In writing my final article as the OGCA Chairman, it seemed fitting that I take this opportunity to reflect on some of the successes of the Association during this past year. I am particularly proud of our new collaboration with Robert Ellis and the My Safe Work Foundation. Through our Memorandum of Understanding, the OGCA… Read the full article…

As we move into the summer months ahead, we are all grateful to have made it through one of the harshest winters in recent history. Gone are the frigid temperatures, high winds and heavy snowfall that affect our daily decisions and have an impact on our winter protection costs, additional labour hours, lack of production… Read the full article…

In 1939, Canada was emerging from the Great Depression and preparing to enter the Second World War. That was the same year that a group of Ontario entrepreneurs got together to form a professional associa- tion that has since changed the face of general contracting across Canada. Today, we are all benefitting from that vision.… Read the full article…

Inzola Construction Inc. president Sam Cutruzzola, the incoming chair of the Ontario General Contractors Association (OGCA), got his feet wet in the industry working summers both on-site and in the office at the Brampton, Ont. construction company. He joined Inzola eight months after graduating in 1979. The company is active primarily in the industrial, commercial and institutional… Read the full article…