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mary contractor for the market, Cavalier Construction,
and all the various subcontractors.” A reward for the
performance on the market was the government con-
tract for construction of the critical care block at the
Princess Margaret Hospital.
According to Chief Financial Officer Steven B. D´Alewyn,
the company’s workforce stands near 40 full-time em-
ployees, alongside a roster of field laborers who come
and go with projects – like health/safety officers, en-
gineers and property surveyors – and are part of an
extensive network of available workers.
As larger projects are awarded, he said, project man-
agers and superintendents are hired on, too.
Operations are housed in a single Nassau facil-
ity, though the geographic footprint for services has
stretched as far as Turks and Caicos – about 420
miles to the southeast – and consideration was given
to an ultimately abandoned project in St. Kitts, which
lies another 600 miles away from Cavalier’s home.
“We do look at further afield,” D´Alewyn said. “We
don’t necessarily restrict ourselves to the islands, but,
obviously, logistically it’s a different proposition mobi-
lizing in another country.”
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