Built by people who work the North.
Refuge Construction was founded in Grande Prairie in 2006 with a clear idea: workforce camps and modular structures could be built faster, cleaner, and more reliably than the industry was delivering at the time. Twenty years later, we're still working from that idea — and from the same region that taught us how to do it right.
Our home base in the Peace Region puts us within reach of every major resource corridor in Western Canada, from the oilsands of Northern Alberta to the natural gas plays of Northeast BC, the mining operations of the Yukon and Northwest Territories, and the remote First Nations communities that anchor much of the work in between.
That geography isn't an accident. It's the entire reason Refuge exists. The North runs on logistics, weather windows, and trust. You don't get many second chances when a camp needs to be on the ground before the ice road closes, or when a remote community is counting on housing units to land before winter.
"We don't sell camps. We deliver capability — to crews, to contractors, and to the communities counting on the project."
Over the past two decades, Refuge has grown from a small operation serving a handful of regional clients into a company that delivers projects across four provinces and territories. We've expanded our fleet, built deeper Indigenous partnerships, earned every major safety certification the industry expects, and refined our processes so that the same standards apply whether we're delivering 20 beds or 500.
What hasn't changed is the way we work. Refuge is still based in Grande Prairie. Still owner-operated. Still built around the conviction that quality, safety, and reliability matter more than scale. Our crews still take pride in showing up, doing the work right, and leaving sites better than we found them.
If you're planning a project in the North — whether it's a temporary camp for a 90-day shutdown or a permanent modular complex for a community housing initiative — we'd like the chance to deliver it.