Commercial and industrial drywall contractor in Scarborough

What we build in Scarborough

Scarborough's commercial work leans institutional and retail more than most of the GTA. Healthcare, education and community facilities sit alongside the Scarborough Town Centre retail node and the industrial areas near Markham Road and Progress Avenue. A lot of it is renovation inside buildings that cannot close.

• Healthcare and clinical spaces, including rated corridors and shaft walls
• School, college and community facility renovations
• Retail and quick service restaurant build-outs
• Office fit-outs and municipal or agency space
• Industrial office pods, washrooms and demising walls
• T-bar and acoustic ceilings, drywall bulkheads and ceilings

Phased work in a building that stays open

A clinic, a school or a shopping centre cannot shut down for the duration of a fit-out. That reality drives the drywall schedule more than the quantities do, and it needs to be priced as phasing rather than absorbed as goodwill.

1. Break the work into phases that each end in a usable, closed up space
2. Hoard each phase properly, with dust control and a sealed transition to the occupied side
3. Confirm which hours are actually workable, and price the after hours portion
4. Keep egress routes and fire separations continuous during the work, not just at the end
5. Plan for the extra mobilizations that phasing creates and put the number in the bid

School and community facility renovations

A large amount of Scarborough institutional drywall happens in schools and community facilities, and almost all of it is compressed into the summer. The building empties in late June and has to be ready for occupancy in late August. That window is the entire project, and it does not move.

• The schedule is fixed at both ends, so float has to come from crew size rather than from calendar
• Material needs to be on site before the window opens, because a delivery delay in July cannot be recovered in August
• Existing construction in older schools is often block or plaster rather than drywall, which changes both demolition and how new work attaches
• Rated corridors have to be restored to a listed assembly before the building can be occupied again
• Any designated substances work has to be complete and cleared before drywall can start, and that sits ahead of us on the critical path

We staff summer institutional work to the window rather than to our usual crew rhythm, and we say at bid stage how many people we intend to put on it. A subcontractor who bids a summer school project at normal crew size is quietly relying on the schedule slipping. On a building that reopens to students on a fixed date, it cannot.

Healthcare and institutional requirements

Clinical and institutional renovation carries requirements that ordinary commercial work does not, and they belong in the tender documents rather than in a conversation after award.

• Infection prevention and control measures, including containment and negative air where required
• Rated corridors and smoke separations that must stay continuous through every phase
• Documented firestopping at every penetration, with the listed detail recorded
• Surfaces specified for cleanability, which usually means a higher finish level and a specific board
• Restricted working hours around patient care or teaching schedules

We build to the listed assembly and document what went in. For the rated scope specifically, see fire-rated assemblies.

Working with us

We work as a subcontractor to general contractors and to property and facility managers directly. Bids are priced from your drawings and list every partition type, the finish level per area, the number of mobilizations carried, and our exclusions.

• Two million dollar commercial general liability, certificate on request
• WSIB coverage in good standing
• Non-union open shop
• Framing, boarding, taping and finishing self performed under one contract