Springhill Construction Limited (“Springhill” or “SCL”) was incorporated in 2001 to carry on a portion of the former Diamond Construction (1961) Limited and related companies (the “Diamond Group” or “Diamond”) as part of a corporate re-organization.

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The first of Mr. Ashley Colter’s construction companies, Diamond Construction (originally incorporated in 1926) was created to build forestry roads and bridges in support of his growing lumber operations.

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By 1950, Diamond was a major wharf and bridge builder in New Brunswick and had begun building and paving public roads during the post-war boom.  Commercial and Institutional buildings also became an important part of the company’s business at this time.  Additionally, the company had expanded its geographic scope of operations and was active in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 

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By the late 1990s, the Diamond Group had become an active member of the contracting community, and was involved in road building, asphalt paving, commercial quarrying, pile driving and the construction of larger commercial and institutional buildings, water and sewage treatment plants, highway structures and marine structures, throughout the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador.

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In 2001, as the Diamond Group was well into its re-organization, Mr. George Colter (grandson of Ashley Colter and then CEO of the Diamond Group) saw an opportunity to refocus both geographically and by product line to form a much leaner, more competitive, employee owned, New Brunswick based construction company; Springhill Construction Limited.