Briar and Ryan Beers are a construction power couple that can’t be stopped. After earning a civil engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, Briar built her career as a senior project manager before taking the leap into ownership at Cutting Edge Consulting (CEC), an industrial construction company focused on bridge construction and rehabilitation, mobile crane services, pile driving, welding, fabrication, and more. Inside the business, she helped build the backbone: developing the safety program that led to COR certification, building out project management and estimating systems, and supporting rapid growth from a single employee to more than 60 workers. She’s also a visible advocate for women in construction—mentoring, teaching, showing up for Chamber of Commerce work, and staying active in community events and local shows.

Ryan’s path is the field-to-boardroom version of the same story. He started as a high school labourer, moved through mechanic work and welding school, then stacked credentials as a welder, ironworker, and Red Seal crane operator. Today, as COO at CEC, he’s the outside-the-box engine behind operations—the person people call when the problem is messy and the stakes are high. Colleagues say his mindset is contagious: “every obstacle has an answer,” and Ryan will find it. Together, they’ve helped scale CEC from one crane in 2017 to 125+ employees, 35+ cranes, and two branches—built on the kind of values they both lead with: Safety, Quality, Integrity, and Culture.