Our Sponsors
PLATINUM
Enbridge Gas is Canada’s largest natural gas storage, transmission and distribution company based in Ontario, with 2023 marking its 175th anniversary of serving customers. The distribution business provides safe, affordable, reliable energy to about 3.9 million customers and is leading the transition to a clean energy future through net-zero emissions targets and investments in innovative low-carbon energy solutions. The storage and transmission business offers a variety of storage and transportation services to customers at the Dawn Hub, the largest integrated underground storage facility in Canada and one of the largest in North America. Enbridge Gas is owned by Enbridge (ENB), a Canadian-based leader in energy transportation and distribution.
GOLD
We pride ourselves on working with our clients and stakeholders to achieve the project goals. With our collaborative efforts and experience, we have been able to complete projects all across Canada ranging from tens of thousands to tens of millions of dollars.
The backbone of our company is the installation of private and public utility networks. Our grassroots lie in the power (hydro utility) and telecommunications sectors; however, over the years we have grown to cover a wider range of utilities including water, sewer, railroad utilities, site servicing and renewable energy. Within these sectors, work is completed employing a wide range of installation techniques, although we specialize in projects involving trenchless construction such as horizontal directional drilling, plowing, guided boring and/or pipe bursting.
Hydro One is Ontario’s largest electricity transmission and distribution service provider. We distribute electricity across Ontario to nearly 1.5 million predominantly rural customers, or approximately 26% of the total number of customers in Ontario. In November 2015, we became a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (H).
Our history dates back over 110 years to 1906 when the Ontario Legislature passed the Power Commission Act establishing the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (HEPC). Since then, we have worked to energize life for people and communities, helping Ontarians live a better and brighter future.
Ontario One Call is a service-oriented regulator of the locate industry and is the communication link between those wanting to dig and underground infrastructure owners who are required to provide locates.
At Rogers, we’re proud to continue the legacy that began more than 60 years ago. With our dedicated team, we’re committed to connecting Canadians and delivering the best from coast to coast.
With one of North America’s largest energy infrastructure portfolios, no one powers day-to-day life like TC Energy. We share technical, stakeholder and operating expertise across all of our operations.
Our Energy Solutions aim to leverage the size and scale of our energy network and trading platform to be the most trusted and reliable source of low carbon energy for the North American industrial, oil and natural gas sectors.
SILVER
Aecon is well-positioned in the Canadian marketplace as an industry leader in the development and construction of infrastructure. We have a roster of ongoing major projects here and abroad, record backlog diversified across multiple sectors and duration, and a robust pipeline of future project pursuits. We are in a strong market position, but we are ultimately aiming higher.
The Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA!) – is the most progressive, aggressive and fastest growing union of construction workers, waste management workers, show service workers and healthcare workers in Canada.
LiUNA is an International Union, with members in both Canada and the United States. Across the continent, we are over half a million strong. Although we run our own affairs in Canada, we are proud to be an important part of one of North America’s oldest and most powerful unions. Our long tradition of cross-border cooperation continues to benefit members in both countries. In Canada, LiUNA has over 100 000 proud members and retirees, united through collective bargaining agreements which help earn superior pay, better benefits, better pensions, and more opportunities for better lives for our families.
Working men and women who carry a LiUNA membership card live in every community across Canada and come from every part of the world.
LiUNA! We Build Communities!
OEC serves the infrastructure, energy, renewable generation, electricity, and gas distribution sectors. With over 2,000 employees, insightful and reliable energy and infrastructure solutions are provided to OEC’s clients across Canada and beyond.
Driven to Lead, Innovate and Commit to Excellence, OEC partners with clients to create value. The group of companies deliver end-to-end solutions from conception and design to engineering, construction and comprehensive field services.
To find out about OEC, visit oecorp.ca
We’ve changed our name but not our commitment to provide great service. Why the name change? Simply, to reflect that Ontario Excavac has evolved and grown to supply end-to-end services for all your underground utility project needs. From digging to disposal, excavation to restoration, we’ve got you covered. With just one call, our team of experts will get your project completed safely, on time and on budget. Our convenient locations include: GTA, Hamilton, Kitchener, Barrie, and Oshawa. www.oeservices.ca
The OSWCA is a champion of environmental protection and best practices in safety and water system management. We have represented the sewer and watermain construction industry in Ontario since 1971. We represent over 750 companies across Ontario including contractors, manufacturers, distributors, and consulting engineers. The OSWCA membership is structured by ten local associations, two pipe producers and one independent association. Collectively, we perform over $1 billion a year in capital projects to ensure clean safe drinking water and environmentally responsible wastewater treatment and disposal.
BRONZE
Alectra Inc., through its subsidiary Alectra Utilities Corporation, serves approximately one million homes and businesses across an 1,800 square kilometre service territory.
Our goal is to be the energy ally that our customers expect us to be. We are equipped to discover the possibilities of energy conservation and new technologies for enhancing the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Discover your new energy. Shape the future. Discover the possibilities.
ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXRAORDINARY RESULTS. We pride ourselves on our work ethic and the talent and skills of our people. That’s how we’ve evolved from a sewer and watermain contractor to one of Canada’s largest construction companies, with an expertise to meet every need.
Cogeco Connexion is the second largest cable operator in Ontario and Québec in terms of the number of basic cable service customers served. It provides its residential and small business customers with Internet, video and telephony services through its two-way broadband cable networks. Cogeco Communications Inc. is a communications corporation and is the 8th largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America operating in Canada under the Cogeco Connexion brand name in Québec and Ontario, and in the United States through its subsidiary Breezeline in 12 states along the East Coast, from Maine to Florida. Cogeco Communications Inc.’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).
The Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) regulates and promotes electrical safety in Ontario. In fact, we’re working towards an Ontario where people can live, work and play safe from electrical harm. To do this we; anticipate, identify and target the leading causes of electrical-related harm, verify compliance with Part VIII of the Electricity Act and its associated regulations, promote awareness, education and training to make the public aware of potential electrical harms, work with Licensed Electrical Contractors, utilities, manufacturers, safety partners and other stakeholders to improve electrical safety in Ontario.
Hydro Ottawa Holding Inc. (Hydro Ottawa) is a private company wholly owned by the City of Ottawa. It is overseen by an independent Board of Directors consisting of the President and Chief Executive Officer and 10 members appointed by City Council. The core businesses of the Corporation are electricity distribution, renewable energy generation, and energy and utility services.
The Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA) is Ontario’s trusted health and safety resource. Our goal is to improve the lives of Ontario workers. We provide the resources and training that control and eliminate safety hazards in work environments involving high-risk activities.
At IHSA we have always maintained a standard of excellence. We are proud of our role in helping to make Ontario one of the safest places in the world to work.
NPL Canada continues to set the standard for best-in-class service and safety within the utility contracting industry, ensuring customer success is always our primary focus. Since 1994, our “alliance” approach to building customer partnerships has reduced construction costs by eliminating duplication and wasted effort.
Headquartered in Vaughan, Ontario, NPL Canada is a full-service provider that delivers a complete range of construction and maintenance services to the utility industry across Canada.
We are passionate about associations and have been providing solutions exclusively to the association marketplace for more than 50 years. Daily conversations and frequent surveys of members, suppliers, and association staff help us keep our finger on the pulse of the community and the challenges they face. In this unique time, it is important that association partners like Naylor, work harder than ever to find new ways to ensure the longevity of your missions today and into the future.
More than just understanding and serving associations, we participate in the community. We sit on association boards, speak at events, and volunteer. Enabling associations to reach their potential is our passion.
Plains Midstream Canada (PMC) is an industry-leading midstream services provider based in Calgary, Alberta. For more than 20 years, we have safely delivered exceptional results to customers through our reliable network of pipelines, trucks and rail transportation. PMC operates strategically located storage, processing and fractionation facilities, offering midstream and marketing services for crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) products across North America.
Plains Midstream Canada ULC is an indirect subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (Plains All American), a publicly-traded master limited partnership headquartered in Houston, Texas. Its common units are traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “PAA”.
Robert B. Somerville has been proudly connecting Canada’s communities for over 60 years. We install and maintain the infrastructure that makes energy flow.
Robert B. Somerville provides a comprehensive and fully integrated range of infrastructure services across Canada. We plan, build and maintain oil and gas pipelines, power and other utilities systems and related facilities. Renewable and sustainable energy projects are an important and growing part of our business.
For over 20 years, Super Sucker has been Ontario’s leading provider in vacuum excavation and support services. We are focused on safety and deliver complete solutions with the most technologically advanced and diverse fleet of vacuum excavation trucks, coring units, slingers, and concrete trucks. This fleet and our highly trained crews allow us to provide cost-saving options to both small and large infrastructure and utility projects throughout the province.
Toronto Hydro owns and operates an electricity distribution system that delivers electricity to approximately 790,000 customers in the city of Toronto. We serve the largest city in Canada and distribute approximately 18 per cent of the electricity consumed in the province of Ontario.
We’re committed to delivering excellent customer service, providing a safe and reliable supply of electricity, and delivering long-term value to the City of Toronto.
Trans-Northern Pipelines Inc. (TNPI) operates pipelines regulated by the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) to safely transport the refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, aviation, and heating fuel) used by Canadian businesses and consumers every day. These pipelines connect refineries in Nanticoke, Ont., and Montreal to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), with lateral pipelines to Ottawa as well as to Pearson International Airport and Pierre-Elliot Trudeau International Airport.
We are committed to operating in a safe and environmentally responsible manner to protect the public, the environment, and the pipelines. That protection requires a commitment to damage prevention, which is a shared responsibility. Attending the ORCGA Damage Prevention Symposium and other key networking events provides TNPI with excellent opportunities for education and for building relationships with the communities where we operate, and where our employees live and work.
The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) promotes and enforces public safety. It’s our vision to be a valued authority for a safer Ontario.
Your Solution For Inspection And Field Services. We provide specialized and certified inspection and field services for the Pipeline and Utility Industry.
Vermeer Canada is a full-service Vermeer Industrial equipment dealer specializing in equipment sales, parts, servicing and SUPPORT. We are proud to extend our coast to coast coverage through 12 strategically located full service locations.
At all of our locations we provide new & previously owned Vermeer equipment sales support, expertly trained in-shop and mobile service technicians and high-quality, stocked parts.
We are here to support you in helping to make the most of your business opportunities, to increase productivity and decrease down time. Our customer service commitment begins with the Vermeer Canada Promise, a complete after sales parts and service program designed to keep you going 24/7.
Vivax-Metrotech is committed to meet and exceed our customers’ needs with prompt, professional service, providing quality innovative products at competitive prices! Our in-house service center can perform complete service and calibration. We fix what we sell, not just replace parts, saving you time and money.