Build on our Experience
Full-service construction management serving Toronto, the GTA and businesses across Ontario
For close to 40 years, our construction management experts have brought functional, workable, and livable spaces from vision to reality. Retail stores and restaurants. Office complexes and industrial facilities. Deluxe homes and additions. Places of learning, wellness, entertainment, recreation and, worship.
We have facilitated the construction of them all, with tremendous care, precision, and oversight. Our background in engineering allows us to take a practical approach to every project.
Our Secret to Success?
Decades of Experience and Highly Qualified People.
Through our time-tested methodology, we ensure best building practices, seamless change management, and disciplined adherence to schedule and budgets, each stage of the construction journey.
We also take the time to vet our construction partners and suppliers: specialized professionals in every discipline from electrical and plumbing to architecture and engineering.
John Herczegh
Founder and President
A consummate construction leader known for his solid character, quality control and business integrity, John Herczegh is at the helm of every HCM Construct project.
Over his 30-year construction career working in the GTA and abroad, he has led a wide range of multi-million dollar builds (industrial and commercial through residential), many of them from the ground up. His unique foresight and shrewd problem-solving skills enable him to fast-track builds of exceptional quality — and keep them on schedule for demanding clients.
Highlights of his career include:
- Hotels across Ontario for the Marriott chain.
- Industrial and commercial facilities for SNC Lavalin, Gay Lea Foods, RBC Insurance.
- Upscale restaurants, including Sassafraz, Biff’s Bistro and Bier Market (Shops at Don Mills).
- GTAA Administration building and its Infield buildings ($80 million project)
- Three retirement homes from the ground up ($7.8 million project)
- Custom homes – including a 12000 sq. ft. Forest Hill residence ($7.2 million) and an 8000 sq. foot log cabin modern conversion ($5.2 million)
- Institutional builds for International Academy of Design (CBC building and York University (Library)
- A 98-unit low-rise condo building in Nassau Bahamas, ($42 million project)
Prior to forming HCM construct, John oversaw construction projects for large companies, working as a senior construction manager with TGA, P.C.I. and STC, among others. With TGA, he directed major projects totally budgets of more than $140 million a year.
John holds a Civil Engineering Technology degree from Ryerson University and is fully registered with the Project Management Institute.
Building across the globe
John also brings invaluable international experience working on housing and construction projects around the world. Notably, he has worked on large projects involving low-cost and pre-fab housing in:
- Poland
- Nigeria
- Indonesia
- Ghana
- China
- Brazil
- Jamaica
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Trinidad
- St. Lucia
- St. Maarten
Mila Vezmar
Project Coordinator
Mila is the administrative heart of HCM Construct and the first contact with clients. She specializes in activity and resource planning, cost estimation, documentation and ensuring projects are proceeding on target. Highly organized and personable in equal measure, Mila brings great relationship management skills and a head for numbers to her job at HCM. She ensures budgets are balanced, trades are on track, and customers are kept well informed each stage of the project.
Mila brings a decade of project management experience and a strong marketing background. Prior to HCM, she worked in project and administration management for Paramount Commercial Solutions, ImaginiT Technologies and Revlon. She holds a diploma from the International Academy of Design & Technology
Seven Ways We Build It Better
1. Accuracy
From estimating costs precisely… to ensuring every brick, beam and tile is perfectly in place, our proven methodologies give you with a level of exactitude you won’t find with other builders.
2. Experience
With close to four decades of building virtually every kind of professional, industrial, and residential structure, throughout Canada and internationally, our experience can’t be beat. The same goes for our trusted network of talented trades and specialists that we assign to projects.
3. Scope
Whatever the nature of your build, we can take it on. Our construction and design teams comprise seasoned specialists with hands-on experience in virtually every kind of project – from restaurants and big box retail to industrial facilities.
4. Specialization
Solar panels and steel roofing. Modular building and thermal bridging. Look to us for a remarkable range of specialized skillsets. In addition to traditional building techniques, we are adept in new technologies and can tackle even the most challenging and future-forward builds.
5. Sustainable
Our environmentally conscious team follows responsible construction practices. That means strict adherence to waste management, energy and water efficiency, recycling, and use of eco-friendly materials, wherever possible. We also partner with likeminded trades and suppliers.
6. Safety
From proper PPE and health protocols to the best training, equipment, and maintenance of secure worksites, we take safety seriously. We ensure our managers, site staff, and tradesmen are fully certified in proper safety procedures and comply with guidelines of the Health & Safety Act.
7. Value
With HCM Construct, your project dollar goes a lot further. Thanks to our lean and efficient construction processes and on-call team of experienced contractors, you’ll be harnessing the best expertise for less to get your project built to the highest standards.