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April 2015

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with some civil works," he says. "To give you

an example, we build mass residential hous-

ing for the Housing Development Corpo-

ration here in Trinidad, where the projects

would range from 400 houses in one project

to probably 600 or 800."

The company recently completed a major

housing complex in St. Lucia and is cur-

rently building the first stage of Freedom

Bay, which is a luxury resort beneath the

famous Piton Mountains in the country's

southwest. They are also currently working

on major projects for the Government of the

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, includ-

ing a 600-house residential development in

Princess Town and a major tertiary educa-

tion building in Chaguanas. The latter is a

design-build project valued at approximately

$28 million USD that was completed a full

year ahead of schedule.

"Most of our projects now are design-build,"

John says. "We have developed our organiza-

tion over the past two or three years to ac-

commodate the procurement of such works.

We're moving from the more traditional ap-

proach to the design-build approach, so we