b'MEMBER PROFILE Sprayed fireproofing at Intra Urban project.Sprayed polyurethane foam with thermal barrier at Eagle Creek Studio project.GRAYHAWK INDUSTRIES BY WARREN HEELEY25+ YEARS OF PROTECTING HEALTH AND SAFETYelowna-based SICA memberprepared to take over the business fromcommercial sector, while still retaining K Grayhawk Industries Ltd.their fathers. interest in residential andcelebrated its 25th anniversary inindustrial projects.2020. Founded in 1995 by partners RockyGrayhawk provides specialized services Becker and Greg Carlin, the companyin the spray insulation and hazmatKelowna is currently going through has evolved into a team of more than 30sectors. Their services include asbestosunprecedented growth, which has specialized leaders and team members,remediation and removal, hazardousgenerated a boom in constructionall dedicated to delivering gold standardmaterial removal, fire proofing andparticularly in high-rise commercial and service throughout the B.C. Interior. Inthermal insulation systems, as wellresidential. This change had companies 2016, the company transitioned to the nextas infection control hoarding andlike Grayhawk learning how to work at generation as sons Craig Becker and Brentdemolition. The company services theheights up to 35-40 storeys. Our company Carlin assumed ownership of the B.C. Interior from Prince George all theembraced this new challenge, Carlin says. family business. way through the East Kootenays. We now have mobile equipment and Both Craig and I returned to the familytrained personnel that can work effectively business after exploring careers in otherWhen Grayhawk started, we wereand safely at these heights. We take pride in industries, says Brent Carlin. Each ofon the ground floor of the insulationour tower work. us had worked for the company in theand hazmat business and took on every past; however, neither of us were sure weproject we could manage, says Carlin.Two stand-out high-rise projects for wanted to make it a career. In 2006, afterAs more competitors appeared, weGrayhawk are the 14-storey SOPA Square taking another look [at] the prospectsdecided to specialize in areas of these tworesidential and commercial project and at Grayhawk, we agreed it was the waysectors that were more challenging, wherethe 36- and 29-storey ONE Water Street we wanted [to] go. A 10-year transitionour experience and expertise set us apart.project under construction inprocess then began for the two sons as theyThe company now concentrates on thedowntown Kelowna.34 SOUTHERN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION'