Keeping your facilities and communities safe, connected and secure with reliable forward-thinking technology.
Access, privacy and continuity obligations that do not bend for a construction schedule.
Schools and campuses where lockdown and notification have to work on the first attempt.
Civic buildings, detachments and public works with procurement rules attached to every line.
Substations, plants and unstaffed sites where nobody is there to notice.
Band offices, health centres, water treatment and community infrastructure.
Multi-tenant and mixed-use buildings running to a construction programme.
“They picked up the phone at two in the morning, and someone was on site before sunrise.”
gawáŋ
gah-WAHNG/ɡəˈwãː/
A constructed word
It joins two languages on purpose.
Gawáŋ is a constructed word. It is not lifted from a dictionary, and it does not belong to a single language. It joins the beginning of an Anishinaabe verb to the end of a Dakota one, so that both languages spoken across this territory are carrying the name at the same time.
ganawendan
gah-nah-WEN-dun
To care for something and keep it safe.
In Anishinaabemowin this verb carries an obligation, not a service. You keep something because it was entrusted to you. The name takes its opening syllable, ga-.
awáŋyaŋka
ah-WAHNG-yahng-kah
To guard something and watch over it.
In Dakota this is active watching: eyes on it, over time, on purpose. The name takes the stressed middle, wáŋ, which is also where the accent and the nasal ending come from.
gawáŋ
gah-WAHNG
Two languages, one word, one promise.
These words are a promise to our clients and part of our culture. We care about the people we work with, and we take pride in supporting what we build for them.
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