b'TCA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING2021 Board of DirectorsJeff Murva (Chair)J. Murva Consulting Ltd. Ed Applebaum (Vice Chair)Montgomery Sisam Architects Inc. Brian Endacott (Immediate Past Chair) EllisDon CorporationGlenn AckerleyWeirFoulds LLP Greg Brokenshire Alberici Constructors153 RD Mark CasalettoConstructConnect Chris FillinghamStantec Architecture Christine Kellowan TCA ANNUAL MEETING Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLPClint Kissoon FENAL Estimating ServicesA CHALLENGING YEAR FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Craig LesurfGillam GroupTim MeanaWalsh Group By Warren Heeley Romeo Milano Safetech Environmental LimitedTHE TORONTO CONSTRUCTIONWars and the wars in Korea and Robert Riopelle ASSOCIATION held its 153rdVietnam combined. Smith and Long Limited annual general meeting on February 18.Albert Salvatore More than 140 members and guestsDue to lockdowns and emergencySprint Mechanical Inc. participated as the association reviewedassistance for Canadian business and the 2020 year and celebrated thethe public, 2020 was an economicMatt StaintonStainton Group Inc.annual Best of the Best Awards (BOTB)catastrophe with the federal deficit aloneDawn Tattle to deserving TCA members (see BOTBgrowing from $28 billion to more thanDawn Tattle Enterprises Ltd.article on pg. 14). For the first time in$400 billion. Though construction wasCatherine Willson TCAs lengthy history, the annual generaleventually seen as an essential service,Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLPmeeting was held virtually because of thethe industry in Ontario struggled through ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. a number of challenges, including theJohn Mollenhauer recovery of delayed payments (whichToronto Construction Association In his remarks at the opening of theare still being resolved) and the ongoing meeting, TCA president and CEO Johnadded COVID costs that are eroding Mollenhauer highlighted the extraordinarycompanies retained earnings. year experienced by the industry in 2019, one of the busiest on record.Despite these conditions, Mollenhauer2021 Between the $13 billion in permits, thenoted, I am proud of the way contractorsExecutive Committeerecord low interest and vacancy rates inperformed at such a high level in areas the commercial and residential sector,such as health and safety under veryJeff Murva (Chair) and the more than 120 cranes in usedifficult circumstances. 2021 will beJ. Murva Consulting Ltd.throughout the GTA, there was nothing butanother tough year for our industry andEd Applebaum (Vice Chair) optimism as 2019 turned into 2020. programs such as wage subsidies fromMontgomery Sisam Architects Inc.the federal government will be neededAnd then COVID arrived. to help our members into the post- Brian Endacott (Immediate Past Chair)pandemic era. EllisDon CorporationIn late January 2020, the first COVID-19Glenn AckerleyWeirFoulds LLPvirus case was reported in Canada. AsBrian Endacott of EllisDon, TCAs 2020Christine Kellowan the months progressed, Canada facedchairman, took the attending membersGoldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLPsomething it had not experienced forthrough reports on the operational and more than 100 years: a pandemic.financial health of the association, bothCraig LesurfGillam GroupThis event turned the constructionof which were quite positive despite theRomeo MilanoSafetech industry on its head as governmentspandemic. He thanked the 2020 TCAEnvironmental Limitedscrambled to control infection rates. ToBoard of Directors and the TCA staff forAlbert Salvatore put the pandemic in perspective, notedtheir tireless work in a challenging yearSprint Mechanical Inc.Mollenhauer, more people have diedduring his term. He also congratulated from COVID in the U.S. to date than thevolunteers and staff who worked hard atJohn MollenhauerTCAcountry lost in the First and Second Worldmaintaining the valuable services offered BUILDERSDIGEST Quarter 1 202121'