#EllisDon
Thank you to our partners Aecon, AtkinsRéalis, Indigenous Community Outreach, Suslop, OPG, Bird Construction, LiUNA!, Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Arcadis and EllisDon.
September 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Feds award to EllisDon, realize they evaluated wrong, rescind back to Pomerleau, and then compensate EllisDon for lost profits.

I feel like there's loose parallels to CUPW: forcing workers back erodes their bargaining power and leverage. I doubt they'll be compensated though.
Federal government department mismanaged procurement process, must pay construction co., FCA says
The compensation reimburses EllisDon Corporation for lost profits
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December 13, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Owned by….
Prairie Link Rail Partnership?
(Prairie Link = EllisDon + AECOM & partner Centricity)
January 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Provision raises $7 million USD to build AI co-pilots for pre-construction estimates Toronto startup wants to help firms like EllisDon “gut check” pre-construction work. The post Provision rais...

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Provision raises $7 million USD to build AI co-pilots for pre-construction estimates
Provision wants to help pre-construction professionals move faster and minimize errors with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). > Provision aims to build “the most accurate co-pilot for construction estimators.” The Toronto-based construction technology startup has secured $7 million USD ($9.8 million CAD) in seed funding to develop its AI co-pilot, which helps construction estimators find information and identify risks and opportunities based on project documents. The round, which closed in August, was led by Cercano Management with support from fellow new backer Jamie McDonald of Black & McDonald, as well as existing investors Y Combinator and One Way Ventures. It brings Provision’s total funding to $8.7 million USD. Provision was founded in 2022 by CEO Luigi La Corte and CTO Brendan Ardagh, a pair of entrepreneurs with combined experience in construction, tech, and investing. La Corte, the son of an immigrant general contractor, worked in civil engineering with Arup and infrastructure investing through Plenary Group. Ardagh—a quantity surveyor by training—formerly held the CTO role at human resources software startup Jem HR and co-founded student accommodation marketplace DigsConnect. Provision claims that billions of dollars are lost every year due to errors that could have been caught at the pre-construction stage of projects, from design mistakes to scope misunderstanding and inaccurate estimates. With Provision, La Corte and Ardagh aim to build “the most accurate co-pilot for construction estimators,” who must determine project costs by reviewing huge sets of complex documents. Provision aims to make those estimators’ lives easier by helping them answer targeted questions about documents quickly and accurately. “We originally started to help reduce risk across projects, but we found that estimators had the biggest incentive to get this right during their process,” La Corte told BetaKit. “Originally we simply pointed out risks, and now we help pre-construction teams reduce the time it takes to prepare estimates.” La Corte said that the company is developing its own models for specialized tasks that existing large language models are incapable of addressing effectively. The startup is betting that its domain-specific AI products—which include Project Review, Chat Agent, and Scope Agent—are better suited to tackling this challenge than more general-purpose chatbots. **RELATED:****Construction tech startup Mechasys lays out blueprint to scale with $23-million Series A** In the construction industry, the cost of getting things wrong during the planning phase can be high, as severe or repeated miscalculations can lead to legal problems and business failures. While Provision believes AI models can boost the productivity of construction estimators, there is also the risk of AI-generated responses presenting false or misleading information as fact, a problem that appears to be increasing with recent, more complex models. “Given the high risk of miscalculation, we’re investing heavily in generating data sets to get up to 99 percent accuracy,” La Corte said. “This is very hard, since there are no datasets publicly available and building them is meticulous.” La Corte said Provision’s long-term plan is to help companies “gut check any pre-construction work with multiple agents that work alongside estimators to ensure no mistakes are made.” Provision’s traction has helped it attract investors. The company is already working with large construction firms in Europe and Canada like Acciona, Bird Construction, Colas, EllisDon, and PCL Construction, and it says it has reviewed $100 billion worth of projects after growing nearly 10x last year to more than $1 million in annual recurring revenue. The startup plans to add eight more employees to its 10-person team in the near future. _Feature image courtesy_ _Freepik_ _._
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October 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Let’s be clear about this: the p3 model has destroyed competition in the market and is bad for ON businesses; as of 2021 (last time I pulled data): PCL and EllisDon had built 76% of all ON hospitals. On this, they teamed up and were the only bidder. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 1/
Cost, design of new Civic hospital campus still being hammered out | CBC News
The final cost and design of the brand new hospital and trauma centre are still to be determined, one year after Ellis Don and PCL submitted the only bid.
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February 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Yesterday I was driving by Dart. Sportsplex & saw a wonderful sight. An old lady pulling one of those wheeled carts was being escorted past the driveway by an @EllisDon employee. He made sure she got along safely. We need more of this. Well done to that guy and @EllisDon
December 3, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Ho assolutamente bisogno del ventrillo (buongiorno)!
The Ventrilo
only 6d from Ellisdon & Son (1936) (via magazine advertisement)
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October 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Geoff Smith, chair of the board of EllisDon, says this trade war is Canada's economic Battle of Britain.The odds look steep. But he thinks we can win this.

