wouldn’t be anywhere with-
out our partners in the tech-
nology industry… we take
their technology and bundle
it up in a way that our clients
would want to use.” The team
is completing the much antici-
pated venture by March of this
year.
The establishment takes all
precautions in order to bat-
tle Canada’s harsh climate.
“We’ve been slowly getting
ourselves up north in mining
communities, providing water
and wastewater systems there
as well, and we’re working
with different companies that
are building their technology
based more around the harsh
winter conditions up north,”
says Deane. “The design-build
concept alone is not a techni-
cal challenge but a policy and
perception challenge allowing
companies to take over the re-
sponsibility of operating water
and waste water systems. It’s
always been done by the mu-
nicipality with which they’re
in or local government, but
nowadays with lack of money
and a lot of infrastructure re-
quired it’s a challenge for us to
get people to understand the
private industry is no different
than the public sector. We’re
burdened with the same re-
quirements of environmen-
tal regulations and the same
business problems… It’s no
different other than we look at
it like a business, and a mu-
nicipality looks at it as a right.
But sometimes the right runs
out of money if it’s not man-
aged properly.”
The company has re-
cently expanded into the Unit-
ed States, and when asked
how the Canadian and Ameri-
can markets compare, Deane
replies “In Canada, the engi-
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