Company
A commercial builder, operating since 1984.
Palladio Building Services is a commercial construction, renovation, and building maintenance company. We serve clients in banking, industrial manufacturing, logistics, professional services, places of worship, and other sectors that need their buildings done right and kept that way. We've been doing this work — under a different name — for 42 years.
A short history
How we got here.
Cardic Construction was founded in 1984 by Gerald Carlson. The company was continued by Lorne Strom, and today Palladio is led by Ian Strom, President, and Jos Vanhaastert, General Manager — with Lorne continuing as an advisor to the company.
Three generations of work. One standard, carried forward.
Why we rebranded
A new name for a new chapter.
In 2026, the company entered a new chapter under new leadership. Palladio is the name that chapter is written under — a continuation of what Cardic Construction has stood for since 1984, under a name chosen to match where the work is going.
The name comes from Andrea Palladio, the Renaissance architect whose buildings still stand five centuries later — not because he signed them, but because he built them on principles bigger than him. That's the kind of continuity we're building toward. Principles that outlast the people who hold them.
Values
Five things we hold ourselves to.
On every project. Every crew. Every contract.
We innovate.
Construction is an industry that rewards doing things the way they've always been done. We don't. We bring operational practices from outside the trade — scheduling discipline, transparent pricing, data-driven project management — and apply them to the way we build.
We operate in the open.
Our pricing is transparent. Our schedules are published. Our progress reports are written, not whispered. Clients see what we see.
We adapt to the project.
Every building is a different problem. We scope to the building, not to a template.
We're not interested in the standard way.
If the conventional approach is the best one, we'll use it. If it isn't, we won't — no matter how familiar it is to everyone else.
We obsess over efficiency.
Wasted material, wasted time, and wasted motion all show up in the final invoice. We don't accept any of them as inevitable.
Vision
Where this is going.
Palladio exists to operate a company that constructs and maintains places while striving for the highest standards in every area of its work.
In practice, that means we are building toward full vertical integration — from design, through engineering, through construction, through decades of maintenance — under one roof and one standard. It means scaling the company into work we haven't yet taken on: larger builds, longer-horizon contracts, and new service lines that round out what a client can rely on a single partner for.
Progress is a climb. The climb is the work.
About the name
Named after.
Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) was the Renaissance architect who proved that buildings could be rigorous and beautiful at the same time. His villas and churches across the Veneto are still standing — still working, still photographed, still studied — five centuries after he drew them.
Palladio designed from first principles: symmetry, proportion, materials true to the site, and a refusal to separate technical skill from aesthetic care. He wrote his principles down, in I quattro libri dell'architettura, so the next generation of builders could carry them forward.
We took his name because we hold ourselves to the same standard: every building a Palladio crew touches — whether it's a tenant improvement or a new build — should be done to a level that doesn't need to be redone.
We rebranded because the company evolved. Palladio is built to represent more than just who a few people are.