MONCRIEF CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

Company Overview

Moncrief Construction Limited (MCL) was founded in 1967 by Harold and Margaret Moncrief.MCL has grown from a small hydro and telephone line company to become one of Northwestern Ontario’s largest and most diversified construction companies. In 2022, MCL’s annual sales exceeded $87million.

MCL’s continuing commitment to integrity, dependability and quality workmanship hasallowed us to build strong relationships with major contractors, provincial and municipal government departments, First Nations, and with private clients in the communications, energy, and mining sectors.

Company Divisions

MCL is a general contractor specializing in power and communications line construction, industrial electrical work, heavy civil construction, and aggregate production.

Our electrical and powerlines divisions construct substations, remote transmission lines, and light the communities and airports of the North. We take great pride in our ability to overcome any obstacles, often employing helicopters and tracked all-terrain vehicles where access is limited. Our powerline and communications services include:

High Tension

Transmission Lines

Electrical Substation and Switching Station Construction

Right-Of-Way Clearing

Business, Residential, and Community Distribution Lines

Rock Boring Pole Holes up to 36-inch in Diameter

Telephone Lines

Submarine Cables

Fibre Optic Cables

Cathodic Protection for Natural Gas Pipelines

Airport Electrical Upgrades

Municipal Electrical Services

Subcontractor Services

Directional Drilling

Our civil division builds roads, bridges, causeways, lagoons, pipelines, and dams. Our aggregate division drills, blasts, and crushes Canadian Shield rock for the roads and industries of the region. Our transportation, mechanical, and administrative personnel provide support to our crews and equipment. MCL completes our own equipment and truck repairs and maintainsan inventory of replacement parts. MCL is licensed as a Vehicle Inspection Station for issuance of Safeties and Annual Inspection Certificates for Heavy Duty Trucks and trailers. MCL has Heavy Equipment Licensed Mechanics, Vehicle Licensed Mechanics, and a Welding Shop.

Company Locations

MCL is based out of Kenora, Ontario and operates primarily in Northwestern Ontario and Manitoba, but has completed projects across Canada. MCL main office is at 504 Ninth Street North in Kenora, Ontario. MCL has two equipment yards located North of Kenora. MCL’s satellite construction yards and properties throughout the region provide ideal staging grounds for our wide range of projects. MCL has staging yards in Dryden, Ear Falls,Red Lake, and PickleLake, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Company Equipment

Our years of experience have enabled us to build a fleet of equipment and trained personnel suited to conditions encountered in the Canadian Shield.

Equipment List

Excavators: track and rubber tire excavators from Mini excavator to 850t with specialized attachments: hydraulic thumb mount, flails, bunchers

Rock Drills: hydraulic rock drill, down hole drill, crawler mounted drill

Track Carriers: Nodwells: 240 Double bucket, 240 RBD and 110 Carriers

Puller/Tensioner: Timberland DPT30

Line Trucks: digger derrick, bucket trucks

Line Trailer: hydraulic reel and pole trailers

Compressors: vary in sizes

Portable crushing spreads

Trail Groomer: Sno-Cat with Mogul Master Drive

Loaders: track and wheel loaders buckets ranging in sizes

Dozers: D3-D8 dozers with attachments

Rock Trucks: 25, 30, 40t

Graders: with snow wing and dozer blade

Compactors: smooth drum and foot compacters

Skidders: skidders with rock drill attachments

Portable Crushing plants with jaw and cone crushers, loaders, TeleStackers, screen plants

Line Equipment: bucket and boom trucks

Man lift, boom lift

Forklifts

Vacuum Trucks: Industrial Combination Unit, excavator vacuum

Tractors: vary in size

Dump Trucks: triaxle dump trucks, belly dumps, end dumps

Trucks: tipper truck, cube van, 1 ton, pickups

Float trailers up to 7 axles

Service trucks, cube vans, fleet of pickups, ATVs, snowmachines, water craft, airplanes

Site office trailers, storage trailers, well-site camp units

MCL has a full time Health and Safety Manager, as well as designated health and safety officers assigned to the larger projects.

COR certified in Ontario and Manitoba. Members of the following safety prequalification programs:

ISNetworld since 2009. Clients include Hydro One, Ontario Power Generation, Union/ Spectra Gas, Weyerhaueser, TransCanada Pipelines, Ledcor

ERail Safe who maintain safety standards and programs for CP Rail and CN Rail.

Cognibox. Clients include Bell, New Gold Inc, Glencore North American Closed Sites, Resolute Regional Supplier

Avetta. Clients include Valard Construction LP.

ComplyWorks. Clients include Forbes Bros Ltd, Shaw Communications Inc.

Our Safety program meets or exceeds the requirements of our major customers.

Electrical Safety Authority – Authorized Contractor

MCL is a Rated Contractor with the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario

Registered with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities with certified, registered trainers on staff for the Surface Miner Common Core program.

Major Clients

Our clients include private and public utilities, the mining and power generation industries, and private customers such as homeowners and cottage-owners. Our major clients are Advance Towers, Bell Aliant, Bell Mobility, Hydro One, Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba Hydro International, Valard Constructuion Ltd, Synergy North, Tbay Tel, Safeline Utility Services, Shaw Cable, Spectra/Union Gas, Wes Tower Communications, TransCanada Pipeline, Ledcor, CP Rail, CN Rail, Weyerhaueser, Domtar, DST, Evolution Mining (formly Goldcorp Canada Ltd.), Rubicon Mine, Lac des Iles Mine Ltd. (North American Palladium), Mattabi Mine (Glencore), Lafarge Canada, New Gold Inc (Rainy River project), Manitoba Infrastructure, Ministry of Transportationof Ontario, Ministry of Natural

Resources, Nav Can, Bird Construction, Ontario Realty Corporation, PCL Constructors Canada, Pritchard Industrial, Public Works Canada, plus numerous engineering firms, small businesses and private clients.

Experience

Resources, Nav Can, Bird Construction, Ontario Realty Corporation, PCL Constructors Canada, Pritchard Industrial, Public Works Canada, plus numerous engineering firms, small businesses and private clients.

KEY PERSONNEL

Our staff includes Journeyman Linemen and Apprentices, Master Electricians and Journeyman, Professional Engineers, Qualified Project Managers. Qualified Equipment Operators, experienced Aggregate production crews, AZ and DZ Licenced Drivers, Qualified Supervisors, Licenced Mechanics, Qualified Trainers and experienced labourers.

Overview

Moncrief Construction Limited aims to develop mutually beneficial relations with Indigenous communities close to, or potentially affected by, our operations. Our intent is to promote the understanding of, and sensitivity to, Indigenous peoples and the issues important to them. We are committed to provide a consistent, thorough approach to consultation and engagement with all First Nation communities affected by our operations. MCL intends to develop these relationships through:

Priority hiring of local community members

Priority utilization of local equipment and materials

Sponsorship of educational and training programs

Formation of Limited Partnership & Joint Venture Agreements

Supporting First Nation community initiatives

Recruitment

MCL is committed to indigenous recruitment, recognizing the many skills and talents indigenous professionals possess. MCL favours hiring locally on all our projects and typically recruits as many local people as are available. MCL recruits in the following ways:

Job Fair – MCL arranges for an on-site/ virtual eventto gather applications and conduct interview sessions. Events are advertised on all available mediums to reach the maximum amount of band members.

Designated First Nation Representative – MCL coordinates with a designated representative from the communityto pass out information about available positions and gather resumes from all interested persons.

Online advertising – MCL posts available positions online via Indeed, Facebook or the company website where the job application can be completed

Local Office – MCL typically has a local office at the project where members of the community can drop off their resumes.