Westcor enjoying busy year building in province
Renert School addition is firm’s biggest project
Despite the economic downturn, many building contractors are busy and construction crews are working on some fine projects.
One of the companies with confidence in its future is Westcor Construction, which besides enjoying an active year has taken time to rebrand itself.
One of its biggest projects is a 90,000-square foot-addition to the Renert School, two and half times the size of the existing innovative accredited school in northwest Calgary.
Renert’s current building was designed to be as non-institutional as possible to reflect the progressive educational vision of the school, a hybrid school and community centre featuring studio spaces for art, dance, martial arts, music and yoga.
The five-storey addition will enable Renert to address the overwhelming demand for admissions in Grades 7 to 12. The extension of the current building will include a community theatre, martial arts studio, gym and weight room, state-of-the-art science labs, a teaching kitchen and a rooftop telescope for the school’s space research program.
Construction has begun and students will be welcomed in the fall of 2018.
Westcor has been in business in this city since 2003, established as a company focused on delivering mid-market commercial, institutional and industrial construction projects. Staying within that range has proven successful, growing to a staff of 60 led by president and CEO Bob Robinson.
Robinson has 36 years of experience in the industry and has become a well-respected leader among Calgary’s general contractor and construction management firms. He has served as past chair of the Alberta Construction Association, past-president of both the Calgary Construction Association and the Calgary General Contractors Association, as well as a director of the Canadian Construction Association.
His leadership team includes Andrew Morgan, vice-president operations, Glen Clark, vicepresident business development, and chief estimator Brad Hammond. They are busy here in the city and rural Alberta with projects in hospitals in Canmore, Didsbury and Red Deer, and the recently completed J.C. Charyk School in Hannah. And in Black Diamond, Westcor is building a production facility and tasting/ tap room for Hard Knox Brewery for Millarville siblings Pamela and Cody Lykin.
In Calgary, the company is working on extensive renovations to the Brenda Strafford Foundation’s Bow View Manor.
It is about to begin renovations to the plaza areas on the south and east sides of the iconic downtown Harry Hays building.
Robinson and his executive team have been working on a new strategic vision over the past year and a hired Forward Level to rebrand Westcor. After consulting clients and staff, the company now has a new logo and new website with the promise of “Building A Better World” — for clients, staff and the community.