Assessing an economic outlook and its implication for levels of construction activity is key to aggregate producers in predicting future demand for their product. Clayton Research has assisted many aggregate producers with their strategic planning in this respect, in addition to providing input on the economic feasibility and market potential of particular sites, performing economic analyses of site re-use and assisting in site re-designations.

Assessing future levels of construction provides our clients with input into site location analysis and internal planning processes.

Provide input on the economic feasibility of proposed sites through assessment of the physical and market potential for aggregates.

Perform economic and financial impact analyses for site re-development/re-designation.

Some examples of aggregates industry assignments undertaken by Clayton Research are outlined below:

Clayton Research was part of a multi-disciplinary team brought together by the Ministry of Natural Resources to assess the future of the aggregates industry in Ontario. Clayton Research's role was to assess the economic outlook and its implications for levels of construction activity and the demand for aggregates.

This paper, prepared for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, revisited the projections produced as part of the State of the Resource Study in light of the pronounced economic downturn of the early 1990s and revised population projections.

This paper was presented at a workshop for the aggregates industry.

An assessment undertaken of the market demand for a proposed new quarry in Caledon.

For the past several years, Clayton Research has provided its outlook for the industry at APAO's Annual General Meeting.

This was a five-year outlook prepared for the 1999 APAO General Meeting.

This study undertaken for the Ontario Geological Survey assessed the geological and market potential for aggregates from the Lake Superior shoreline. Clayton Research's role on the multi-disciplinary team was to provide input on the economic feasibility and market potential.

Alternate Uses for Depleted Quarries and Assistance with Re-designations

Clayton Research has been involved in several economic analyses of alternate uses for depleted quarries/pits and assisted in re-designations, including: an economic impact analysis for a quarry site in Burlington that the owner sought to have re-designated from industrial to residential uses, a market study for an innovative manufacturing facility on a depleted gravel pit site in Durham, and an economic and financial impact analysis for the re-development of a quarry in Streetsville.

Patricia Arsenault, Senior Vice-President, is a leading economic analyst for the aggregates industry. Read more about Patricia Arsenault and other senior staff members.