| Celebrating over 25 years in family business, Greely Sand &Gravel Inc. is one of the most valued suppliers of landscape and construction products in the Ottawa region.
Continuing the family business, their son David climbed onboard in the ' 90s, followed by their daughter Tara in the millennium. They are following in the footsteps of their grandfather and father, focusing on product quality and service. Ottawa's residential and commercial communities have come to rely on GS&G for all their landscape and commercial needs. With the ever changing demands, GS&G continues to be innovative in creating and establishing new products and services to meet and exceed their customer’s expectations.
PRODUCTS GS&G has become a leader in designing and creating new products and services. GS&G enjoys the challenge of creating specialty products to meet job specifications and is a founder of many specialty products, including Greely’s Topdressing Soil™. The soil is designed for specific uses around the home and became the building block of GS&G's soil reputation. GS&G also specializes in Ottawa Playground Sand and Ottawa Playground Stone, both having undergone impact surface testing to ensure safe surfaces for children. GS&G’s innovation further extends to Infield Mixes, available in both red and grey colour, Rooftop Mixes, Sports Field Topdressing Soil, Commercial Screened Topsoil, Bedding Soil, Mantle Sand, Hydro Sand, and many more.
GS&G excels in supplying landscaping products to meet market demands, including natural and coloured mulches, Coloured Riverwash Stone, crushed stone, Continental Mushroom Compost, Playground Planners’ Cedar Weave (playground mulch), Mountain Grey Wall Stone, Chocolate Wall Stone, and much more. To continue creating and maintaining quality products, GS&G sends many samples to accredited labs to be tested. To ensure consistency of the material, GS&G has also developed an “in-house” lab for on-the-spot testing. Providing quality and reliable products helps strengthen the relationship GS&G has with their customers. When looking at some well-known locations within the City of Ottawa, GS&G’s products have been incorporated in the landscaping. Some locations include the US Embassy, the Governor General’s rose gardens, the NCC tulip beds, the Rideau Centre indoor planter boxes, the rooftop of the War Museum, and sports fields throughout the City of Ottawa and Eastern Ontario.
SERVICES Throughout the City of Ottawa, GS&G
has 4 locations and over 1,000 acres of pits. It has two maintenance
facilities for its equipment totaling over 10,000 square feet. GS&G owns screening plants, wheel loaders, excavators, along with trucks and trailers for hauling. Greely maintains an updated fleet for cost effective production and service. An innovative idea allowed GS&G to design Mini Roll-off Containers which allow the customer to get two products delivered at the same time and rent the container for excavation and/or leaf and yard waste clean-up. Customers are able to save money and time. Also available are specially designed tandem and triaxle dump trucks equipped with dividers. This allows for customers to receive two larger quantities of products at one time, and save money. Yet another innovative idea! Two Landscape Depots provide the customer with all the necessary products to get their projects completed. Small quantities are easily loaded on trucks and trailers with a small one cubic yard bucket. Come discover Greely’s Landscape Depot.
GS&G's mature compost passes the
Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) standards for
Category A compost. This allows them to blend their
reliable Category A compost with other materials to create unique products,
returning compost to the environment.
HEALTH AND SAFETY The management of GS&G is focused on the health and safety of its employees and makes every effort to provide a safe, healthy working environment. A complete health and safety program has been implemented at GS&G. Jamie Elford is a Health and Safety Worker Representative who is dedicated and passionate about the well-being of his fellow employees. Throughout the years, Jamie has developed a health and safety manual for GS&G and has implemented the policies and procedures. His continued dedication resulted in him receiving the honoured Individual Health and Safety Award by the Ontario, Stone, Sand and Gravel Association. Congratulations Jamie! GS&G strives to ensure health and safety is on the minds of all its employees. The publication “Greely Safety News” is distributed within the company to inform employees of health and safety issues and updates. As well, Safe Driving Awards are presented at each annual Christmas party. The prestigious “Health and Safety Award” is given to one employee who has demonstrated his/her efforts in health and safety within the company. The winner of the “Health and Safety Award” of 2009 is Bill Dalgleish — Just another way to encourage Greely’s employees to think safety! GS&G is a member of the Mines
and Aggregates Safety & Health Association,
and believe in their motto, “Every worker should come home safe
and healthy every day”.
HELPING HAND GS&G has always and will always lend a helping hand to their community. GS&G has sponsored the Lions Clubs of Metcalfe, Greely and Osgoode, along with the Greely Players, Metcalfe Co-op Nursery, The Wish Foundation in Greely, and Osgoode Township High School – Relay for Life. Numerous products, including soils, crushed stone, mulches, sandfill and Ottawa Playground Sand has been provided to the Metcalfe Fair, the Kars Fair, Canada Day and the Winter Carnival in Greely, the Osgoode Care Centre, St. Catherine’s Elementary School, Castor Valley Elementary School, and Shepherds of Good Hope - Hope Garden. To honour GS&G for their involvement in the community, they were awarded the Osgoode Ward Special Business Commendation Award “in recognition of outstanding volunteerism that has made significant contributions to ensuring residents have opportunities to become active and involved in the community.” GS&G provided a helping hand to Greely’s fire department. A pumping station was built on site to allow easy and quick access to fill their fire trucks with clean water to better serve the Greely area in emergencies. GS&G has established a Tom Thompson Memorial
Scholarship Fund (an award set-up for a long time friend and
employee) to encourage education and help support children or grandchildren
of their employees.
AWARDS The Ottawa Business Achievement Awards, presented by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, is an annual celebration of the best of the best that the Ottawa business community has to offer. GS&G was awarded GOLD in the category of Mid-Market Business of the Year for 2009. The category focuses on business growth, employee relations, customer service/quality, innovation, and community involvement. GS&G is honoured to receive recognition for their success and dedication.
Each year, the Ontario Stone, Sand, and Gravel Association (OSSGA) awards companies within the industry and GS&G is the proud winner of the Progressive Rehabilitation Award for 2008. This award recognizes ongoing progressive rehabilitation at a site in accordance to the original site plans and operational designs. GS&G transformed a once operational pit in to a recreational site with trees, grass, beach, playground area, volleyball court, boat launch, and barbeque area — A great place for a weekend getaway of nature and fun for family and friends of GS&G.
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
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In
1982, Brent and Donna Pyper began Greely Sand &
Gravel Inc. (GS&G). The family company has grown with strength and
determination delivered by the entire family and the dedicated employees
who work at GS&G. Some employees have been with GS&G from the
very beginning.
GS&G
is one of the forerunners in incorporating reusable waste into their
products, having opened their Greely Environmental Services
composting facility in 1999, which is the only privatized composting
facility in the Ottawa region. 
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