Why?

If you asked my wife, she would be the first to tell you that I was married to the wonderful industry of construction long before her. I am not sure if it was by choice, simply fate, or maybe I was a terrible person in a past life, but here I am almost 30 years in and I can't seam to remove myself. 

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It began in my late teens. I went to work with a friend and his dad, mostly doing office renovations. I did not make a lot of money per hour, but there was no limit to the number of hours, which translated to a pretty decent pay cheque. I quickly learned that even though I was only making $12/hour, I could pull in a big cheque, by myself a nice truck, even my first condo. 

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The money is what got my attention, but that soon turned into a love for building. It excited me to take an old run-down office space, or entire floor of offices, and turn it into a beautiful, modern place for people to work every day. The look on peoples faces always made me proud. You could see how happy the revived space made the tenants. It seemed to renew their desire to come to work.

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It wasn't long before I was running a crew, and then running renovation sites for the same small interior outfit. I learned everything I knew from these guys, and quite frankly, I owe a lot of my "success" to them.

 

If you knew me personally, you would agree that I do not have the ability to enjoy contentment. That said, I needed more, bigger, better! This started my ascent into the world of big construction. I went to a little bit bigger GC and built a couple homes, then a little bigger and built a strip plaza, until I made it to the "big leagues".

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One fateful day I answered my phone and heard that it was someone from PCL HR department. It took me a minute to understand that they were actually calling to speak to me about a job. It was surreal. I never really thought that monster was within my grasps, but here I was talking to a rep from PCL about an interview. Without getting into too much detail, I got the job as a Superintendent with PCL and worked on some amazing projects. I worked on projects up to $350,000,000. I met some incredibly brilliant and hard-working people. I learned so much with PCL and met some lifelong friends.

 

Fast forward a couple years and I found myself looking for change. This put me in the head office of EllisDon...yes, the mortal enemy of PCL!

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As much as I absolutely loved working for PCL, and appreciated everything I learned there, when I started with ED I instantly felt at home. It was a match made in heaven as far as I was concerned. I knew this my first day, when Geoff Smith, the CEO of EllisDon, went out of his way to introduce himself to me. That meant the world to me. Not only because I got to meet Geoff, but because he wasn't doing it for PR, or because it was part of the process, he introduced himself because he wanted to, because he is just that guy.​

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That was when the seed was planted for me to find a platform where I could learn more about the people that make it all happen and the people in construction could tell their stories. 

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Since then, my story has taken some twists and turns, leading me up tp today. I currently run a little construction access company called Summit Access Solutions Inc. with my business partner and best friend Dave Darling. He will be the victim of one of my interviews if I have my way. You guys will love him.

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Well, the time has come...let's open up the gates and give you a glimpse behind the construction fence.

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Kris