b'MEMBER PROFILECHANDOS CONSTRUCTIONA PURPOSE-DRIVEN COMPANY WITH A PEOPLE-FIRST PHILOSOPHY BY KELLY PARKERC handos Construction wasAmong the comprehensive list ofNot long after Chandos opened the established in 1980 inservices Chandos provides are generalKelowna office, the pandemic hit, Edmonton. Since then, thecontracting, construction management,and the construction industry had to company has expanded to over 700integrated project delivery and afigure out how to fulfill its contractual employees and eight offices acrossprogressive design-build model.obligations. The pandemic was hard on Canada, including Calgary, RedChandos came to Kelowna in 2016everybody, of course, stresses Lowry, Deer, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa,to explore the market, soon landedbut we actually had some shining Chalk River and Kelowna. Chandosits first contract, and the new officeexamples during the pandemicone is 100-per-cent employee-owned, andopened in 2018. Six years later, theybeing the Canada Games Aquatic the first and largest B Corp-certifiedare still excited about the projects andCentre in Kamloops, where we were in national technical builder in possibilities that the B.C. interior hasthe throes of construction, delivering North America.to offer. the project through integrated project delivery. We were able to have all the Dont look for the surname ChandosOriginally, we were admittedly dippingexperts in the room working as a team, anywhere on the list of C-suiteour toes in, explains Cody Lowry,because in that moment, you need to executives, either. From the get-go, itsdirector of business development forfocus on project outcome and on the founders wanted to create somethingclient values. We were lucky enough to different, even steering away fromChandos in Kelowna, but it has provenhave that rolling, and we came inusing a traditional constructionto be quite successful. Weve had ourunder budget.company name. Instead, the companylearning curves as any growing company is named for Chandos Lake in Ontariosmight, but were feeling really optimisticLowry says hes fond of that project Kawartha Highlandsa place that hadabout where we started, where wevefor more than one reason. More a history in the upbringings of foundersmade it to, and the future seems quiteimportantly, I think that was the Dan OBrian and Don Coyne. promising in the B.C. interior. catalyst to opening the door for 16 SOUTHERN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION'