to their service offering. By the mid-90s, the company again expanded their services to include fire suppression – making them the only fullservice mechanical contractors in the Okanagan Valley. Craig personally joined Chapman Mechanical in 2001, and worked his way through the ranks from apprentice, to journeyman, to site foreman, to estimator and project manager, to now general manager and partner. In his time with the business, he’s seen it continually grow in size and capacity, andhe has been given the opportunity to work on some of the largest and most complex projects in the Okanagan. Today, those large-scale projects are Chapman Mechanical’s specialty. Their work now includes a variety of commercial, industrial, institutional and multiresidential projects. In recent years, in particular, they have done a lot of schools, hospitals, chick hatcheries, grow facilities, and various processing facilities. One recent milestone project was for The Valens Company, on a one-of-a-kind 42,000 square-foot processing facility in Kelowna. Currently, they are working on multiple large-scale commercial and multi-residential projects – including a city-block-sized multi residential project called Mackenzie Village at Revelstoke, which is expected to be another milestone when complete. That diversity of work is not an accident, Craig explains: “There are a lot of companies in the valley that are known for one specific thing,” he says. “You think of some companies and you think, ‘Oh, they’re the high-rise guys,’ or ‘they’re the multi-res guys’ or ‘they do APRIL 2022
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