November 22, 2007
Bird Construction Company Limited
Head Office:
Ste 206, 5405 Eglinton Ave W
Toronto ON M9C 5K6
Tel: 416-620-7122
Fax: 416-620-1516
Email: investor.relations@bird.ca
Website: www.bird.ca
Date of Incorporation: 1930
Key Personnel: P.A. Charette, Chairman & CEO; P.R. Raboud, President & COO; M.D. Martin, Chief Financial Officer & Assistant Secretary
Branch Offices:
Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton Industrial,
Vancouver
Bird Management Limited
Calgary: 106, 12143 – 40th St SE, Calgary, AB T2Z 4E6
Bird Construction (U.S.A.) Inc.
Seattle: 371 NE Gilman Blvd., Ste 260, Issaquah, WA 98027
Nature of Ownership: Public
Principal Owners: Publicly-traded Income Trust
West Volume: $421,858,000
East Volume: $228,000,000
Areas of Expertise: General Contractor, Design/Build, Construction Management, Commercial, Retail, Renovation & Restoration, Residential/Multi-Tenant, Institutional, Industrial, Light Industrial, Manufacturing.
Economic Forecast: Economic conditions in 2008 are expected to be favourable in most operating areas, with particular strength in Alberta and British Columbia.
Corporate Profile: H.R. Bird founded Bird construction in 1920 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and incorporated in 1930. Over the years, the company’s operations have expanded to include Western Canada, Ontario, and the Northern U.S., with offices in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Seattle. Bird is a public company, with the employees of the Company, being the largest unitholder group, and is one of Canada’s leading general contractors providing a full range of construction services. In 2006 Bird Construction completed $533 million in construction projects across Canada and the U.S.A. in the institutional, commercial, industrial and high-rise residential areas of the marketplace.
Major Projects: Sodium Hypochlorite & Chemical Buildings, Winnipeg, MB; University of Manitoba, Indoor Soccer Complex, Winnipeg, MB; East District Police Station, Winnipeg, MB; Winnipeg Humane Society, Winnipeg, MB; West End Pollution Control Centre, Winnipeg, MB; Airdrie Recreation Centre, Airdrie, Alberta; South Beach Casino Hotel, Scanterbury, MB; Emergency Operations Control Centre, Calgary, AB; Leon’s Addition/Renovation, Calgary, AB; Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, AB; Royal Alberta Museum Renewal, Edmonton, AB; Highvale Maintenance Shop Expansion, Duffield, AB; Shell Jack Pine Waste Potable Water Treatment, Ft. McMurray, AB; Ft. McMurray Water Reclamation Facility, Ft. McMurray, AB;
Mine Services Facilities Buildings, Ft. McMurray, AB; Wal-Mart, South Surrey, Surrey, BC; Vancouver Transit Centre Facility, Vancouver, BC; University of British Columbia, Winter Sports Complex, Vancouver, BC; Simon Fraser University, Arts & Social Sciences Complex, Phases 1 & 2, Vancouver, BC.
—updated November, 2007
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