J. W. Lindsay Pomerleau and Durck DeWinter

Bird Construction: Beating off competition from Ellis Don, PCL Constructors, J. W. Lindsay and Pomerleau, Bird bid to build the 325,000-square-foot store over an estimated 14 months was headed by its senior vice president and Atlantic district manager, Durck DeWinter, according to The Chronicle Herald. This is one of the higher profile commercial projects we have been involved with in our quarter century in the Halifax region, DeWinter said in an interview. Mississauga-based Bird Construction is the biggest winner so far from IKEA commitment to build a $100-million store in Dartmouth Crossing. DeWinter, a 49-year-old native of Sussex, N.B., started national hotel chain Amsterdam Inn when he was just 27. His father company, Prestige Homes, a prefab home building company, was acquired by the Shaw Group in 1999. The son of Dutch immigrants, he said he has building in his blood. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.