// COMPANY DOSSIER
Ironworkers Local 764
Building-trades labour union representing structural, ornamental and reinforcing ironworkers and welders across Newfoundland and Labrador. It supplies skilled field labour to construction/industrial contractors, runs apprenticeship and journeyperson certification training, and administers member dispatch, benefit plans and a job line.
📍 Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada✓ 88% first-party verified
// CLIPS FROM Ironworkers Local 764
// LESSONS FROM Ironworkers Local 764
Filter design-build customers before engaging: only take on clients who already have a clear handle on what they want — clients who don't know yet should go to an architect first.
In design-build, optimize the whole building envelope, not just your own scope — a $500 addition to the steel package that saves $1,000 in wall panels is a win for the client and deepens the relationship.
Pre-fabricating steel in a controlled shop environment (3D-modeled, CNC-fed) reduces on-site person-hours, risk, and schedule uncertainty compared to stick-building in uncontrolled conditions.
Tekla 3D modeling eliminates fabrication error: if it fits in the model it fits in the field, and CNC files go straight to the machine with no human data-handling in between.
Listen to the tradespeople who are actually on the tools — they've installed more steel than engineers have designed, and their field knowledge (erection sequences, temporary support schemes) routinely solves problems formal drawings miss.
Design-build's schedule advantage over traditional architect-engineer-tender is its most concrete selling point: the PEI potato barns went from May award to October occupancy — roughly half the traditional timeline.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Iron Workers Training Centre (Local 764)
CompletedOwner / client (facility built for Local 764; structural steel and miscellaneous metals contract awarded to Marid Industries)
This is the union's own training centre, not a job its members were dispatched to build under their trade. Recorded as a verified facility/asset; the construction was performed by Marid Industries as steel subcontractor, with Local 764 as the owner/client. Square footage and year per Marid's project page.
// KEY PEOPLE
// NOTABLE
On Jan. 8, 2025 the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers placed Local 764 under trusteeship as an 'emergency measure', dismissing local president Larry Hawco and business manager Tom Woodford (also then president of Trades NL), along with district council delegates and trust-fund trustees, amid an open investigation.
SOURCE ▸Following the trusteeship, the local's business and affairs are managed by Iron Workers District Council of Eastern Canada president Jimmy Buisson and the international union's vice-president of Canadian affairs Colin Daniels; the local remains operational (current dispatching rules document published on its site in Jan. 2026, acting officers listed).
SOURCE ▸Local 764 represents skilled tradespeople across Newfoundland and Labrador, with its office at 38 Sagona Avenue, Mount Pearl, NL.
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