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that take the relationships from concept all the way to
commissioning.
The numbers indicate the success of the “in it for the
long haul” approach.
More than 40 HH Angus employees have at least 20
years of service time with the company, and more than
70 percent of the firm’s overall business portfolio is
comprised of repeat clients – including Cadillac Fair-
view, the Toronto Dominion Bank, the Royal Bank of
Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Hospital for
Sick Children, the University Hospital Network, St. Mi-
chael’s Hospital, Queen’s University in Kingston and
the University of Toronto.
“We will celebrate 100 years in business (in 1919).
You only get to that milestone through satisfied cli-
ents, a stable workforce and consistently embracing
new technology and approaches to our industry,” said
Kevin O’Neill, director of the company’s Commercial
Division. “For example, in the firm’s early days, we
were among the first to engineer electrical systems
for buildings when electricity use was still new, and air
conditioning was almost unheard of.
“And we were early adopters of sustainable design for
buildings, long before it became more common.”
O’Neill said his division is largely geared toward any
projects not under the company’s high-tech and
healthcare umbrellas, or those endeavors not specifi-
cally aimed at a building’s central plant functions.
That means “any buildings that have people” are in
the division’s wheelhouse, including tenant renova-
tions, schools, universities, offices, courthouses,
sporting fields and facilities, and cultural centers. Also
falling under the commercial purview, he said, is the
company’s lighting design team, as well as its VT (Ver-
tical Transportation) team – which handles aspects of
projects that involve elevators, escalators and moving
sidewalks.
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
HH Angus & Associates Limited
WHAT:
Private consulting engineering firm
founded in 1919
WHERE:
Corporate headquarters in Toronto, Ontario
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