As in past years, the Top 50 Contractors list brings together the industry’s most progressive and resourceful subcontractors.

When the Italian Kitchen restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia, lost its lease, owner The Glowbal Group decided to move the restaurant down the street, into a site vacated by another restaurant. Monica Jeffers, of Monica Jeffers Interior Design in Squamish, British Columbia, says the new location’s existing design had become “tired and dated and sad.”

The risk/reward factor is someone that bids for work with many unknowns.

From the moment an architect’s pen hits the sketch pad for any construction project, a complex equation begins to take shape to balance performance and aesthetics, pragmatism, and artistry.

I often get out in the field to visit clients and prospects, or to work industry trade shows, and the first question always asked of me is, “How do you find workers these days?”

Lone Sun Builders Inc. is a licensed general contractor that specializes in—and self performs—metal stud framing, gypsum drywall, EIFS, stucco, interior plaster, batt insulation, acoustic ceilings, rough carpentry, FRP, and other interior finishes.

Why pay multiple dues and attend several events when it can all be bundled into one payment and one show? 

With new and emerging technologies and sustainable options, some added benefits can be achieved as well, sweetening the results.