“Stan Higgins was the one who promoted the idea from
the start,” said Routhier.
The site is the future home of 10 two-storey side-by-side
units and is one of Habitat’s larger sites. The golden pile
serves as the foundation for a flagpole and marks the start of
a new tradition for Habitat. Upon completion of this project
the flagpole and the golden pile will be uninstalled and relocated
to other large Habitat job sites.
“It’s an absolute great honour because there’s over 100
dealers like myself across Canada, and I get the honour to put
in the millionth pile,” said Higgins an eight-year veteran with
Postech and owner of Postech Winnipeg.
Established in 1995 as Les Fondations Vistech, 24 years
may seem like a long time to reach this milestone, especially
when considering some deep foundations projects require
thousands of piles for completion.
“We’re the guys that fill the gap in residential, we’ll come
out for the three or four pile job. So, there’s some companies
out there that have done a lot of piles, but we’ve done
hundreds of thousands of sites to get to a million, which
makes us really, sort of unique,” said Higgins at the special
installation ceremony.
With the successful road trip over, thoughts turn to what’s
next for Postech.
“In 2020, it’s going to be a special year for us because we’ll
be celebrating our 25th anniversary. Honestly, we’re very
proud of that, and our slogan is, ‘Starting off on a solid foundation.’
So now we feel the first 25 years were very exciting and we’ve
become a national brand, and now we think we can start the
next 25 years on a solid foundation by expanding our market.
We feel like we could become a company in North America.
Our business model is ready to grow outside of our Canadian
markets,” said Routhier.
When asked if the RV will make the cross-country drive
next year Routhier said, “We like to see ourselves as being
very creative. And for me, although it was very exciting, I
think we’ve done it and we need to be creative again. Already
we’re working on something very ‘out there,’ something different
for next season.”
Be sure to visit www.postechpiles.com/roadtrip for all of
the blog and video posts from the 2019 Postech Road Trip
and to learn more about Postech Screw Piles.
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