Ruth Calder

She ran every job for the first twenty years and still walks most site visits on the Saanich Peninsula. The rule that we test every pile we drive is hers.

Before the business, Ruth spent eight years as a deckhand and then mate on the tugs that towed log booms between Crofton and Nanaimo.

She handed day-to-day management to her son Owen in 2016 and now spends her time on the jobs she likes best: seawalls, breakwaters and anything with old stone in it.