FirstCon Group
FirstCon is a large Toronto based construction management company focusing on High Rise, Mid Rise and ICI projects throughout the greater Toronto area.
As a construction manager FirstCon plans, implements and hands over all construction aspects of the project. Their team consist of (but is not limited to) Site Supers, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, Project Controls and managing Consultants.
See more on FirstCon’s projects list on their website https://www.firstcon.com/
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Roland Kovacs
Senior Site Superintendent
Roland migrated to Canada in 1991 with his family where he was raised in Windsor Ontario. Roland joined the University of Windsor in their Mechanical Engineering Automotive program for product design. Roland’s father owned a General Contracting firm therefore his family background and roots are in construction. When his father was hired as a consultant in house for a retirement residence developer, Roland’s first job was naturally in construction. Roland was brought in under the wing of his father to start his first job and his eventual career in construction. He began as an Assistant Clerk onsite building retirement homes. Eventually, he was promoted to Finishing Super and Site Clerk working on 88 plus units still in midrise multi residential. The locations of the projects varied so Roland was accustomed to moving around Ontario for major projects. In 2011 Roland started his first Assistant Site Super position in High Rise. From there he was offered a position as a Site Super for another developer working on a challenging project where he learned the challenges of excavation, shoring, seismic footings and geothermal heating. After working for multiple well-known high-rise builders, Roland settled at Firstcon group. He is currently their Senior Site Superintendent overseeing multiple projects ranging from Mid to High Rise, sales centers, and in various degrees of construction. The highest tower Roland has completed to date is 29 floors. Along with this accomplishment Roland has completed Wood Stick frame structures and live bridge builds (in between towers). Roland enjoys working with Firstcon group as the current team is engaging and willing to take on new challenges. The team has synergy and actively communication on all projects.
Sabrina Lombardi
Project Manager
In 2005 Sabrina graduated from York University with a double major in Communication and Humanities. At the time she selected her Post Secondary path, she was unsure exactly what it was she wanted to do as a career. During school Sabrina picked up a summer job with Canderel working in Admin. In 2004, one of her peers moved to a Low Rise Developer and Sabrina followed her there. The Low Rise builder was family owned and flexible with Sabrina’s school schedule. She worked on her days off and weekends as a Customer Care representative on site. In her last year of school, Sabrina was working almost full time for the developer and gaining tremendous experience. After 7 years in Low Rise, Sabrina had climbed her way to Operations Manager. She then set her sights on new challenges in the world of high rise. Sabrina believes strongly in staying in touch and continual communication with past coworkers. In 2011 she reached back out to her contacts at Canderel who were ramping up their projects downtown Toronto for high rise multi residential. Reliance, the construction management firm for Canderel, offered Sabrina a position as Project Coordinator. With no experience in High Rise Sabrina set down her new career path in Project Management. In 2015 Sabrina took her first maternity leave to start her family. The challenges to balance motherhood and career growth were evident but Sabrina continued to push her career forward. Upon her return from maternity leave, she began looking for Project Management responsibilities. In 2017 she was made an offer from Firstcon to test her abilities as Assistant Project Manager. Today Sabrina is a Project Manager with Firstcon working on multiple projects. Firstcon allows her the opportunity to wear multiple hats and gain knowledge in various aspects of a project. Sabrina has been exposed to Development, pre-construction, construction and site works at various levels, commissioning and occupancy. At Firstcon they have given her the chance to take the next step in her career while embracing her next adventure in motherhood. Her maternity leave is set for summer 2019! Sabrina is looking forward to her continued success and support from Firstcon.
Denise McDonald
Office Administrator
Denise started her construction career by accident. She wasn’t specifically looking to get into construction, but once she did, she found a whole new world of opportunity. In 2014 Denise started as a Temp for PNR rail. At the time she was covering for the Office Manager who was on maternity leave. Denise was living in Cambridge and worked to cover the maternity leave in the Signals and Communication branch of PNR. When the Office Manager did not return from mat leave, Denise was offered the position to take on Office Manager duties as well as Office Administrative support. In 2016 Denise decided to move back to Toronto, PNR had coincidently opened a Signals and Communications project office to head the Metrolinx and Union Station projects. Denise stayed with PNR as a Project Administrator in their Toronto office ensuring the team was hitting milestones, supporting Project Management teams, Engineering teams commissioning teams. Deliverables for Denise varied from earthworks to technical engineering. Denise’s skill set in tracking, coordinating and organization led her to interview for an Office Administrative role with Firstcon. She was hired in January of 2019 and was very excited to partake in all aspects of Project Management support, reconciliation of invoices, starting protocol on drawings logs, RFI’s & PO procedures and creating document control systems. Denise is eager to grow into a Project Coordinator position with Firstcon and to be more boots on ground as the company grows.
