Winter Works Overtime. We Keep Building
Connecting futures for Affordable Housing and Community Services is too urgent to wait for winter.
Winter weather will not slow our precast installs on the largest affordable housing project in Barrie’s history. The project is progressing through this very unusually difficult winter. Even with more than 9 feet of snow this season, PreCon is pushing ahead on the Rose Street Social and Community Services and Affordable Housing Development. Precast is built for resilience.
The County of Simcoe, ON received full development approval for a $217 million mixed-use development project. This development, aka The Rose Street Social and Community Services and Affordable Housing Development, will feature two towers comprising 215 rental residential units, which will include affordable and rent-geared-to-income housing. Additionally, the project will encompass approximately 4,750 square meters of space dedicated to community, social, and health services. The Social and Community Services space will be housed on a standalone structure which includes 3 levels of parking space (213 Stalls).
Situated on a 1.9-hectare site in a central urban area with access to amenities and transit, the development aims to serve as a large-scale Ontario Works and County Social and Community Services facility, supporting diverse housing needs and community partners. Melloul Blamey Construction was awarded to be the Construction Manager of the Project in 2024. Shortly after a competitive bidding process, PreCon was selected as the precast concrete subcontractor for the Social and Community Services and Parking Structure.
Team at Breaking Ground Event: Diego Fiallo, Ozgun Dervisoglu, Asad Malik, Paul Davis, Steven Perri, and Shawn Shafiei.
The PreCon team, including Project Manager Diego Fiallo, Design Engineer Philip Dino, and Modelers led by Vivek Mohun and Richa Dave, worked diligently with the owner, the client, and consultants—including MCL Architects and Gerrits Engineering—to complete the design and detailing of the structure.
Precast components for this structure are being produced in the new PreCon’s Woodstock precast manufacturing facility. PreCon’s site crew started erecting the precast components Winter 2025.
Precast Concrete Scope
The Social and Community Services and Parking Structure includes 500 precast components for 120,000 sq ft of precast deck area. Unlike a typical parking deck, the facade is made up of load bearing and non-load bearing insulated and solid precast wall panels, complete with formliners designed to imitate a brick pattern that will be stained to look like real brick.
Clear Skies Reveals Progress:
Beautiful day to hoist precast! PreCon has started erecting our newest garage for the largest affordable housing project in Barrie ON Canada. We will be installing 500 pieces of precast including columns, beams, double tees, wall panels and stair risers with pieces weighing up to 80,000 lbs. Along with a high-quality product from our manufacturing plant PreCon brings experienced crews and proven installations to every project. Paul Davis, Construction Manager at PreCon. February 12th, 2026
Stay tuned for completion of this exciting project!
Read more about our next level construction projects in our newsmagazine Connections: Fall 2025.
