Schools are just the start for Montreal development management firm Kodem

Benjamin Sternthal said he’s always had a love of building.
“As a four-year-old, I was in my sandbox all the time, I had the best Tonka truck collection that any kid could ever have,” he said. “I spent all my days building sand castles and really nothing has changed since then, except the projects are real projects; the trucks have engines; and I use reinforced concrete, not sand, to build these days.”
These days, Sternthal is the president of Kodem, a development m