Star Power Our fourth annual CCR Awards highlights industry’s leading women
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n an industry driving fast-forward into its efforts to diversify the scope of its leadership mantles, there is a contingent of women leaders stepping into the spotlight. In our fourth annual CCR Awards, Commercial Construction & Renovation shines a spotlight on a handful of them. These leaders sit at the front of the industry’s path forward, each of them serving critical roles in the industry, their company and their communities. Each was nominated by their peers.
Julie Bonamy Racine CEO CertainTeed Canada Inc.
Rebecca Thomas CEO T&T Construction Management Group Inc.
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Heading into 2024, Julie Bonamy Racine will be picking up where she left off as CertainTeed Canada's first female CEO. The Canadian building products subsidiary of Saint-Gobain includes 27 manufacturing locations and 2,200-plus employees across the country. Taking over for former CEO Richard Juggery, Julie continues to lead the company to build its environmental footprint, including overseeing North America's first zero-carbon wallboard plant. Joining the company in 2017, she has had stints as Group Vice President, Strategy & Planning in Paris and most recently as CEO of Saint-Gobain Malaysia, working in Singapore and Indonesia. Earlier in her career, Julie worked in the public sector, including as adviser for the budget and digital sector for the Office of the French Minister for the Economy. The road ahead includes continuing to lay the foundation creating a framework for support by helping strengthen the company's strong networks and support systems. Since taking over CertainTeed Canada, Julie has poured her energy into understanding opportunities and challenges from the employees in its manufacturing sites, and receiving advice and support from fellow leaders throughout the worldwide company. The goal is to create a path for the next generation of leaders—men and women—in the industry.
These are new days for the T&T Construction Management Group. Rebranding from T&T Construction of Central Fla. Inc., the new charge is headed by CEO Rebecca Thomas, who assumed the role of the 25-plus year company serving clients in Florida and the Caribbean this year. Rebecca’s is leading the expansion, restructuring and rebranding the now women-owned business into a Women’s Business Enterprise by WBENC certification. WBENC offers support, opportunities and tools to help women succeed. There are unique business opportunities for women-owned organizations as well. All these reasons led us to pursue and achieve the WBEC. The T&T leadership team is spearheaded by Thomas and her husband, Jason, who serves as COO. Under their joint vision, T&T Construction Management Group will continue to specialize in a number of projects, including distribution centers and warehousing, entertainment, K-12 and higher education, mixed-use, retail and office space. Rebecca’s vision is to continue to build a foundation that will feed its future success as it moves into the next phase of growth and evolution. Since 1995, the company has developed a wide range of state-ofthe-art design and build solutions, including tilt-wall systems.
COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION & RENOVATION — ISSUE 11/12, 2023