Ontario Construction News staff writer
Bird Construction Inc. has secured approximately $1.2 billion in new project awards and multi-year agreements, bolstering its industrial maintenance and major capital projects portfolio across Canada.
The awards span large-scale industrial capital investment projects and a series of significant new and renewed multi-year master service agreements with both new and existing clients.
Bird’s industrial maintenance group, operating through its Indigenous limited partnership between Stuart Olson and Infinity Métis Corporation, secured a new five-year recurring revenue master service agreement to deliver complex mechanical services for a long-standing oil and gas client.
According to Bird officials, the award underscores the impact of Bird’s 2024 acquisition of NorCan Electric, which strengthened the company’s electrical and instrumentation capabilities while expanding its mechanical services offering.
The integrated platform has enabled expanded self-perform work and cross-selling opportunities across the client’s regional assets, building on a relationship that spans more than seven decades.
Additional industrial maintenance awards include multiple master service agreement renewals and extensions, including a two-year extension to an existing electrical services agreement, a three-year renewal with expanded scope for an existing customer, a three-year renewal covering mechanical maintenance, turnarounds and project work, and a new three-year mechanical services agreement marking an expansion into the midstream sector.
Through its 2Nations Bird partnership, the company has also been selected to deliver additional scope at BHP’s Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan, one of the largest resource developments currently underway in Canada. The new work includes fabrication, delivery, construction and commissioning of five non-process infrastructure buildings, building on earlier awards for concrete foundations, site services and tailings management.
Bird has also secured a new contract at Dow’s Path2Zero program in Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., expanding on previously announced work at the site. The latest award covers critical process work for the ethane cracking unit, including mechanical, structural, piping, building and insulation scopes, followed by pre-commissioning activities.
“These significant awards across our industrial maintenance and industrial businesses highlight the strength of our industrial work program and reinforce the value of establishing an early presence on large capital investment projects,” president and chief executive officer Teri McKibbon said in a statement.
The awards align with Bird’s 2027 strategic plan and reflect continued investment in self-perform capabilities, long-term client relationships and Indigenous partnerships across the country.
