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the
10
Admired
Companies
to Watch
2020
Developing
Faster, Stronger,
Safer and More
Sustainable
Building Solutions
In 2010, the McKay family home burned to the ground Fires and floods are only two events in a long list
in a matter of minutes due to an electrical fire that of disasters that destroy homes, buildings and lives
started in the garage. Fortunately, it was during the every day, yet the construction industry maintains
daytime, and everyone escaped with their lives, albeit its dedication to the same disaster-prone materials.
with little more than the clothes on their backs. For MgO Systems Ltd. exists to change this narrative by
Todd McKay, MgO’s founder and former general building faster, stronger, safer and more sustainably.
contractor and electrician, this event would solidify
into a single mission: to build stronger, safer buildings. MgO Systems Ltd. recognizes that traditional
This mission led to the creation of MgO Systems Ltd. materials for constructing walls, roofs, and floors
demonstrate unacceptable performance when it
In the last hundred years, technology has driven every comes to the devestaing effects of force, fire, water,
industry in the world forward except for construction. mold and insects. Thus, they’ve developed, and now
The production of commonly used materials, such manufacture, technologically-advanced building
as Portland cement, has some of the highest carbon solutions for various construction applications such
footprints on the planet. The time to build is lengthy as commercial, residential, education, hospitality,
and continually changing, costing clients millions healthcare, etc.
in project delays and change orders. Traditional
construction materials are built to minimum standards The company’s proprietary building technologies,
that are frankly, unsafe and unreliable. Thirty years developed around patented magnesium oxide-based
ago, you had seventeen minutes to escape from a construction materials, are used in the design and
house fire; today, that has been drastically reduced to manufacturing of the C3 Engineered Wall Systems.
just three minutes! In 2013, 100,000 people throughout These systems provide clients with greater structural
southern Alberta were uprooted from their homes due performance, superior fire rating with no toxic
to catastrophic flooding. In the 2016 the forest fire offgassing, resistance to mold, mildew and insect,
that devastated Fort McMurray claimed 4400 homes increases insulation efficiencies and enhances acoustic
that were either totally destroyed or contaminated performance. The utilization of digital component
beyond repair. Just last year, 88 people were killed in technology affords custom design integration and
the California fires and 10,000 buildings destroyed. precise off-site manufacturing to provide an all-in-one
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