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84 85 ACE ENGINEERING LTD. ACE Engineering Ltd. A CE Engineering Ltd. is a private, limited liability company incor- porated in Dominica in 1997by three engineers who worked at DOWASCO, the local water and sew- age company. “We were all providing engineering consultancy to the private sector,” says Anthony Le Blanc, one of the original, shareholding partners and one of the company’s current Directors.“We decided to consolidate our activities and form a company. In 1998,we all moved from the wa- ter company and two of us started working in a modest home office in Trafalgar, and in 1999,we got involved in construction because some of our clients wanted us to do design and build, but that was our strategy, anyway.” “In 2000,we decided to relocate to Roseau, the capital, in order to be a major construction sub- contractor of SERT, a French company contracted for one lot of the RoseauWater and Sanitation Project,”Le Blanc continues. The RoseauWater and Sanitation Project,which was conceptual- BUILDING DOMINICA The company also continues to innovate and look for more efficient ways of doing things.... Le Blanc adds that staying solvent means staying on top of the nuts and bolts of the construction business.