92 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 10 notes project manager Sina Saedi. “We work hand-in-hand with the trades and after successful projects, we’ll expand the business with them; we’ll try to get them involved in different projects one after another.” “Our prices are secured during the tender process by reliable subcontractors with which we have good relations,” adds General Manager Greg Chitilian. “We can pick up the phone and discuss the prices with them.” Constructing the job In order to succeed on any given project once it is secured is the name of the construction game and Artin Chitilian points out that “You have to make sure that you have the correct subcontractors that can perform, the right employees, and the right project managers and superintendents. It’s important that the people you employ are experienced in the work that they’re doing, that they do a good job, and that they’re proud of their achievements. That’s how we look at the industry. We’re proud of the people working for us.” Having that powerful formula in place is what has allowed Torcom Construction’s relatively small staff of about a dozen managers, accountants, and estimators, to succeed in the ICI (Industrial, Commercial, Institutional) sector for close to 40 years. “Schools are our niche,” says chief estimator Vache Madian. “We also do some community centers; we’ve renovated libraries across the GTA; old age homes, as well. We’ve done work with TTC (Toronto Transit Commission), upgrading some of their stations to barrier-free. Downtown, we worked for the CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) Commerce Court.” Commerce Court, an office building complex on King and Bay Streets in Toronto’s financial district. The four-building complex is a mix of Art
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