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Founded in 1986, the company’s client base
stretches from Pugwash and Nova Scotia
to Saint John, New Brunswick with Sack-
ville and Amherst being their primary ser-
vice area. An energy efficiency advocate for
decades, Fraser has been an R2000 certified
builder since inception.
“In Canada we have the R2000 program
which was at the forefront of housing and
realizing that house a works as a system and
not individual components,” he said. “What
this program does and continues to do is try
and teach builders better practices for ener-
gy efficiency. Research Canada made model
homes and analyzed existing homes.”
“In the very early years we only built residen-
tial and energy efficient,” Fraser continued.
“This is where my love was – trying to get
a better performing house. This is prior to
heat pumps and there were still people using
oil back then. It evolved over time to include
home renovations and then we started to
dabble into light commercial.”
The move into commercial construction
proved a success. Now, Can-Tech’s revenue is