Who is hiring
2,889 construction building permits were pulled in Ontario over the 26 days to August 17, 2026, across 11 trades. The busiest trades right now are plumbing, general contracting and HVAC. Median declared job value across the ones that publish a number is $50k. Everything here comes off the open permit records of City of Brampton, City of Greater Sudbury, City of Kitchener and others.
10 companies put their name on three or more building permits in Ontario over the 26 days to August 17, 2026. These are the 10 busiest of them, straight off the public record.
Artak Group Inc, Mather Fine Homes file across three or more trades, which is what running a whole job looks like on the permit record. Those are the names to call about subcontract work.
Every trade with enough building permit volume in Ontario to be worth watching. The count is how many of the 2,889 name that trade.
SCHIEDEL CONSTRUCTION INC
Likely scope, estimated
Addition/Alteration permit at PLAN 1489 PT LOT 32 RP 58R-5097 PT PART 1 RP 58R-7452 PARTS 1 AND 2 AND RP 58R-14797 PART 1 AND EXP WR1152266 PLAN PART 4, Kitchener. General Contracting trade work estimated at $15,000 CAD. Structure type: Institutional. Primary party: SETH SCHIEDEL :SCHIEDEL CONSTRUCTION INC.
EXPERT SIGN AND LIGHTING INC.
Likely scope, estimated
General permit at 2 fascia signs, Kitchener. trade work estimated at $5,000 CAD. Primary party: FENI PATEL :EXPERT SIGN AND LIGHTING INC..
THE GLOBE STUDIOS (KW)
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General permit at TRACT GERMAN COMPANY SUB LOT 17 PT LOT 297 PT LOT 298 PT LOT 303 RP 58R-2803 PARTS 6-7, Kitchener. Plumbing trade work estimated at $1,000 CAD. Structure type: Institutional. Primary party: REBECCA DE LEO :THE GLOBE STUDIOS (KW).
HEYCONEX GROUP INC.
Likely scope, estimated
Addition/Alteration permit at PLAN 58M-258 PT BLK 21 RP 58R-13866 PT 269, Kitchener. General Contracting trade work estimated at $13,000 CAD. Primary party: OMAR KARA :HEYCONEX GROUP INC..
By the time a job is on a jobs board the trades are already picked. A pulled permit is months earlier: the owner has committed the money, the drawings are stamped, and the schedule is being built. Nobody has called your trade yet.
That gap is the whole opportunity. Ontario issued 2,889 of them in this window, and each one names an address, a work type and the party who filed it. Reach the ones that will need you before the phone tree starts and you are not bidding against four other quotes.
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