Built for heavy industry. Open to any industry.

These are the sectors we know best. If your facility needs engineering, construction or maintenance and it isn’t listed here, talk to us anyway.

Industries we serve across Canada

Rice Brothers has spent decades inside industrial plants: chemical units, oil and gas facilities, water treatment works, food and beverage lines and, more recently, data centers. The skills carry from one to the next. A crew that can tie in a process line during a chemical plant turnaround can do the same in a dairy or a treatment plant, with the right procedures for that site.

That’s why this list is a starting point. What matters is whether your project fits what we self-perform: engineering and design, piping, mechanical, structural, electrical and instrumentation, HVAC, prefabrication and ongoing maintenance. If it does, the industry is a detail we’ll learn.

Our project experience shows the kind of work behind this page, and our areas served page shows how far we’ll travel to do it.

Our strongest industries

Where our crews have the most hours and our engineers have the most drawings. Each one has its own page.

Process piping at an oil and gas facility

Oil & gas

Upstream facilities, oil sands sites, refineries and upgraders. Brownfield tie-ins, turnarounds, sustaining capital and maintenance, planned around your production schedule.

Midstream gas processing equipment

Midstream & pipelines

Gas plants, compressor and pump stations, terminals and pipeline facilities. Years of midstream work in the Permian Basin carry straight over to the Montney and the rest of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.

Chemical plant lit up at dusk

Chemical & petrochemical

Process units, utilities and plant infrastructure, delivered by engineering and construction teams who understand the safety demands of a live chemical site.

Water treatment storage tanks

Water & wastewater

Municipal and industrial treatment plants, process piping, pumping and storage, from upgrades of existing facilities to new builds.

Stainless steel food and beverage processing line

Food & beverage

Sanitary process piping, equipment installs, line expansions and plant maintenance for processors, scheduled to protect food safety and uptime.

Rows of server cabinets in a data hall

Data centers

Electrical, mechanical and cooling infrastructure for data halls and campuses, with support from our sister company Data Infrastructure Solutions.

Wind turbine tower against a clear blue sky

Renewables & power

Solar, wind, battery storage and renewable fuels projects, plus power generation and utility work.

Technicians maintaining equipment inside a manufacturing plant

Manufacturing & plant services

Daily maintenance, capital improvements and major overhauls for manufacturing plants of every kind.

Experience that transfers

Industrial facilities have more in common than their products suggest. Pumps, piping, vessels, structural steel, electrical systems and controls show up in a refinery, a water plant and a food processor alike. What changes is the standard each one is built to and the procedures that keep its people and products safe. Our teams learn those standards before they start, so the work fits your facility from the first day.

Other industries we take on

If your project needs engineers, project managers and skilled crews who work safely inside an operating facility, it’s probably a fit. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you straight away.

What every industry gets from us

The sector changes. The way we run a job doesn’t.

Welder at work in an industrial fabrication shop

Not on the list? Ask us.

Tell us what the facility does and what it needs. We’ll give you a straight answer on whether we’re the right crew.