COMPANY PROFILE
Up and
Coming
Backed by one of the
country’s premier
construction and
infrastructure
development companies,
Aecon Foundations is
expanding its role in
Canada’s piling industry
By Mark Halsall
Aecon Foundations has been
installing piles for almost 50
years. But it wasn’t until 2013
that the Calgary-based company
began to ramp up its deep foundation
business in a really big way.
According to Lars Richter, vicepresident
of piling and foundations for
Aecon Foundations, that’s when the
company made a strong commitment
to boosting its presence in the piling
and shoring systems sectors.
“Before that, Aecon did a limited
amount of driven piles for bridge foundation
projects and the like,” he said.
As Richter notes, the summer of
2013 saw Aecon Foundations gain
access to the wide array of internal
foundation projects of its parent companies
– projects that in previous
years would have been largely subcontracted
out to external businesses.
Aecon Foundations is a division
of Aecon Infrastructure, which in
turn is part of the Aecon Group, one
of Canada’s largest and most diverse
construction and infrastructure development
companies.
Aecon and its predecessor companies
have helped to construct such
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