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HC Group

Shoring, Deep Foundations, Shotcrete, and Ground Improvement solutions across Canada

We are Canada’s Structural Shotcrete Specialists and Sustainability Experts

HC Matcon Inc., located in Ayr, Ontario, was founded in 2001 as a full-service excavation, shoring and foundation specialty contractor. In our quest for innovation, we investigated the shotcrete system that was new to Western Canada. Working with Canada’s top engineering firms, we introduced shotcrete to Ontario, which provides an innovative method of building foundations that offer reduced costs through time, material and labour savings.

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Founded in 2001, HC Group is a full-service geotechnical excavation, shoring and  foundations contractor that specializes in sustainable foundations, including Shotcrete and Structural Shotcrete.

The HC Group is comprised of HC Matcon Inc(Ontario) , Ottawa Division – HCM Micropile, a division of HC Matcon Inc., and HCM Contractors Inc – (Western Canada).

Our offerings include a variety of foundation and shoring techniques- including caissons, caisson walls, shotcrete, soldier piles and lagging, footing tie down anchors, rock and soil anchors, helical and micropiles, and underpinning.

Our values are Teamwork, Value Through Innovation, Service and Sustainability, all of which our comprised within our motto:

 Innovation in Foundations

We believe in our global stewardship and responsible management of  resources.

We actively  manage our consumption of resources, and seek ways to reduce our impact on the earth.

We believe sustainability is everyone’s responsibility and we require every HC Group employee to make sustainability central to every business decision.  We believe in the integration of  environmental, economic and social sustainability practices.

Senior management of HC Group continually reappraises work practices and develops new technologies to reduce consumption of resources.  As such, you will find our workers using eco-friendly products and reducing the amount of concrete, wood and steel used in foundations based on  stamped engineering drawings that eliminate the practice of “overdesign” that leads to excessive use of resources.

HC Group Projects

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St. Thomas Courthouse

St. Thomas Courthouse

Alternate Methods Stop Running Sands HCM was retained to design, supply and install a complete shoring system to facilitate construction of the new St. Thomas Court House for EllisDon. Construction

Brantford General Hospital

Brantford General Hospital This innovative project represents the first use of shotcrete shoring in place of caisson walls against a building in Ontario. Caisson walls have typically been utilized duw

University of Toronto Faculty of Law

TTC Steels Launch Shaft The expansion of the Faculty of Law building at the University of Toronto incorporated the addition of another storey to the existing building. The increased loading

Oshawa Mall

Oshawa Mall The Oshawa Mall expansion was a large project that required several foundation and shoring services. HCM met the needs of the contractor by providing both tied back and

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