History
The Gisborne Group is a privately held industrial general construction company, with all principals playing active roles within the Company. Gisborne started out in 1953 as a forest industry related, maintenance overload, and labour contractor.
In the early 1960’s Gisborne added an engineering group that designed and engineered projects in the forest industry. This expansion was a key element to their success. In the earliest years, the design and engineering project work consisted almost exclusively of dimensional lumber producing sawmills but progressed to include value-added forestry related manufacturing plants, plywood manufacturing facilities, pulp and paper operations and engineered wood operations. Gisborne has a very successful record of having designed and constructed in excess of 200 forestry related operations. In the mid 1970’s, Gisborne added a fire protection design and construction division with the focus on providing fire protection systems for the various mills and plants within the forest industry. When the down turn came for the dimensional lumber manufacturing industry, the fire protection division along with the construction group continued to flourish as they had expanded their expertise to allow them to service the then growing and robust engineered panel industry. Gisborne fire protection provided fire protection design, supply and construction services to nearly every plant of this type constructed in North America in the past 20 years. This division has been a very successful addition to the company.
Today, Gisborne enjoys continued growth and success in all industrial construction sectors with both construction and fire protection. The mining sector, in the past decade, has come to the forefront and Gisborne's diversification into this sector approximately 40 years earlier has allowed the company to make this sector a primary focus. Gisborne has been actively involved with the construction of numerous mining operations. These operations include coal, base metals, precious metals and gem stones and include both open-pit and underground mining operations.
With a dedicated core of senior employees and support office personnel, Gisborne employs in excess of 500 trade personnel, plus sub-contractors, on an average annual basis. With a construction base firmly established, along with core company values, Gisborne is strongly positioned for continued success.