Owner’s Representative in Durham Region, ON
Durham Region Owner’s Representation
Much of the GTA’s industrial and institutional building has moved to Durham. Ajax and Whitby have taken the distribution centres, Oshawa the manufacturing and campus growth, Clarington the energy and hospital work. Myhal Construction represents the owners behind that kind of project: the company, institution or family that has to build once and get it right, without a construction department of its own.
We come to Durham with judgment formed over more than twenty years at PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties, on $3 billion of delivered work including large-format industrial, a municipal transit campus and transit-anchored residential. We hold no construction contract.
Construction Project Management in Durham Region, ON
Construction project management in Durham Region is a different job in each municipality, because each one issues its own permits and sets its own development charges under the Region’s umbrella. Our project managers have run industrial, institutional and residential delivery and bring one senior contact to any of them.
Across Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax and Clarington, we are set up to manage:
- Warehouse and distribution buildings along the 401, 407 and 418 corridors in Ajax and Whitby
- Manufacturing plants, shops and supplier facilities serving the automotive and nuclear sectors in Oshawa and Clarington
- Healthcare, long-term care and campus buildings delivered under public procurement rules
- Mid-rise and high-rise residential around the Lakeshore East GO stations
- Recovery of projects stalled at permit, at tender or on site
Our Services in Durham Region. Every service, one senior team.
Owners in Durham call us for one piece of a project or for all of it. These are the five services we bring to the Region.
Owner’s representation
Senior, independent representation on Durham Region projects, from a distribution centre in Ajax to a supplier facility in Clarington.
Owner’s representation →Construction project management
The daily running of schedule, cost, procurement and contracts in Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax or Clarington, under whichever delivery model you choose.
Construction project management →Development management
Land, feasibility, approvals and financing for Durham owners without a development team.
Development management →Construction consulting & estimating
Independent estimates, bid reviews and lump-sum versus construction management comparisons, priced against what Durham trades are charging this year.
Construction consulting & estimating →Preconstruction planning
Budget, schedule, procurement strategy and delivery model settled before anything is committed, so the tender you issue is the one you meant to.
Preconstruction planning →Construction Problems in Durham Region, ON. How to choose between a general contractor and construction management
Most owners in Durham are asked to pick a delivery model before anyone explains what the choice means. Neither is right for every project.
Start with what is fixed
If the drawings are complete and the date can move, a lump-sum general contractor gives you a firm price and one party accountable for the whole. If the date is fixed and the drawings are not, construction management lets you start before design is finished.
Price the risk, not just the fee
A general contractor’s number carries a premium for the unknowns it absorbs. A construction manager’s fee looks smaller, but the owner keeps those unknowns. Compare the two fully loaded, contingency included.
Look at who is available
In Durham the answer often turns on which contractors have capacity this year. A strong lump-sum bidder list is worth more than the perfect model on paper.
Bring in representation
We have delivered lump-sum work at $15 million and construction management at $540 million, and we will tell you which fits your project and your appetite for risk. Call 647-932-2902 before the RFP goes out, when the choice is still cheap to make.
Under a CCDC 5A construction management contract the owner holds the trade contracts directly. You see every trade price, and the coordination risk is yours, which is where an owner’s representative earns their keep.
Durham Region, Ontario Construction Project Management
Durham Region is about 50 minutes east of our Toronto office. Regional non-residential permits reached $1.23 billion in 2023, led by two warehouse and distribution developments in Ajax worth $179 million and $160 million and new long-term care homes in Clarington and Ajax. Values eased only about five per cent in 2024.
The public pipeline is larger still. Metrolinx awarded the roughly $1 billion construction contract for the Bowmanville GO Extension on January 30, 2026: 18.7 kilometres of new track from Durham College Oshawa GO to Bowmanville. In Clarington, OPG holds a licence to build the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor at Darlington, with the first unit targeted to operate by the end of 2029. Lakeridge Health’s Bowmanville Hospital redevelopment, nearly doubling the hospital, closed its RFP in June 2026 with a builder expected this fall.
The rules change at each municipal boundary. Oshawa exempts new industrial buildings and industrial additions from its municipal development charges. The Region’s Industrial DC Deferral Program, open since March 2025, lets industrial permit applications filed from February 1, 2025 defer the regional charge for up to five years. Reading those correctly can change which municipality a building lands in, and we do it before the pro forma is finished.
Work like yours. The record we bring east from PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties.
Riverbend Business Park — Building 5
Canada’s first large-scale multi-level industrial building — 707,000 SF over two full levels, with heated-ramp trailer access to the upper floor. Fully leased to Amazon. Construction management, 2022.
Mississauga Transit Campus Expansion
A 466,000 SF expansion of Mississauga’s transit maintenance and storage campus.
Scarborough Junction
A $3B, 26-acre master-planned community anchored at Scarborough GO Station — 7,655 approved homes across a dozen towers up to 58 storeys, with new parkland, community amenities and full environmental remediation. Led all preconstruction planning and activities.
Kyle Parry. Directly, on every engagement.
Kyle founded Myhal after more than twenty years leading construction for PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties, with over $3 billion delivered across office, residential, retail and industrial projects in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia.
Owners in Durham Region work with Kyle, not with an account team. More about Myhal.
Questions owners ask us about building in Durham Region.
Have you built in Durham Region before?
Our firm has not, and we will not tell you otherwise. What we bring is our founder’s record at PCL Constructors and Oxford Properties on the same industrial, municipal and transit-oriented residential work Durham is building now.
Which is cheaper in Durham, a general contractor or construction management?
It depends on how complete your drawings are and how much risk you want to hold. A lump-sum price includes a premium for the contractor’s risk, while construction management leaves that risk with you. We compare both fully loaded before you decide.
How much does an owner’s representative cost for a Durham project?
Either a small percentage of construction value or a fixed monthly fee, sized to the project and the stage. Call 647-932-2902 and we will give you a real number after a first look at the file.
Do you cover Uxbridge, Scugog and Brock?
Yes, along with Pickering to the west. See where we work.
- Pickering, ON
- Toronto, ON
- Markham, ON
- Uxbridge and Port Perry, ON
- All GTA locations →
Building in Durham Region? Call before the numbers are locked in.
Owner’s representation and construction project management in Durham Region, Ontario. 50 minutes from our Toronto office.