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Billy Coles,  Mike MacQuaid,
Robert Cummings,  Larry Woolridge
The Foremen

With their more than 50 years combined experience at MacLean Construction, you can rest assured your project will be in good hands. The culture, the estimators proven approach and effective office administration all play their part, but at the heart of MacLean’s success are the experienced, “roll up your sleeves” foremen.

In rounding these foremen up to discuss their individual projects, it quickly became apparent that they were being kept them from their favorite pastime. As each of the four rolled though the office, they were accommodating and polite, but obviously keen to get back to their work. That keen sense of ownership was very evident. The projects were not the estimators, the project managers or Mike’s, they very clearly belonged to the foremen.

Foreman Mike MacQuaid speaks of the challenges they faced in building the spectacular Andrews of Stratford in mid winter, including pitching in with the shovel every morning to clear the snow from the job site. Billy Coles is keen to share his experiences using the exclusive to MacLean’s prefabricated steel Robertson Building System in the construction of the Prince County Highway Depot. Robert Cummings comments on the modern mechanical, environmental and energy saving aspects of the new Cornwall Town Hall. Foreman Larry Woolridge is the foreman who worked on the MacLean Construction’s own new complex. The building is designed and built to showcase the company’s work and it truly is an impressive building. Now you might think that a new project (your own company office) with such state of the art features as geothermal heating and advanced P200 insulation would get a construction guy excited. And although with some prompting Larry did speak to us about the heat pump system, the red cedar entrance, the stone work and the top of the line materials, he pointedly expressed that this building was just another job and that they are all done to the best of his abilities. What Larry was really expressing was that all his projects are special to him and their own company office was no more important than his other projects. Keith MacLean may be retired, but there is a strong sense that he’s still in the building.