Crevier Mancini Construction and Leeswood Design Build are two of Québec and Ontario’s leading providers of general contracting services. Crevier Mancini Construction has been serving the province of Québec since 2003, specializing in multi-residential, industrial, commercial, interior fit-ups and custom homes. Leeswood, has been operating since 1992, providing high quality designbuild services and delivering successful projects across Canada. Over the years, both companies have grown on the back of repeat business and have developed reputations as industry leaders in quality, innovation, and customer service. In 2021, leaders from both Crevier Mancini and Leeswood came together and decided to combine their expertise. Together they founded Crevier Mancini Leeswood Construction, a top construction company catering to the Québec and Ottawa markets. The two companies first worked togetherontheFordDistribution Facility in Casselman, Ontario, a moderate 530,000-squarefoot facility valued at roughly $80 million. Since completing that project, Crevier Mancini Leeswood has grown and expanded rapidly, according to Francesca Mancini, one of the company’s three founders and partners. “Within our two years together as a group, we have landed over $350 million of work, and have grown our team exponentially,” Francesca says. “We started off with just three people in the office and grew to about 15 people in the office and over 25 people on site.” Francesca believes one of the main drivers of the company’s rapid growth is the experience of their leaders. The company was co-founded by Francesca herself, her business partner’s Emmanuel Crevier, and Domenic Fabiano, all industry veterans backed by decades of experience and strong relationships with local industry stakeholders. The right people in the right places CML CONSTRUCTION
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Francesca, for instance, has worked for multiple large general contractors and developers in the greater Montreal area. Over the course of her career, she has been involved in all aspects of the construction business, from pre-construction, to design, leasing, construction, and property management. Over the past 15 plus years, she has been a part of many industrial projects, office fit-ups, and large commercial projects, and has built strong relationships with a long list of clients, industry suppliers, and subtrades. Emmanuel is a highly skilled tradesperson who has mastered all aspects of construction from the ground up. Over the course of his 25-plus-years in the industry, he has built mid to high-end custom homes, large commercial and industrial projects, interior fit-ups and more. Before starting Crevier Mancini Construction and teaming up with Francesca, he also ran a successful drywall company. To this day, Francesca says he’s “on site and in his construction boots 95 per cent of the time,” which is rare for a partner in a large construction company. “Having a partner with boots on the ground really makes a difference in construction,” Francesca says. “He sees what’s going on at all times and ensures that the quality we expect is being delivered. His personal involvement has really helped us grow.” Domenic has more than 35 years’ experience in the construction and real estate development sectors, and throughout his career has developed and constructed over 20 million square feet of industrial facilities, mixed use office buildings, residential and CML CONSTRUCTION
commercial projects. He’s an expert in conducting extensive due diligence in geotechnical and environmental requirements. He has also been involved in managing ministry approvals, utility connectivity and has a trusted network of subtrades, suppliers, and professionals. “All three of us came to the table with really good reputations in the construction industry, and we brought with us a lot of really strong professional and personal relationships,” Francesca explains. “We were also fortunate to join forces at a time when several of our excolleagues became developers. They had worked with us in the past at our past employers, so they knew what we’re capable of providing as expertise, they trusted us, and they gave us their work.” “Of course, we had to prove ourselves,” she adds. “That’s exactly what we did. We started with one project and our growth has spiralled from there.” Another key member of the Crevier Mancini Leeswood team is Tony Lucadamo, their Vice-President of Estimation and Design. Francesca also shares credit for the company’s swift success with him: “Tony brings an extreme wealth of knowledge to the estimation side of the company, and his relationships with subtrades have been invaluable,” Francesca says. “Those relationships have had a huge impact on our business. He’s been a key contributor for us.” Speaking of relationships with trades, Francesca further credits the rapid growth of Crevier Mancini Leeswood to their talented team of THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
subcontractors and suppliers: “We’ve been successful because we’ve hired the right trades,” she explains. “Our alliances are extremely important. We work with key trades in the industry, and we work hard to match the right trades to the right jobs. Over our many years in the industry, we’ve built some longstanding relationships with our trades. We know what they’re good at, what their teams are capable of, and what projects are right for them, to serve our clients expectations.” “Domenic has relationships with trades going back over 35 years, Emmanuel over 20 years, and I started over 15 years ago,” she adds. “I am still dealing with some of the same trades that I made my first phone calls to when I started in this business.” One example of a long-lasting alliance is with Métautek – one of Québec’s industry leaders when it comes to the design, manufacture, and installation of wrought-metal works and metal structures. Métautek has been operating since 1986, and in all that time they have remained committed to the success of each project they undertake. Over the years, their technology and capabilities have evolved considerably – they now operate from a 48,000-squarefoot plant, they are supported by a dedicated team of more than 75 employees, and their automated assembly line allows them to process more than 12,000 tons of steel per year – but their commitment to clients has always remained the same. According to Francesca, that kind of consistency is what Crevier Mancini Leeswood Construction values in their alliances. She reiterates that their ability to rely on Métautek and alliances like them has played a key role in facilitating their growth. CML CONSTRUCTION
Different challenges Inrecentmonths,CrevierMancini Leeswood has completed two large industrial buildings developed by Rosefellow, whose co-founders are Sam Tsoumas and Mike Jager. The first being a 250,000-squarefoot industrial building for Sleep Country Canada and Steve Madden Canada, and the second being a 320,000 square foot industrial building located in Beauharnois, Quebec. Currently under construction is a third industrial building in Beauharnois, measuring 420,000-square-feet. “Sam and Mike gave us our first project; they had the opportunity to bid on the Ford Distribution Facility and trusted us to work with them,” Francesca says. “This was a huge success for both our companies when we were awarded the contract.” “We pulled off a tight schedule on that distribution facility, and there were a lot of surprises along the way,” Francesca recalls. “We worked through THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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those challenges efficiently and collaboratively, and at the end of the day we delivered the project on time. I believe that really earned the client’s trust, and that’s why they are a repeat client.” Very recently, Crevier Mancini Leeswood also broke ground on a new 206,000-squarefoot data centre for Cologix, located in the Technoparc of Ville Saint Laurent. The project, called MTL-8, represents one of Cologix’s greenest and most sustainably designed data centers to date. It will be a LEED Gold certified facility and will use renewable energy power from Hydro Québec to reduce overall impact on the environment. “We love it when we get the opportunity to do sustainable projects,” Francesca says. “They are complex and bring different challenges. Helping reduce our carbon footprint is important to us, and that makes this project very exciting.” This project is also exciting, she adds, because it’s their first Data Centre, so it means the world that the client is putting their trust in them: “To be chosen for this project is an honor for us,” she says. “We had to build a relationship with the client. We showed them what we could do, we demonstrated we had the resources, we said ‘we can do this’ – and they chose us.” Moving forward, the vision for Crevier Mancini Leeswood is to continue taking on different challenges, including more large industrial projects, data centers, and multi-residential projects (they currently have 166 apartment units under construction for Legacy Development Group). By THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
proving themselves on those projects, they hope to continue growing and expanding at a steady rate. “We don’t want to take on too much too fast,” she explains. “I think it’s very important that we put the right players in the right places in our company first. We’re never going to take on a project if we don’t think we can execute it properly. Our name and reputation are too important to us. We’ve always counted on repeat business, and we never want to jeopardize that.” “We want to grow, but at a realistic pace,” she sums up. “We want to take on jobs we know we can deliver to a very high standard, and we want to build longstanding repeat relationships with our clients as a result.” A REASSURING PRESENCE FROM COAST TO COAST CML CONSTRUCTION
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