EFMA Vendor Profile: Centaur Products Inc

EFMA VENDOR PROFILE Centaur Products Inc.:COR Safety Program Centaur is a proponent of the COR safety program and has been a pioneer in the COR safety program in Alberta since Canada’s most accomplished its inception several years ago. We have received our Certificate Of Recognition (COR) and our proud of our genuine and rigorous commitment to workplace safety. Centaur employs the COR principles right across the country in our sport contracting specialist effort to keep all workers as safe as possible on our jobsites. With Centaur you are assured that workplace safety procedures are not only highly valued but strictly enforced. Our comprehensive safety program extends all the way through our organization, from the very top all the way through to our installation technicians.

Richmond Olympic Oval, Richmond, B.C.

Richmond Olympic Oval, Richmond BC

With clients ranging from major universities, professional sporting venues and large recreational facilities to small colleges and K-12 schools, we are highly committed to finding the best solutions for all of our clients’ sport contracting. Regardless of the size or scope of the project, we maintain the same philosophy throughout: a dedication to providing quality workmanship, a willingness to communicate and share our extensive industry expertise and above all else, an unrelenting commitment to providing the most attentive, understanding and accommodating client service possible.

INSTALLATION ExPERIENCE

Centaur Products Inc. has been in business for nearly 40 years. With regional offices and local installation technicians located in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Guelph, Montreal and Halifax, our extensive network of installation technicians guarantees that your project will be completed on time, and with the utmost in care. Our team offers a range of expertise with combined skills and specialized knowledge that is second-to-none.

Centaur Products recruits and trains our installation technicians in-house. Collectively, our installers have hundreds of years and thousands of hours of sport facility construction experience. Centaur’s installation technicians are the core of our organization and the company recognizes this by investing in training and skill development as well as providing them with challenging and unique projects. Our installers are of the best in the industry and pride themselves on producing exceptional work. Centaur Corporate Profile

FINANCIAL STRENGTH

Centaur has a long history in the sports construction industry and has full bonding capabilities for large projects. With annual revenue over $30 million and assets over $5 million, Centaur has produced consistent and steady growth throughout our 40-year history. Dedicated and long-standing ownership/ management has maintained its focus on providing continual returns to stakeholders, both internally and externally, and approaching the business with a focus on long-term decisionmaking and maintaining excellent relationships with clients and suppliers.

COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT kNOWLEDGE

Centaur specializes in a number of different product categories ranging from large-scale sport surfacing projects to the provision and installation of gymnasium equipment. This includes expertise in a number of different product categories including sports surfacing, spectator seating, scoreboards, electronic message displays, video displays and gymnasium equipment. We are exclusive dealers of Polytan Synthetic Sports Surfacing Systems, Robbins Sports Surfaces, Pulastic Synthetic Surfaces, Daktronics Scoreboards, Message & Video Displays, Irwin Seating Company and Southern Bleacher Grandstand Seating. This comprehensive umbrella of prod-

ucts, expertise and supplier relationships allows us to always Project Name: Talisman Centre derbird Stadium, home to the UBC Thunderbird’s football, provide the best solution to any sport facility construction Client: City of Calgary, Alberta soccer and rugby teams, was given the nickname the “mud need. bowl” as the long, wet B.C. fall and winter would take an enormous toll of the field conditions, rendering it nearly unplayable When a fire badly damaged the roof of the Talisman Centre in Calgary, Alberta, much of the interior of the facility also METHODOLOGY The construction of high-performance sport surfaces and at times. became badly damaged and the facility was in need of a renovation of their surfaces and sport facility equipment. This project required seamless communication and timing as much of the work had to occur simultaneously with new sport equipment is a highly specialized and complex underTo combat this recurring problem, the university considered roof construction. The Talisman Centre is now home to 8,000 square feet of synthetic sports surfacing, 47,000 square taking. It requires not only a specialized understanding of conartificial turf as an alternative; however, the surface needed to feet of hardwood court flooring, 2 indoor running tracks, 10,000 square feet of fitness room flooring, as well as 5 struction principles, but also in-depth knowledge of key athlet- be a high-performance stadium-grade artificial turf product basketball scoreboards and a state-of-the-art video display system. ic performance and safety requirements. Even small variations that would be capable of hosting high levels of competition, in product selection and installation techniques can lead to Contact: Carol Kinley, Facility Manager since the facility was often used as a site for high-profile sport dramatically varied results when it comes to the performance Tel: 403-874-0402 events in British Columbia including hosting Canadian Interof your sport facilities both from a spectator and athlete per- national Rugby matches and the B.C. High School Championspective. If minor details are overlooked during the planning, ships. Centaur worked with the UBC to provide and install an design and construction of the products, then they can be- artificial turf surface that would achieve both FIFA 2-Star and come victim to premature degradation, unsafe and unpredictIRB certification as well as retain this high-quality over the long able playing conditions and potentially incapable of facilitating high-level competition or training. term. In addition to the artificial turf, Centaur has installed an What makes Centaur truly unique is our ability to assist our IAAF outdoor running track at the university. clients through every stage of their project. By developing a Centaur is Canada’s most experienced sports construction comprehensive familiarity and involvement with a project Cen- management company and with our extensive experience, taur can provide numerous cost and time savings by ensuring clients can rest assured that all stages of the project will be seamless coordination of project tasks, enabling the creation conducted by experienced and knowledgeable professionof efficient and direct lines of communication and leveraging als. Employing the services of Centaur ensures that all stages expertise developed from collaboration between specialists. of your project will be carried out in the proper way and that Centaur Corporate Profile Above all else however, choosing Centaur any potential problems will be recognized and addressed imassures our clients of the highest levels of accountability and mediately, long before they can become larger, more costly trust throughout every stage of their project.

Case Study: Thunderbird Stadium Artificial Turf and Track Installation Client: University of British Columbia

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Centaur specializes in a number of different product categories ranging from large-scale sport surfacing projects to the provision and installation of gymnasium equipment.