Pitt Meadows Plumbing Acquires Connelly Mechanical Services, Expanding Metro Vancouver Reach

Pitt Meadows Plumbing & Mechanical Systems Ltd. has acquired Vancouver, British Columbia-based Connelly Mechanical Services Ltd., the companies confirmed July 8. The Pitt Meadows Connelly acquisition brings a full-service HVAC, plumbing and fire-protection contractor into a mechanical platform based in Maple Ridge, B.C. The deal was first reported by Mechanical Business, a Canadian trade publication covering HVAC, hydronics and plumbing news for mechanical contractors. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Pitt Meadows Connelly Acquisition: Leadership and Transition Plans

Pitt Meadows' senior vice president Matthew Robinson and president and founder Steve Robinson welcomed Chris Gray, founder and president of Connelly Mechanical, into the combined company. According to Pitt Meadows, Gray will remain involved with the business through the transition and beyond, a structure common in mid-market mechanical contractor deals in which the departing owner helps preserve client relationships and technical continuity during the handover period.

Connelly, formally organized as Connelly Mechanical Systems Ltd., is headquartered in Surrey, B.C., and describes itself on its website as a full-service mechanical and plumbing contractor built to handle modern HVAC and plumbing installations. The company's project history includes multi-family developments built in both concrete and wood-frame construction, seniors' care homes, office and commercial buildings, and LEED-certified projects across the Metro Vancouver region. Past work listed by the company includes M4 at Lonsdale Square, Habitat 81, Lakewood, Covenant House, St. George, Fair Haven, Kiwanis Lynn Wood, City Centre 3, Como Lake Church and New Vista Care Home.

Pitt Meadows Connelly Acquisition Fits Canadian Consolidation Trend

Pitt Meadows Plumbing & Mechanical Systems, headquartered in Maple Ridge, describes itself as a leader in large-scale mechanical contracting projects focused on industrialized construction in Canada. The company uses prefabrication, automated tooling and building information modeling on projects that include the Royal Inland Hospital Patient Care Tower in Kamloops, B.C., a nine-storey structure with a rooftop helipad, two underground parking levels and a roughly 27,000-square-metre footprint housing a surgical suite, mental health beds, a perinatal center and a neonatal intensive care unit.

Adding Connelly's HVAC, plumbing and fire-sprinkler capabilities gives Pitt Meadows additional presence in the Metro Vancouver multi-family and institutional construction markets, where both companies have historically bid on similar mid-rise and high-rise projects. Connelly's service lines also include digital controls, gas work, and design-assist and design-build mechanical work, adding technical scope to Pitt Meadows' existing large-project focus.

British Columbia's institutional and multi-family construction market has drawn steady interest from mechanical contractors seeking scale, as population growth in Metro Vancouver continues to support demand for hospitals, seniors' housing and multi-family residential towers. Pitt Meadows has positioned itself around very large, industrialized mechanical scopes such as hospital towers, while Connelly has built its business on a broader range of mid-size multi-family and institutional projects. Pitt Meadows markets itself around what it calls industrialized construction, emphasizing prefabrication, automated tooling and building information modeling as ways to control costs and schedules on large mechanical scopes, technology investments the company has said help it compete for skilled trades workers amid an industry-wide shortage of licensed mechanical tradespeople.

The transaction follows a series of ownership changes across the Canadian HVAC and mechanical sector this year. Other Canadian platforms have expanded through acquisitions on the distribution and refrigeration side of the business in 2026, adding U.S. and cross-border locations to their networks. The Pitt Meadows Connelly acquisition extends that consolidation trend to contracting firms focused on HVAC and plumbing installation for multi-family and institutional buildings, pairing a large industrialized-construction specialist with a smaller design-build mechanical shop serving overlapping segments of the British Columbia market.

Business data provider ZoomInfo lists Connelly's Surrey office at roughly 17 employees, though neither company has confirmed a combined headcount following the acquisition or disclosed whether any positions will be affected by the integration. Connelly's own marketing materials credit founder and president Chris Gray with building the firm's reputation on multi-family, seniors' housing and institutional projects, work the company says will continue under its existing brand as it moves into Pitt Meadows' ownership.

The deal reflects a pattern seen across the Canadian mechanical trades, where owner-founders of mid-size contracting firms increasingly sell to larger regional platforms rather than pursue an internal succession plan, trading independence for access to larger project pipelines, shared back-office resources and additional bonding capacity needed to compete for bigger institutional and multi-family contracts.

Neither company disclosed revenue figures, combined employee counts, or an integration timeline for folding Connelly's active projects and personnel into Pitt Meadows' operations. Both companies continued to operate under their existing names and separate project sites following the announcement.