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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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Dufferin Jog Elimination

Dufferin Jog Elimination This project involved the extension of Duffering Street under an existing CN rail line and through the abutment wall of a century old CN bridge at Queen
The Fuse at Evolution

The Fuse at Evolution

The Fuse at Evolution Following years of planning by the City of Calgary, construction on the anticipated East Village Development has started. The proud owners of the first land deal
Upper House Condominiums - Caisson Wall Piles and Lagging

Upper House Condominiums

Upper House Condominiums HCM completed the shoring for the eight storey Upper House Condominium project which required a 12m deep excavation for two levels of underground parking. A tied-back shoring
Guelph Civic Administration Complex

Guelph Civic Administration Complex

Complex Shoring Requires Innovative Design Work on this site involved the supply and installation of caissons, underpinning, rock anchors, as well as both traditional soldier pile and lagging and shotcrete

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