Giving our hard hats a second life You could end up sitting in an Adirondack chair made from our hard hats in our former colours. When we modernized our visual identity in 2021, throwing these helmets or our plastic construction signs away was out of the question.

Instead, we recovered 2,000 kg of helmets, plastic signs, polystyrene foam and other helmet materials. Two local manufacturers transformed all of this into urban furniture, beams, patio flooring and insulation panels.

Girls and construction One Friday afternoon in April, a dozen or so employees from the Greater Toronto Area helped 55 young women plan improvements to the Heart Lake Conservation Park in Ontario. As part of Girls Can Too, a Toronto and Region Conservation Authority program, girls are introduced to and prepared for trades in construction and ecology.

Two weeks in July were enough to develop the plans. Our employees then participated in training sessions and helped plant wild flowers, inventory bumblebees, eliminate invasive species as well as build a natural playground, the roof of a shade structure and three benches.

We re participating in attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We re focusing our actions on these six objectives.

A legacy for nature Over the next five years, we ll provide financial support and offer complementary services to ensure the repair of infrastructure culverts, the main building s stone foundation, roads so that activities can continue in a nature reserve in Quebec, the Lac Portage outfitter.

This project will open the door to other collaborations with the Nature Conservancy of Canada across the country.

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