Chris Ridgeway

Chris Ridgeway has been working on jobsites in Greater Vancouver for eighteen years, with the last twelve of those running cranes. He came up the way most operators do — starting on the ground, putting in seat hours, getting his ticket once he had the temperament to use it.

In 2015 he founded Ridgeway Construction & Crane Ltd., a Burnaby outfit that splits between commercial crane work and small custom home builds. The crane side puts the company on towers, pours, and lifts across Vancouver and Burnaby — recent work includes residential tower projects in downtown Vancouver and the Brentwood corridor, plus mid-rise pours in New Westminster and Coquitlam. The home-building side is smaller and more personal — a handful of custom two-storey homes in Burnaby Heights and East Vancouver, plus laneway homes for owners working to get more out of older Lower Mainland lots.

What gets less attention in the trade is everything that isn’t the lift or the swing or the cut: the scheduling, the bids, the small decisions an owner makes in week one that shape every week after. Chris writes about that side of construction on this site’s blog — not because the trade is short of voices talking about cranes (it isn’t), but because there’s room for operators and builders to talk honestly about how a project actually gets built, what owners get wrong, and where margin shows up or doesn’t.

He lives and works in Greater Vancouver — Burnaby, Vancouver, New Westminster, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, and Richmond. The contact page is the easiest way to reach him.