OUTSTANDING SAFETY CULTURE AWARD
BDA INC.
TCA’s Outstanding Safety Culture Award 
underscores the industry’s top priority: 
ensuring everyone who enters a jobsite 
makes it home without injury. Many TCA 
members take this mission to heart, 
including BDA Inc., which stood out this 
year for its organization-wide health and 
safety strategies.
“We’ve had a long-standing, genuine 
commitment to creating a workplace 
where safety isn’t just a rule, it’s part 
of who we are,” the team emphasizes. 
“Safety is built into every level of the 
business, and the results speak  
for themselves.”
Certainly, health and safety are a strategic 
focus throughout BDA. It is also a shared 
responsibility that is reinforced through 
training and mentorship programs, daily 
safety briefings, a network of safety 
management systems and top-down 
leadership commitment. Moreover, says 
Lewis Cowan, BDA’s president, BDA’s 
adoption of the COR program in 2016 
has been a pillar of the company’s H&S 
strategy: “Month after month, new initiatives 
were added, building our program so that 
in 2018 we could achieve COR certification. 
From there, it has truly become part of 
everyday life at BDA.”
BDA has received the Ontario General 
Contractors Association (OGCA) Milestone 
Award for the past several years, most 
recently for achieving two million hours 
without a LTI. As for this year’s recognition 
by the TCA, Cowan says winning the 
Outstanding Safety Culture Award has 
been a huge honour for the team, “a 
credit to all the hard work the BDA staff 
have put in day in and day out, including 
site staff and BDA’s H&S team, who have 
shown daily diligence in ensuring the 
safety of all workers.”
GREEN BUILDING CULTURE AWARD
STEELCON GROUP OF COMPANIES
Steelcon joined TCA’s award showcase this year for its work 
in “redefining carbon leadership” through the creation of its 
Environmental Product Declaration for SIN Beam.
SIN Beam is a proprietary steel beam composed of sinusoidal 
corrugated web that dramatically enhances load bearing 
efficiency while minimizing material usage. Compared to 
traditional wide flange beams, SIN Beam reduced the amount of 
steel required in a structure by up to 30 per cent. 
Taking sustainability a step further, Steelcon created an 
Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for SIN Beam to 
measure its environmental impacts. “At the time, Steelcon didn’t 
have the in-house expertise, so we reached out to a carbon 
consultant who was able to expertly guide us through the highly 
technical and complex process of gathering the required data 
and creating the Life Cycle Assessment and Plant-Specific Type 
III EPD,” says the team.
Steelcon used insights from its SIN Beam EPD to source lower 
embodied carbon steel without compromising performance or 
cost. In doing so, it achieved a 50-per-cent reduction in Global 
Warming Potential. “Our journey with SIN Beam is not just about 
bringing an innovative product to the North American market,” 
Steelcon adds. “It is about pioneering a systemic change in 
how structural steel is designed, manufactured and utilized to 
significantly lower the carbon footprint of construction projects.”
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