About Plant Group

The Plant Group provides project management and engineering services related to transportation infrastructure (road, highway, railway, port, transit and airport facilities), environmental infrastructure (water, wastewater, drainage and storm water management, waste management and recycling), buildings (industrial, commercial and institutional facilities) and industry (food processing, wood products, steel, energy and motion pictures).

Operating with a core group of full time staff, the firm collaborates with an extensive network of independent professionals, established consulting firms and general contractors to meet myriad Client needs.

Philosophy

The Plant Group is committed to a collaborative approach in addressing and serving its clients and colleagues:

By partnering, we can virtually eliminate the adversarial nature of the traditional project implementation process. With more energy focused on problem solving than assignment of blame, projects are bound to move ahead more quickly and efficiently.

- Jeffrey Plant

Management

Jeffrey Plant,
MBA, P.Eng., CVS, PMP
President

With over thirty years of experience as a professional engineer and project manager, working both as a consultant and as a construction contractor, Mr. Plant has provided services to government agencies, municipalities, first nations, railways, developers, building owners, industrial clients, financial institutions, other consultants and general contractors.

In recent years he has played strategic roles in the management and execution of over 20 major infrastructure projects. Selected achievements include the US$650 million Port of Miami Tunnel Project, US$800 million Highway 2000 project in Jamaica and a US$70 million wastewater infrastructure design and procurement project in Venezuela. Mr. Plant also participated on teams pursuing the $600 million Fredericton-Moncton highway project and the $3 Billion Ontario Highway 407ETR privatization.

Previous executive experience includes the management of business units for two international consulting engineering firms, participation in several successful business start-ups and involvement in several mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Plant also served as President of a business unit for a publicly traded company during a turn-around situation.

He has applied his broad managerial and strategic expertise to projects across Canada, in the USA, Mexico, Jamaica, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Egypt, Turkey, Ukraine, China, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Mr. Plant serves as a member of the Board of Directors and sits on the Executive Committee of SAVE International, the Value Society.

Please contact Plant Group for further information