MRB Contracting, team, halifax ns

Team Profiles: Angus Erskine

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What’s your name and job function? Angus Erskine, carpenter. Can you talk about your building trade background? I first got an interest in high school shop class. I
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MRB Contracting, team profile, Halifax Nova Scotia, builders, custom homes

Team Profiles: Brian Mitchell

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What’s your name and job function? Brian Mitchell, Carpenter Can you talk about your building trade background? I started my experience in the building industry bui
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MRB Contracting, Halifax Nova Scotia, home builders, project management

Team Profiles: Simon Clements

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What’s your name and job function? Simon Clements – Project manager Can you talk about your building trade background? I have worked various jobs in both resi
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MRB Contracting, Halifax Nova Scotia, team, craftsmanship

Team Profiles: Steevo Moore

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What is your name and job function? My name is Steevo Moore, I am a project foreman at MRB. Can you talk about your building trade background? I have been working in the
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MRB Contracting, Halifax Nova Scotia

Team profiles: Ricardo Salcedo

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What’s your name and job function? Ricardo Salcedo. Carpenter and web guy. Can you talk about your building trade background? Over the years I’ve had a few sh
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MRB Contracting, Halifax NS

Team profiles: Tom Premier

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What’s your name and job function? Tom Premier, Cabinetmaker Can you talk about your building trade background: In 2001 I started an apprenticeship at a custom wood
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MRB Contracting, Halifax Nova Scotia, Lindsay

Team profiles: Lindsay Langille

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What’s your name and job function? Lindsay Langille, Operations Manager Can you talk about your building trade background? I grew up around construction my whole li
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MRB Contracting, team,

Team profiles: Robert Emberley

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What’s your name and job function? Rob Emberley – Carpenter Can you talk about your building trade background? I attended the NSCC for carpentry from 2009 to
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Team profiles: Scott Billard

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What’s your name and job function? Scott Billard, Project Foreman Can you talk about your building trade background? After helping family and friends with odd proje
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MRB Contracting, Halifax Nova Scotia, Adam Smith

Team profiles: Adam Smith

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What’s your name and job function? Adam Smith, Project Foreman Can you talk about your building trade background? I have always built stuff for as long as I can rem
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MRB Contracting, Halifax Nova Scotia, Mike Burns

Team profiles: Mike Burns

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What’s your name and job function? Mike Burns, MRB president, business development, and lead project estimator. Can you talk about your building trade background?
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MRB Contracting, shop dogs, working dogs, halifax

Shop dogs

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Wikipedia definition for a working dog: A working dog is a canine working animal, i.e., a type of dog that is not merely a pet but learns and performs tasks to assist and
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MRB Contracting, Halifax, renovations, VaproShield, Keel Agencies

Yes it’s cold: Thursday’s field notes

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It’s true. Last week was really cold. This week has been warmer and yet it’s still below freezing most days. With insulated coveralls and thermal gear it̵
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MRB Contracting, Halifax, NS

In response to Steve Maxwell’s “When trades are devalued”

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Passion for craftsmanship is not a relic of the past. MRB’s team of young builders is proof of this fact. Last week Steve Maxwell, a widely syndicated home improvem
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MRB Contracting, KIngsburg, Nova Scotia, Modern Architecture

Photo roundup from Kingsburg

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We’ve been working high and low this week. From finishing up framing the second story of Kingsburg 2, to starting the cladding on Kingsburg 1, things are moving alo
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MRB Woodshop

Wow. What a week.

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What a great week we’ve had. From North End Halifax, to Halifax’s West End, and down to Kingsburg, the team has been making great strides. Andrew and Ricardo
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MRB Contracting, custom fabrication, Halifax NS, team,

MacGyver Moments

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Rob needed to make an octagon from 10mm rebar stock for a big concrete pier.   He started by creating a diagram.   Then he channeled MacGyver, and with role of
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MRB Wood shop, MRB Contracting, MRB Team

Meanwhile -On James Street…

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We are a diverse lot. And so it is that we have multiple projects on the go. This week while part of the team was down in Kingsburg, some of the boys stayed in Halifax to
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Sawhorses

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The almighty sawhorse. Backbone for umpteen projects. Perhaps you can tell the skill of a craftsman by the sawhorses he builds. Here we have Andrew building 8 in a row fo
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MRB Contracting, demolition, Halifax builders

We get dirty

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Our project manager Smitty doesn’t mind getting dirty on demolition days. He’s a master carpenter and he’ll give you a belly ache from laughter.
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