Find answers to frequent questions about our company, our services and our methodologies.
Please select from our list of questions:
- How is your ownership structured?
- What are your principal areas of operation?
- How long have you been in business?
- What are your market areas?
- What is your area of expertise?
- What is your health & safety policy?
- Do you have portable plants?
- What is your average annual volume of work?
- What is your commitment to sustainable development?
- Are you ISO Certified?
- What is the total number of employees?
- In what areas of Canada do you work?
Q1. How is your ownership structured?
Dufferin Construction is a business unit of St. Lawrence Cement Group, a leading producer and supplier of products and services for the construction industry in Canada and the eastern seaboard of the United States, and a member of the Holcim Group.
Q2. What are your principal areas of operation?
Our Principal area of operation is Southern Ontario. Additionally, we continue to perform work on key projects from coast to coast across Canada.
Q3. How long have you been in business?
Dufferin Construction Company was founded in 1912.
Q4. What are your market areas?
We have developed a wide range of construction services that cater to the following market segments: Heavy Civil Construction, Commercial/Industrial Construction, Municipal Construction and Land Development.
Q5. What is your area of expertise?
With over 90 years of experience in concrete construction services, we have built an unmatched reputation for competency in concrete paving.
We provide our customers with 7 construction services:
Concrete Construction
Asphalt Construction
Excavation and Underground Construction
Structural Construction
Environmental Construction
Design Build Construction
Off Season Construction – Airport Snow Removal
Q6. What is your health & safety policy?
We have developed and implemented an aggressive program of safety enhancement. Our Health & Safety program includes 19 block elements that encompass a wide range of safety issues. Ongoing training, communication and safety reviews are part of our comprehensive safety regime.
The Occupational Health & Safety management system provides risk assessment, safe work procedures and a job observation program.
Q7. Do you have portable plants?
We manage a network of portable concrete and asphalt plants that offer customized and continuous on-site service wherever our customers’ projects may be located across Canada.
Currently we have 2 portable asphalt plants and 3 portable concrete plants.
Q8. What is your average annual volume of work?
Dufferin Construction’s work volume averages between 350 and 400 million CAD in volume of work yearly.
Q9. What is your commitment to sustainable development?
Our commitment to sustainable development is illustrated across every aspect of our operations: from employing the best construction practices and building materials and continuous monitoring of our environmental performance, to recycling and reducing the disposal of rubble and adhering to world class standards in providing a safe and healthy work environment for our employees.
We are ISO 9001:2000 Certified, in concrete paving.
Q11. What is the total number of employees?
Our complement of well-trained employees is our strongest competitive advantage and includes approximately 150 salaried professionals and 700 hourly trade’s people who embody our common values of trust, teamwork, customer focus, cost consciousness and discipline.
Q12. In what areas of Canada do you work?
Dufferin Construction’s completed projects have become a part of the natural landscape of Southern Ontario and across Canada. Working mainly in Southern Ontario, we have also completed airport projects in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Cold Lake and Ottawa.