// COMPANY DOSSIER
Avant Garde Construction and Management Inc.
A construction management, project management and general contracting firm serving the commercial and multi-residential sectors. It delivers projects for developers, tenants and retailers across the Maritime provinces.
📍 Dieppe, New Brunswick, CanadaEst. 2004✓ 100% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM Avant Garde Construction and Management Inc.
“somebody gave me some good advice early on”
“I think construction management is a bit more shared risk”
“we were really lucky that we were working with Crombie early on”
“I would say construction management is a process”
“we have an agreement in place to acquire Rice Contracting”
“in the environment we're in now there are no low numbers”
“I remember submitting one thinking this is feeling your gut”
“what are your thoughts on the labor shortage and the current situation”
“it's gonna be tough to price those though right”
// LESSONS FROM Avant Garde Construction and Management Inc.
Name the 10 clients you want, spend 80% of business development on them, and keep 20% of the door open.
Early-stage contractors should chase opportunities to bid, not handouts — resilience and pestering earn the chance.
Long-tenured superintendents are the culture: they onboard newcomers and recruit by telling people they are treated well.
Construction management works when owner, design team, CM and lender collaborate transparently from project inception.
When one sub bid lands far below the field, qualify the risk and make the client co-own the decision to take it.
Sub-trade pricing validity has collapsed to days, making carried numbers in lump-sum bids a live risk to manage.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Saint John Theatre Company (Sydney Street Courthouse transformation)
In progressConstruction Manager (with EXP Architects as lead consultant)
AGCM is the construction manager; also named in primary press (The East, 2021-01-29). Phase 1 (exterior masonry rehab, roof/window replacement, new electrical/civil services) underway; Phase 2 is a ~6,000 sq ft addition. The SJTC courthouse project received $12M in federal funding (per CBC/Country94, 2024), with restoration work slated to begin fall 2025 (CTV, 2025).
1317 Amirault Street
CompletedConstruction / project management
Listed as a completed project on AGCM's portfolio.
Cornwall Place Apartments
CompletedConstruction / project management
Listed as a completed project on AGCM's portfolio.
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
In August 2023, AGCM entered a strategic partnership with developer Quest Capital to provide in-house construction/project-management for Quest's multi-residential development pipeline (~3,000 developable units) across the Greater Moncton-to-Halifax corridor.
SOURCE ▸AGCM has been operating since 2004, serving the Maritime provinces; its principals cite over 60 years of collective construction and project-management experience.
SOURCE ▸Rob Clinch and Joe Greer are Gold Seal accredited project managers; Rob Clinch is LEED certified.
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