Who is hiring general contractors in Ontario right now?

543 building permits naming general contracting work were pulled in Ontario over the 23 days to August 14, 2026, about 165 a week. Each one names the address, the work type and the party who filed it, and the trade call typically goes out one to four months after the permit is issued.

What kind of general contracting work is it?

Mostly sfd - detached (105), commercial (94), multi-unit residential (43), with a long tail beyond that.

What are these general contracting jobs worth in Ontario?

400 of the 543 publish a declared value. The median is $78k and the largest is $415M. Declared value is the owner's construction cost estimate, not your contract value, so treat it as a size band rather than a budget.

How early is a building permit compared to a job posting?

Months. A building permit is pulled once the owner has committed the money and the drawings are stamped, and before the trades are picked. A job posting appears after somebody has already been chosen for everything else.

Who is hiring

General Contracting jobs in Ontario

Name: AEC Stack
Author: AEC Stack

543 building permits that need general contractors were pulled in Ontario over the 23 days to August 14, 2026. That is roughly 165 a week. The mix runs both ways, housing and commercial, with sfd - detached the single biggest slice. Worth watching both, because the two buy on completely different timelines. Where a value is published, the median job is $78k and the largest was $415M.

543

building permits pulled

165

new per week

$78k

median job value

Aug 14, 2026

most recent

Counts cover the 23 days to August 14, 2026.

Live right now in Ontario

2,569 open

Just pulled a permit

SCHIEDEL CONSTRUCTION INC

$15K

KitchenerPermit pulled Sep 30, 2026Addition/Alteration / Institutional

Likely scope, estimated

General Contracting

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.

Just pulled a permit

HEYCONEX GROUP INC.

$13K

KitchenerPermit pulled Sep 28, 2026Addition/Alteration

Likely scope, estimated

General Contracting

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..

Just pulled a permit

CHARLES BLOTT

$1.5M

TorontoPermit pulled Sep 28, 2026New Building / SFD - Detached

Likely scope, estimated

General Contracting

New Building permit at 19 ATHLONE DR, Toronto. General Contracting trade work estimated at $1,500,000 CAD. Structure type: SFD - Detached. Primary party: CHARLES BLOTT.

Excavation & Earthworks~Sep-Dec 2026

Concrete & Forming~Nov 2026 to Mar 2027

Just pulled a permit

MAGALI CHESTALAIN

$1.0M

TorontoPermit pulled Sep 25, 2026New Building / SFD - Detached

Likely scope, estimated

General Contracting

New Building permit at 177 JOICEY BLVD, Toronto. General Contracting trade work estimated at $1,000,000 CAD. Structure type: SFD - Detached. Primary party: MAGALI CHESTALAIN.

Excavation & Earthworks~Sep-Dec 2026

Concrete & Forming~Nov 2026 to Mar 2027

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What the work actually is

How City of Brampton classified the 543 building permits that name general contracting.

Addition/Alteration		449(83%)
New Building		86(16%)
General		8(1%)

What is being built

The structure types behind the general contracting work. This is the fastest way to tell whether the volume in Ontario is your kind of job.

SFD - Detached		105(32%)
Commercial		94(28%)
Multi-Unit Residential		43(13%)
3+ Unit - Detached		31(9%)
SFD - Semi-Detached		30(9%)
Multiple Unit Building		27(8%)

How to work this list

A pulled permit means the money is committed and the schedule is being built. For general contractors that is weeks to months of warning before the call goes out.
Split the list. Housing permits you chase this week and win on being reachable; commercial ones you chase by finding the general contractor and getting on the bid list.
Track the ones you contact somewhere that will remind you, because the trade call on most of these lands one to four months after the permit is issued.

General Contracting work in other markets

California1,075 San Diego600 Toronto478 San Francisco399 Texas324 Florida271 Fort Worth245 Miami214 Austin79 Orlando55

Other trades hiring in Ontario

Plumbing713 HVAC and mechanical388 Fire Protection65 Demolition54 Masonry16 Paving & Asphalt16 Roofing16 Excavation & Earthworks15 Concrete & Forming13 Electrical8

Where this comes from. Open building permit records published by City of Brampton, City of Greater Sudbury, City of Kitchener, City of Toronto. AEC Stack reads them daily, classifies the trades each job will need, and drops the jobs too large for a small contractor to bid.

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