When Manhal Alkanakri, Abdulhafed Almagri, Ibrahim Alhariri and Rachid Anker fled war-torn Syria in 2016 to start a new life in Canada, they knew it wouldn’t be easy. They had to learn English. They had to find places to live. And they had to find jobs that would support their ...

Muslims across the world began the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan, on Wednesday May 16th or May 17th by refraining from bad habits and eating or drinking during daylight hours. Depending on your geographical location in the world, this may lead to a number of challenges. It is ...

Mental Health at The Workplace Workplaces have traditionally looked at workplace health from a strictly occupational health and safety perspective. To have a complete or comprehensive approach, workplaces should also consider measures that may impact the mental health of workers. Workplaces have traditionally looked at workplace health from a strictly occupational ...

Last week our industry, our province and our country comes together to remember the workers who have lost their lives, or been severely injured or disabled while on the job. To put in perspective, in Canada 904 workers died from workplace-related injuries or illnesses, and another 240,682 suffered a ...

Park Derochie Partners With HAKI As Their Primary Contractor And Distributor For The HAKI Universal Scaffolding System In North America Park Derochie is pleased to announce its new partnership with leading global scaffolding manufacturer HAKI. Effective immediately Park Derochie will be the primary contracting partner and distributor in North America ...

We are pleased to announce that PD Group of Companies Inc. won the Best Managed award in 2016 & 2017 and requalified in 2018.  PD Group of Companies is honoured to be a “Returning” company and would like to congratulate all other returning companies as well as the new, gold ...

Park Derochie Inc. is pleased to announce the creation of a Canada Wide Bridge Division based out of its Edmonton Offices effective February 1, 2018.     With the increasing activities in bridge restoration & refurbishment across the country, coupled with the complexity associated with this work, the creation of a specialized ...

Happy Monday   Let’s start the week off with safety. We are almost one month into 2018 and we want to recognize the HSE successes that Park Derochie achieved in 2017.  Our safety department sent out these remarkable statistics last week that we want to share!    Safety Statistics   Question: How many ...

Jeff Granberg, Co-Owner and CEO of PD Group of Companies Inc., was recently named the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Prairies, in the Real Estate and Construction division. Coming as no surprise to anyone who has had the opportunity to work with him, he was also honored, being ...

WE HAVE A WINNER:  Nine individuals correctly guessed that  the weight of the largest single piece of steel fireproofed in the  Park Derochie shop for Syncrude's UE-1 project was 110,000 lbs! Roughly the weight of NINE elephants.   Of those, ARCHIE STAINTON was randomly chosen to win  golf for two at The Broadmoor Public Golf Course.    To ...