By Rajitha Sivakumaran
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W
hen friends Joe Di Placito and Ziad Boustany
completed their civil engineering degree from
the University of British Columbia in 2005, they
entered the job market with an enthusiasm to really learn
the trade. Within two years, they made an interesting dis-
covery that would take them down the path to entrepre-
neurship.
Traditionally, many engineering firms didn’t offer construc-
tion management services that sent their people directly
into the field. Armed with civil engineering know-how and
work experience in construction, Di Placito and Boustany
decided to create a business model that would marry the
two disciplines. Out of this emerged RAM Engineering
Ltd in 2007, with staff that are not only knowledgeable
engineers but are construction experts as well.
MARCH 2017
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