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paralleled building quality on time
and within budget. Decades of ac-
cumulated experience has given
the company the ability to meet
the most stringent demands set
by its clients. As a result of this,
Pascale Construction diversified
and started executing higher value
projects. It now handles the most
complex assignments with ease
and exceeds the expectations of
its customers time and again.
Commenting on the company’s de-
cision to broaden its portfolio, Fred
Pascale says, “We have diversified
quite dramatically over the years
but initially we had 15 office staff
and 20 tradesmen and labourers
on site. This grew to about 45 in the
mid 80’s to late 80’s when things
started to pick up quite a bit. In
1991-92 there was a bit of a reces-
sion and when pre-cast came into
the scene that also took a lot of the
masonry and brickwork out of the
projects. A lot of the projects that
used to be brickwork and block-
work were designed in pre-cast”.
The company treated the slow-
down in the 1990’s as an oppor-
tunity and diversified into building
projects. Its planning and execution
skills were put to good use and with
each completed job, its reputation
grew and resulted in more orders.
Fred Pascale describes the
growth of the company, “Because
of the recession in the early 90’s
I diversified into commercial con-
struction. From a small enterprise
in commercial construction we
have now grown to a situation
where we have about 35 people
employed plus the sub-contrac-
tors. Our current turnover is about
$35 million. Most of our projects
are in the $5 to $15 million brack-
et with one or two projects in the
$10 million range and two or three
in the $4 to 7 million range.
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