macleans.ca/politics/how...
How to Fight Back - Macleans.ca
Canada should not bend before a bully. The case for hitting the U.S. where it hurts.
macleans.ca
March 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Next we have Andrew Ellisdon from Monash Uni @monashuniversity.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Two construction science specialists from EllisDon say Canada’s homegrown mass timber construction sector is creating its own momentum, with the cost gap between the product and traditional materials continuing to decrease and innovators learning new best practices with every successful project.
Mass timber innovation continues as sector expands - Daily Commercial News
Two construction science specialists from EllisDon say Canada’s homegrown mass timber construction sector is creating its own momentum, with the cost gap between the product and traditional materials ...
canada.constructconnect.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The other issue is that fines are kept artificially low in order to not scare away construction contractors. This is obviously nonsense. If EllisDon can legally kill someone and only pay $600,000 then what on earth are we doing? And this isn’t the first time they’ve killed someone either.
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
EllisDon is one of the biggest contractors in the country. They got burned bad on ECLRT and aren't interested in doing transit P3s anymore
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
🚀 Explore career paths at the Trades & Technology Career Fair on Feb 10, 2026 at KPU Tech Campus, Cloverdale - Sponsored by EllisDon New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre!

🕙 10am - 1pm

Note: This event is geared towards Trades students.
February 1, 2026 at 2:00 AM
🚀 Explore career paths at the Trades & Technology Career Fair on Feb 10, 2026, at KPU Tech Campus, Cloverdale - Sponsored by EllisDon New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre!

🕙 10am - 1pm
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Note: This event is geared towards Trades students.
February 1, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Woops! @LorneProteins can't read their own schedule. It is in fact Jian Payandeh, Andrew Ellisdon @Dr_Ellisdon , Ashleigh Davey @DrAshleighDavey and Allison Kraus!
May 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🚀 Explore career paths at the Trades & Technology Career Fair, sponsored by EllisDon New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre, on Feb 10, 2026 at KPU Tech Campus, Cloverdale.

🕙 10am - 1pm

Note: This event is geared towards Trades students.
January 23, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Of course not because it’s EllisDon the Bombardier of construction companies (ex Eglinton LRT, Gordie Howe Bridge, Skydome and Grimsby Hospital all very late and way over budget).
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
EllisDon civil team expands into Atlantic Canada with bridge project

https://www.byteseu.com/589192/

HALIFAX — The EllisDon Civil East team has expanded civil construction operations into Atlantic Canada after winning the Musquodoboit Harbour Bridge Replacement Project contract. This is the …
EllisDon civil team expands into Atlantic Canada with bridge project
HALIFAX — The EllisDon Civil East team has expanded civil construction operations into Atlantic Canada after winning the Musquodoboit Harbour Bridge Replacement Project contract. This is the first major heavy civil project for EllisDon in the region, states a release from the company. “I’m very proud of the Atlantic and Civil East teams whose collaboration was key to successfully securing this milestone project, said Derek Love, senior vice-president and area manager with EllisDon’s Civil Division, in a statement. The Musquodoboit Harbour Bridge is located 40 kilometres east of Halifax on Highway Trunk 7 (Marine Drive) over the Musquodoboit River. The
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December 24, 2024 at 12:13 PM
The construction portion is, yep. Crosslinx is a 26-member consortium including EllisDon, Aecon, etc.

The Fords' making it their primary target since Crackpipe Robby became Mayor and sticking their greasy little fingers in the pie hasn't helped.
March 23, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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March 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thank any other premier. He also challenged me on Ontario Place asking why doug would do what I was saying. This was the same day EllisDon sneaked in and chopped down 860 trees at doug's behest!!! I sent video. Are we living in different universes?
January 25, 2025 at 9:52 AM
📜 LYCHOS is a human hybrid of a plant-like PIN transporter and a GPCR

🧑‍🔬 Charles Bayly-Jones, Christopher J. Lupton, Michelle L. Halls, Andrew M. Ellisdon, et al.

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LYCHOS is a human hybrid of a plant-like PIN transporter and a GPCR - Nature
Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the human lysosomal transmembrane protein LYCHOS show that it comprises a transporter-like domain fused to a G-protein-coupled receptor, and that the transporter...
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October 4, 2024 at 6:47 AM
I’m a bit perplexed. Alberta announces a goal to have a pipeline to tidewater but with no private company’s confirmed to jump on the Canadian govt major projects list. Yet EllisDon has a much further advanced HSR project between Edmonton and Calgary and nothing. Frustrating. #yeg #yyc #hsr
October 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
4/8 But the "charm offensive" wasn't just political.

Carney brought a heavyweight delegation: BlackBerry, CAE, EllisDon, and pension funds managing over $2 trillion.

They are choreographing a new level of engagement to tap into the Gulf's trillions.
November 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Le coût final et la conception du nouveau campus Civic de l'Hôpital d'Ottawa sont encore à l'étude, un an après que les firmes EllisDon et PCL ont présenté la seule soumission pour le projet. Aucun contrat de construction n'a encore été signé. #ottpoli
Le projet du nouveau campus Civic est encore en attente
Le coût final et la conception du nouveau campus Civic de l'Hôpital d'Ottawa sont encore en cours d'élaboration. Il pourrait coûter plus de 2,6 milliards de $.
ici.radio-canada.ca
February 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM