General Contractor
London, Ontario

London's agri-food sector employs more than 7,000 people across 90-plus companies (large-scale meat processing, frozen foods, beverages) fed by the surrounding farm belt and moved by Highways 401 and 402. Terrahills delivers food-grade and cold chain industrial buildings across Southwestern Ontario, and is currently providing planning services for a 20-storey apartment building in London.

Southwestern Ontario's clay plain gives consistent bearing for footings but drains slowly and carries a high water table across much of the region, which drives stormwater design, sub-slab drainage under freezers and the dewatering that services excavation may need. Process wastewater from food plants needs a sewer-use agreement that often runs longer than the building permit.

Serviced industrial land is available in London's Innovation Park and along the 401 in St. Thomas, Woodstock and Ingersoll, with capacity allocated by each municipality.

London is also a healthcare city. Two hospital campuses, a medical school and a growing base of independent clinics make medical office buildings, clinic fit-outs and community health facilities a steady part of commercial construction here. As a healthcare contractor in London, Ontario we build medical office buildings and clinics to Ontario Building Code Part 3 where the occupancy requires it, and we renovate occupied clinics under Infection Control Risk Assessment protocols so the practice keeps running through the work.

The existing building stock matters as much as new construction. Warehouse renovations, industrial building expansions and re-cladding of older steel buildings along the 401 and 402 are a large share of the industrial work in the region, and a land development client in Ilderton, Dorchester or Middlesex Centre needs the same servicing, grading and approvals sequence as a client inside the city.