s network of about 500 North American branches, 10,500 employees and 200,000 contractor customers, and supports the U.S. company’s strategy of expanding its specialty-construction-supply and safety-product offerings in the Canadian market.
Veerum raises $12M in Series B round

Calgary-based Veerum has raised $12 million CAD in a Series B round that closed March 26, led by Emerson Ventures and Veriten with follow-on support from BDC Capital and Evok Innovations. Founded in 2014, Veerum supplies “digital twin” software that lets energy, mining, construction and other heavy-asset operators inspect and manage sites remotely; the new capital will be used to add features, improve delivery for firms of varying sizes, and broaden its customer base. The company last raised $7.4 million in a 2021 Series A and says the latest funding positions it to make visual operations a standard tool across asset-intensive industries.
BBA adds adds two firms to enhance Canadian operations

BBA has expanded its national environmental consulting capabilities through the acquisitions of Groupe Synergis in Québec and CPP Environmental in Alberta, bringing over 180 professionals into its team. These firms add expertise in areas such as biophysical assessments, regulatory compliance, aquatic sciences, social acceptability, and landscape studies, strengthening BBA’s integrated approach to environmental and engineering services. The acquisitions enhance BBA’s ability to serve clients across Canada in sectors like energy, mining, and natural resources, while maintaining strong regional partnerships—including with Indigenous communities—and ensuring leadership continuity within the acquired firms.
CIMA+ buys Calgary-based firm B&A

CIMA+, one of Canada’s largest employee-owned engineering consultancies, has bought Calgary-headquartered B&A—an urban-planning, design and community-engagement firm with additional offices in Edmonton and Vancouver—effective May 1, 2025. The deal introduces a national urban-planning practice into CIMA+’s portfolio and strengthens its Western Canadian footprint, bringing B&A’s staff, reputation and project record under CIMA+’s umbrella of multidisciplinary services that already cover mechanical, electrical, structural and environmental engineering.
Englobe buys Nanaimo-based Herold Engineering

Englobe Corporation has bought Nanaimo-based Herold Engineering, a 70-person firm with offices in Victoria and Ucluelet that specialises in building, municipal, transportation and marine projects, including mass-timber and coastal concrete work. The deal gives Englobe its first foothold on Vancouver Island, completes a coast-to-coast Canadian presence, and keeps Herold operating as a separate division with its leadership team intact.
Maple Reinders luanches safety consulting advisory

Maple Reinders has launched Maple Safety Consulting, a service that offers smaller contractors customized help with safety orientation, training, documentation and compliance. The initiative builds on the company’s long-standing safety culture: Maple Reinders has been COR-certified in Ontario since 2012, fields a country-wide team of safety professionals, and plays an active role in the Ontario General Contractors Association and the League of Champions, whose board is currently chaired by the firm’s CEO. By formalizing this advisory arm, Maple Reinders aims to share its in-house practices and support peers in reducing incidents industry-wide.
Enbridge sells portion of pipeline to Indigenous group

Enbridge has agreed to sell a 12.5 % stake in its 2,900-km, 65-year-old Westcoast natural-gas pipeline system to the Stonlasec8 Indigenous Alliance—which represents 36 First Nations in British Columbia—for about C$715 million. The partnership will fund the purchase partly through a C$400 million federal loan guarantee issued by the new Canada Indigenous Loan Guarantee Corporation, the first deal under that program. The transaction, slated to close by the end of Q2 2025 once financing and other conditions are met, gives the participating Nations a long-term revenue stream from infrastructure on their territories and advances Enbridge’s strategy of offering equity stakes to Indigenous communities along its assets.
ZS2 releases Gen 2 low-carbon gypsum boards

Calgary-based ZS2 Technologies has started full-scale production of its second-generation magnesium-cement panels and boards, manufactured with a patented waste-to-cement process that uses Canadian industrial by-products and reduces embodied carbon to about one-third of conventional Portland cement. Backed by $9.9 million in government grants and third-party non-combustibility and fire-resistance certifications, the Gen 2 line is intended as a domestic alternative to gypsum board, OSB and imported MgO products; offerings include the TechTile raised-floor system for data centres. ZS2 says the material—already specified for projects in Alberta, California and elsewhere—is now available across North America to meet stricter fire codes and sustainability targets.
Wildstone purchases fruit-growing brand

Penticton-based Wildstone Capital has agreed to buy BC Tree Fruits’ intellectual property, equipment and Okanagan facilities for about $23 million, acquiring the cooperative’s familiar green-leaf logo and trademarks plus a packing plant in Oliver and receiving sites in Summerland and Keremeos. The deal follows last year’s dissolution of the 88-year-old growers’ co-op and will see Wildstone partner with Ontario’s Algoma Orchards to process fruit from local producers, keeping the BC Tree Fruits brand alive and restoring a marketing outlet for roughly 200 farming families across the valley.
VINCI acquires Peters Bros

VINCI Construction has finalised the acquisition of Peters Bros Construction Ltd, a paving company providing roadwork services and asphalt products in the province of British Columbia. The company registered an annual revenue of about $90 million in 2024. Founded in 1981 and based in the Okanagan Valley, Peters Bros employs 140 people at peak season and operates mainly in the BC interior region, with regular projects in the Dawson Creek, Williams Lake, Merritt, Kelowna and Penticton areas.
Concert purchases remaining stake in Concert-Bird Partners

‘Concert Infrastructure Fund (CIF) has bought Bird Capital Limited Partnership’s remaining 20% stake in Concert-Bird Partners, giving CIF full control of the concession that designed, built, financed, and now maintains five new high schools in Alberta under the P3 Schools Bundle 2 DBFM contract. Finished in May 2024 on time and on budget, the LEED-Silver-targeted campuses in Leduc, Blackfalds, Langdon and two Edmonton sites provide space for about 6,900 students and have already earned national P3 project awards; facilities-management duties remain with Ainsworth under the existing maintenance agreement.
Heidelberg buys southeast Calgary aggregates yard

Heidelberg Materials North America has purchased Concrete Crushers Inc.’s southeast-Calgary recycled-aggregates yard and its contract crushing fleet of four mobile plants, expanding the company’s local capacity to process and supply recycled concrete. The bolt-on deal enlarges Heidelberg’s footprint in the Calgary market, brings CCI’s employees onto its team and advances the firm’s strategy of growing circular and low-impact materials offerings within its core regions.