Organizational Environment Analysis: Canadian Construction Industry

This report delves into the industrial branch of the Canadian construction industry, examining its task environment. It begins with an introduction defining industrial construction and its scope. The core of the report analyzes the key forces within the industry's task environment, including suppliers such as Lafarge Canada Inc. and Columbia Lafarge, distributors like CCC Chemicals and MSC Industrial Supply, and a profile of a typical customer, Christina Gomes. The report also identifies key competitors in the Canadian market, such as Gillam Group and Bronte Construction. The analysis emphasizes the importance of these forces in shaping the construction industry's stability and growth, concluding with a summary of the industry's significance to the Canadian economy. The report is based on the assignment brief provided, which required an analysis of the organizational environment, specifically the task environment, within the Canadian construction industry, including suppliers, distributors, customers, and competitors.

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Discussion:..................................................................................................................................................2
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Introduction:
This paper is focused on the industrial branch of the construction industry in Canada and provides
a list of typical industry suppliers, distributors, key competitors, and creates a profile of an ideal
customer.
Construction industry defines the branch of manufacturing and trading established for the constructing,
maintaining, and renovating structures. This consist of drilling and hard rock mines and the constructors
mainly includes with the construction of farm, industrial, residential, commercial. The contractor of heavy
construction industry mostly included highways and streets, sewers, bridges, railroads, flood control
assignments, irrigation assignments, and marine construction. The constructor of Special Trade
Construction Industry involves work on mobile homes, and both the building and nonbuilding
assignments. The construction industry goes through the unique activity by resource and commodity-
based assignment, which is essential to reestablish and develop Canada’s ageing public infrastructure.
Discussion:
Construction is the most demanding industry that manages to establish its stability and also grow
when other businesses are faced with economic problems (Ashworth & Perera, 2018). The typical
suppliers of the construction industry in Canada are Lafarge Canada Inc., Columbia Lafarge, Brock White
Construction Materials, LGI Industrial Construction Suppliers, Bird Construction Co. A right supplier
will provide new goods for companies in the construction industry. They must reach its particular
marketplaces like adhesives, sealants, roofing, mastics, caulks, renders, mortars, stuccos, and
concrete(Hosseini et al., 2015). They have to fulfil the demand for chemical resolutions like biocides,
solvents, defoamers, resins, curing agents, clays, fillers, rheology modifiers and extenders. Good quality
chemical products will ensure that assignments can be ended speedily as well as long-lasting effects. The
common distributors of construction industry in Canada are CCC Chemicals, otherwise known as Canada
Colors, Chemicals Limited, MSC Industrial Supply, The United Distribution Group, Vallen Distribution.

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The distributors are own firms; they mainly consist of trades and support people. Also manufacturers’
agents, who hold the sales agent role and work as per commission basis, and industrial distributors take
their place of the products in the market they trade and take responsibility as the partner with
manufacturers. But selling an industrial product via distributors is unsafe and also tricky. After fixing it
with independent distributors, then construct with substantial inventory, and filling the pipeline of the
distributors, after one year the organization finds that the product is retailing unwell (Yusof et al., 2014).
Name: Christina Gomes
Age: 35
Description: A young professionals, looking for a 3 BHK flat in
an apartment with best amenities.
Motivated By: Always think quality. Deliver on time. Keep the
dialogue open. Talk in layman’s terms. Offer free services.
Preferred Marketing Channels: Email, Facebook.
Competitors consist of both the existing competitors and every potential competitor—businesses
that compete with others with conspiracy in the absence (Oesterreich & Teuteberg, 2016). In Canada, the
top five competitors ( from the year 2011 to 2016) of this industry are Gillam Group ( Profit 500: No.1,
Growth: 29,256%, revenue: $50-100 million), Bronte Construction ( Profit 500: No. 10, Growth: 5,752%,
revenue: $10-20 million), J-CON Civil ( Profit 500: No. 54, Growth: 1,346%, revenue: $2-5 million,
QuickContractors.Com ( Profit 500: No. 77, growth: 951%, revenue: $10-20 million and R3
Deconstruction & Abatement ( Profit 500: No.88, growth: 813%, revenue: $10-20 million).
Conclusion:
It concluded that the construction industry is one of the essential sectors of the whole Canadian
economy and also offered the perfect barometer for how powerful or weak the domestic economy in the

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present century. Canada is nominated as one of the world’s broadly markets for commercial,
infrastructure and residential development.

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References:
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Oesterreich, T. D., & Teuteberg, F. (2016). Understanding the implications of digitisation and automation
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Yusof, N. A., Mustafa Kamal, E., Kong-Seng, L., & Iranmanesh, M. (2014). Are innovations being
created or adopted in the construction industry? Exploring innovation in the construction
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