// COMPANY DOSSIER
0812 Building Solutions Inc.
Design-led commercial and residential general contracting and project management firm with a design/build approach, partnering with architects, designers and developers from the earliest project stages.
📍 Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaEst. 2012✓ 100% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM 0812 Building Solutions Inc.
“to answer it shortly these are the projects that don't make money let's just be honest”
“so what about safety wise like as far as safety standards”
“I think people think of polar bears like the Coca-Cola commercial”
“it's minus 62 when we got off the plane with the wind chill”
“as far as the Churchill build went it was modeled after the inner hollow of a ship”
“so it's a local architect that started a art gallery in downtown Winnipeg”
“you're just looking out this buggy at this windswept incredibly harsh landscape”
“I think maybe we're the only ones stupid enough to agree to do it”
“you know you've got a lot of revenue with your typical commercial residential”
// LESSONS FROM 0812 Building Solutions Inc.
When working in remote or extreme-cold sites, prefabricate aggressively and ship redundant components — assume some will fail in transit or not fit on site.
Hard-quoting evolving or experimental projects is a trap; open-book cost-plus preserves the relationship and reflects reality when scope is fluid.
Some projects should be taken on at cost or below as intentional marketing investments — they generate referrals and portfolio credibility that more than offset the margin sacrifice.
In extreme cold, air-powered tools and battery tools are the first failure points; plan tool redundancy and a heated break space to cycle tools back to operating temperature.
Design for disassembly from the start on temporary structures: reusable pipe-and-clamp scaffolding goes back to regular job sites; sacrificial elements are planned in, not accidents.
Owners with design or architecture backgrounds attract unusual, design-led projects that keep talent engaged — the 'wicked and weird' pipeline is a recruitment and retention tool.
// ON THE RECORD WITH
RAW:almond
Works with
Seven-year ongoing client relationship for annual pop-up restaurant builds; open-book cost arrangement
Architecture (design background)
Trained at
Marco Gallo and partner both have architecture/design backgrounds — drives unusual-project pipeline
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Little Sister Coffee Maker
CompletedDesign/build general contractor
Recognized with the 2019 Commerce Design People's Choice Award per the firm's own Company page.
Crossroads Garden Shed
CompletedDesign/build general contractor
Cited as a 2018 Arkitizer Award winner on the firm's Company page; also appears in the project portfolio.
Cheese Mongers
CompletedDesign/build general contractor
Cited as a 2018 Commerce Design People's Choice Award winner on the firm's Company page.
Crossroads Garden Set
CompletedDesign/build general contractor
Cited as 2016 Architecture Master Prize Platinum winner on the firm's Company page.
Fools & Horses (Broadway)
CompletedDesign/build general contractor
Cited as a 2016 Commerce Design People's Choice Award winner on the firm's Company page; listed as 'Fools & Horses Broadway' in the portfolio.
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
Federally incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act on 2012-10-23 (Corporation No. 8332487), currently active, with Nicholas Hall and Marco Gallo as the named directors.
SOURCE ▸The firm states it brings 'over 10 years' experience' and frames its approach as design/build, forging relationships with architects, designers, developers and distributors so a design/build mentality is employed from the early stages of every project.
SOURCE ▸Won the 2016 Architecture Master Prize (Platinum) for the Crossroads Garden Set per the firm's Company page.
SOURCE ▸Building like this in Atlantic Canada?
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