A recognized leader in the industry, Kenaidan (@kenaidancl) provides general contracting, design build, construction management and preconstruction services to all sectors of the business world.
Founded in 1974 by Ken Smith (Left) and Aidan Flatley (Right) while attending university, work in the early days consisted of snow plowing, interior demolition, fencing and deck building. After graduating, Ken and Aidan decided to keep the company going despite having job offers to work in their fields of study. Growing from two employees to hundreds of employees, and our signature continues to be placed on a myriad of projects of different size and complexity.
Kenaidan runs from two offices: 7080 Derrycrest Drive in Mississauga, Ontario, and 4311 Viking Way, Unit 240, in Richmond, British Columbia. Ken Smith died in 1996, and his name was underlined in the company logo to mark what he built. In 2011 the firm joined the Obayashi group of companies, headquartered in Tokyo, which opened access to larger-scale Canadian work — particularly public-private partnership infrastructure — while Kenaidan continued to operate as an independent entity.
Where the company differs from most general contractors its size is self-performance. Concrete formwork and placement, process mechanical installation, start-up and commissioning, and mechanical and electrical coordination are done in-house rather than sublet, backed by engineers, licensed tradespeople and support staff. That is paired with a project services group handling BIM modelling, geotechnical design, formwork design, 4-D scheduling, surveying and project controls.
Three markets carry most of the portfolio. Transportation is the deepest: three decades of transit work and more than sixty-five projects covering stations, platforms, parking structures, tunnels, track and wayside facilities, bridges over rail and grade separations, along with airport construction delivered under Transport Canada security protocols. Named jobs include West Harbour GO Station, Bloomington GO Station, the Barrie Transit Bus OMF P3, Keele Station Easier Access Phase III and the Bloor-Yonge Capacity Improvements Project.
Heavy civil is the second pillar — slip forming, deep excavations, access shafts and shoring, piling and pier installation, tunnelling, utility relocations, soil management and soil densification. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT western tunnel, the Weston Tunnel Phase 3 grade separation, the George Massey Tunnel, the Duffin Creek water pollution control plant influent pumping station and the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant conveyance project all sit here.
The third is industrial, commercial and institutional building: commercial office and industrial buildings, sports and recreational venues, and education and residence facilities. Kenaidan built recreation centres for both the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and the 2015 Toronto Pan American Games, including the Richmond speed skating oval concrete superstructure and the York University athletic stadium. Several of these achieved LEED certification, and Kenaidan’s own head office is LEED Gold.
Delivery models cover general contracting, design-build and P3, construction management, and preconstruction. On design-build work the company manages permit applications and acquisitions, full design management, construction, start-up and post-construction services, with constructability review running through each stage. Reach the Mississauga office at (905) 670-2660 or Richmond at (604) 270-7670.
