Construction Today
The Magazine for the People Who Build America
Construction Today examines best practices in the general building, heavy construction and associated specialty trade sectors. Its readers are leaders at major contracting, engineering and design firms, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and building products, as well as public and private project owners and regulators.
Construction Today helps firms navigate the world of business through insightful, cross-industry articles on trends, opinions and legal issues, as well as intriguing interviews with the industry's most interesting and influential men and women.
Construction Today
The Magazine for the People Who Build America
Construction Today examines best practices in the general building, heavy construction and associated specialty trade sectors. Its readers are leaders at major contracting, engineering and design firms, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and building products, as well as public and private project owners and regulators.
Construction Today helps firms navigate the world of business through insightful, cross-industry articles on trends, opinions and legal issues, as well as intriguing interviews with the industry's most interesting and influential men and women.
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Construction Today
The Magazine for the People Who Build America
Construction Today examines best practices in the general building, heavy construction and associated specialty trade sectors. Its readers are leaders at major contracting, engineering and design firms, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of construction materials and building products, as well as public and private project owners and regulators.
Construction Today helps firms navigate the world of business through insightful, cross-industry articles on trends, opinions and legal issues, as well as intriguing interviews with the industry's most interesting and influential men and women.
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L.T.L. CONTRACTING Civil contractor L.T.L. Contracting performs work in the municipal, industrial, mining and commercial sectors.
A Good Work Ethic is Key
L.T.L. Contracting, based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, is diversifying its services and completed its first sewage treatment plant earlier this year. The company also plans to expand its drilling division. By Libby John mainly does projects for townships in northern Ontario.
E arlier this year, L.T.L. Contracting completed its first
sewage treatment plant in Geralton, Ontario, Can- ada. Although the $10 million project was a first for the company, President Scott MacLeod says it did not face major challenges. “We hired some subcontractors to do the Harvey Laurin, Vick Laurin and Brian Tetlock founded the company in 1981. The Laurin brothers had previously worked for their father in the landscaping business, Mac- Leod says. However, the company moved away from land- scaping and instead focused on sewer, water and road specialty work for us,” he explains, which is a standard work because there was greater potential in those markets. practice for the company. According to the Council of Ontario Construction Assoc- The company, based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a civil iations (COCA), the construction industry encompasses and general contractor that performs work in the munici- nearly 6 percent of the province’s labor force, equaling pal, industrial, mining and commercial sectors. The proj- 411,000 jobs. “We have a lot of good employees who ects typically involve the various aspects of earth moving, work together as a team,” MacLeod says. “They have a underground infrastructure installations, good work ethic.” L.T.L. Contracting www.ltlcontracting.com site development, municipal infrastruc- “Most of our employees are trained in-house,” he adds. 2006 revenues: $20 million ture upgrades including road and bridges, COCA says the economic impact of the regional con- Headquarters: Thunder Bay, marine installations, contaminated site struction industry is significant. For example, the gross Ontario, Canada Employees: 70 clean-up, trenchless installations and water domestic product for construction is 3.1 percent in Specialty: Civil construction/ sewage treatment systems. Ontario, which is over two times higher than other indus- directional drilling MacLeod says the company participat- tries at 1.5 percent. Scott MacLeod: “We have a lot of good employees who ed in the one-year sewer treatment plant Every $1 million invested in construction in Ontario work together as a team.” project as a way to diversify its services. It produces nearly $3 million in related activities, it says.