Mark Garland

About

Mark Garland has been a construction professional, practicing as a general contractor since 1978. He has worked in leadership roles in three companies during this period. Construction projects that Mark has supervised have spanned the globe from Alaska to the US Pacific Northwest, Canada, Asia and New Zealand. He has a Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Mark oversaw the construction of numerous high-rise office buildings as project manager in downtown Seattle, including the 56-story 1201 Third Avenue Building designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox.

In Auckland, New Zealand, Mark was executive in charge of the ASB Bank Centre, a 38-story project of which the six level basement was constructed from the top down. Mark has also consulted on projects in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

In 1992 Mark joined Lease Crutcher Lewis in Seattle, Washington, and played an influential role in growing the company’s diversity and revenues. Since 2003, Mark has operated out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Toronto business of Lease Crutcher Lewis spun off in 2009 to become an autonomous company. Mark is currently the President of GCL Builds Limited, a Canadian construction management and general contracting company. He was the principal in charge of the 60 storey St, Regis Toronto, formally Trump International Hotel + Tower. The building is 280m tall, with an iconic building top, including a 25 meter glass spire and a titanium clad quarter-dome roof.

Mark is a co-inventor of a patented method to construct concrete shear cores for high rise office buildings. Mark specializes in design and construction advice during the predevelopment phase of real estate projects.