Construction Services that help clients build with confidence
Primary helps clients deliver reliable, electrical, utility, and powerline construction solutions across Canada. With experience on more than 10,000 completed projects and a team of 100+ skilled professionals, we bring precision, consistency, and an uncompromising commitment to safety and quality to every job.
Our integrated design-build approach combines in-house engineering, field-proven construction expertise, and self-performed construction services to deliver seamless, end-to-end solutions tailored to client’s needs. From initial concept through commissioning, we help reduce project risk, improve constructability, and deliver efficient outcomes while building reliable infrastructure and long-term partnerships.
What clients gain from Primary’s construction approach:
Clients choose Primary when they need a construction partner who can coordinate technical requirements, field execution, utility standards, and stakeholder expectations without losing sight of schedule and cost.
Our construction services help clients:
- Build reliable infrastructure designed for long-term performance
- Reduce risk through integrated engineering and construction coordination
- Improve schedule certainty with self-performed field capability
- Maintain quality and safety across changing site conditions
- Coordinate utilities, municipalities, developers, contractors, and stakeholders
- Support projects from early planning through commissioning, close-out, and maintenance
Primary helps developers, utilities, and project owners deliver reliable underground electrical systems built for long-term performance and system integrity. From new developments to complex infrastructure upgrades, our team provides the planning, technical expertise, and quality field execution needed to reduce risk, maintain schedules, and support dependable infrastructure in all conditions.
Capabilities include:
- Underground cable installation (primary and secondary systems)
- Duct banks and conduit infrastructure
- Vault and manhole installation
- Transformer and distribution equipment installation
- Cable splicing, terminations, and testing
- Civil construction and surface restoration
- Directional drilling and trenchless installations
- Maintenance, upgrades, and emergency response
Primary helps utilities, municipalities, developers, and project owners build and maintain overhead powerline systems that support safe, reliable, and cost-effective power delivery. Across diverse terrain, weather conditions, and project environments, our team delivers resilient overhead electrical infrastructure designed for long-term performance and dependable service.
Capabilities include:
- Pole line construction
- Conductor stringing and sagging
- Live line (energized) work and maintenance
- Pole-mounted equipment installation
- System upgrades and voltage conversions
- Service connections and extensions
- Vegetation management and right-of-way preparation
- Maintenance, troubleshooting, and storm response
- Pole replacements and line relocations
Primary helps clients coordinate multi-utility construction that supports efficient development and dependable long-term service. Our field teams help reduce conflicts between utility scopes, improve installation sequencing, and support cleaner project handoffs.
Capabilities include:
- Multi-utility trenching and installation
- Conduit and duct systems
- Service laterals and customer connections
- Utility coordination and joint-use construction
- Telecommunications infrastructure installation
- Gas distribution installation
- Civil works and restoration
- Upgrades, relocations, and maintenance
Primary helps municipalities, developers, and transportation partners improve safety, visibility, and mobility with reliable streetlighting and traffic signal systems built to applicable standards.
Capabilities include:
- Streetlight and traffic signal installation for new builds and rebuilds
- Underground electrical and ducting systems
- Foundations and pole bases
- System upgrades and retrofits including LED and control systems
- Controls, programming, commissioning, and integration
- Maintenance, emergency support, and rapid response
- Civil works and restoration
Primary’s integrated design-build approach helps clients streamline delivery, reduce coordination gaps, and manage project risk from early planning through energization. With planning, engineering, construction, and project management working together, clients gain a single coordinated team focused on practical, buildable outcomes.
Capabilities include:
- Concept planning and feasibility analysis
- Detailed engineering and system design
- Permitting and regulatory approvals
- Procurement and supply chain management
- Integrated construction execution
- Project management and cost control
- Testing, commissioning, and energization
- As-builts and lifecycle support
Related Projects
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100MVA 138kV:25kV substation and 25kV distribution system to feed the client’s datacenter facility.
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Primary provided full turnkey services for a 2.6 km fibre node split build within the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul in Manitoba
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Primary has completed a mix of design, design/build, and construction only projects for single phase residential, bareland condo
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