started off, they employed approximately 20-to30 employees seasonally. Today, they maintain roughly 60-to-70 employees, and they plan to grow to about 80-to-90 by the end of the year. Tarren credits that growth to the company’s diversification and their commitment to keeping their employees busy – over the past couple years, they have started taking on a wider variety of projects and staying active 12 months out of the year. These days, the company’s workload is extremely diverse. According to Tarren, they still do lots of mass excavation, gravel pit stripping, gravel pit reclamation, and landfill cells. At the same time, they are also diversifying into the renewable energy sector, which means doing excavation for solar farms and wind farms. They are also looking to step further into the new development space, which is particularly active – the City of Edmonton is continually expanding, and Camrose is pretty close, so there are a lot of industrial and residential developments coming up that Road to Rail hopes to be involved in. Historically, Road to Rail has generated a lot of their work from cold calling and public tenders. In the past couple years, however, they have seen more and more organic growth from word of mouth and repeat clients. Tarren believes that growing loyalty is a credit to the value they provide: “Our goal is to work with a client once and just have them keep calling again and again because we’re offering a superior product for a lot of value,” he says. “We’re not necessary the cheapest contractor out there, but our goal is to give the client the best bang for their buck. I think that’s a big part of why clients enjoy working with us.” THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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