Team Profiles: Angus Erskine
Date: Jun 04, 2013
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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
Read More → Team Profiles: Brian Mitchell
Date: May 09, 2013
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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
Read More → Team Profiles: Simon Clements
Date: Apr 11, 2013
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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
Read More → Team Profiles: Steevo Moore
Date: Mar 28, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Ricardo Salcedo
Date: Mar 14, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Tom Premier
Date: Mar 07, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Lindsay Langille
Date: Feb 21, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Robert Emberley
Date: Feb 14, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Scott Billard
Date: Feb 07, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Adam Smith
Date: Jan 31, 2013
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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
Read More → Team profiles: Mike Burns
Date: Jan 24, 2013
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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?
Read More → Shop dogs
Date: Jan 14, 2013
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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
Read More → Yes it’s cold: Thursday’s field notes
Date: Jan 10, 2013
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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
Read More → In response to Steve Maxwell’s “When trades are devalued”
Date: Dec 10, 2012
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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
Read More → Photo roundup from Kingsburg
Date: Dec 06, 2012
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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
Read More → Wow. What a week.
Date: Oct 04, 2012
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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
Read More → MacGyver Moments
Date: Sep 26, 2012
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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
Read More → Meanwhile -On James Street…
Date: Sep 17, 2012
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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
Read More → Sawhorses
Date: Sep 04, 2012
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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
Read More → We get dirty
Date: Aug 28, 2012
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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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