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BID Competition First place, Most Professional Bid: Tangent Construction Inc. (Gianluca Caligiuri, Albert Melchior) Second Place, Most Professional Bid: JAKS Consulting Inc. (Kayleigh Dobbin, Scott Chant, Andrew Dingemans, Jordan Spergel) The fact that entrants doubled in one year demonstrates that the Bid Competition is an idea whose time has come. The TCIC has heard from schools across Canada that are interested in participating. At press time, the TCIC was just ramping up its outreach efforts to these and other schools to make the 2011 competition an even bigger success. “The exponential growth of this competition will be enormous,” says John Mollenhauer, TCIC Vice Chancellor and President. “Everyone involved in the construction industry in any way, shape or form is better for having had some estimating experience.” The companies that contributed prize money and provided mentors for competitors take the same view. “We have a real shortage of people in the industry who can do estimates,” says Deborah Fillippe, HR Director of Kenaidan Contracting. “When a student applies and we see that they’ve been in the competition, we see that as a strong plus for that candidate.” This is the kind of hands-on education that construction students can really use: it furthers their education but it also lets them get their feet wet in the real world of bidding and estimating, which is the heart and soul of the industry. “The competition is good hands-on experience,” Mollenhauer says. “When these students go into workforce they’ll have a true feeling for what it’s really like.” Most importantly they’ll experience up-close the apparent paradox that makes construction such a uniquely attractive career: the fact that competition and a spirit of camaraderie can co-exist so well. That spirit shows clearly in the faces of the winning teams. Craig Lesurf, Senior Vice President of Construction Operations, Vanbots, probably sums it up best: “This competition is extremely valuable in shaping our future leaders.” NOTE: A video of the Bid Competition can be viewed at the TCIC website (www.tcic.ca) or at the TCIC’s Student Bid Competition website at www.tcicbidcomp.com. |BD First place, Closest to Budgeted Price: RockSolid (Jonathan Graf, Pascal Uwajeneza, Nick Walden, Kegan Buchanan) 18 | Builders' Digest Quarter 3 2010 Second Place, Closest to Budgeted Price: JAKS Consulting Inc. (Scott Chant, Andrew Dingemans, Kayleigh Dobbin, Jordan Spergel)
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