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Dexter Construction Company Limited
Dexter Construction is a privately held heavy civil contractor in Atlantic Canada and the flagship of the Municipal Group of Companies, delivering roadbuilding and paving, bridge and structural work, excavation and site development, pipe/utility work, demolition, aggregate supply, and airport runway construction. It bills itself as Eastern Canada's premier heavy civil contractor.
📍 Bedford, Nova Scotia, CanadaEst. 1961✓ 100% first-party verified
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Fairwinds Training & Development Inc.
Supplies
Named as a large-contractor client for leadership and HR programs
Stephen Gaudon
Trained at
Started his construction career at Dexter in Halifax before Alberta and Wolseley (83-91).
Inflector Environmental Services
Works with
Partnered on Barrington Street heritage facade separation project using track saw
Trim Landscaping Inc.
Works with
Trim sub-bids to Dexter on large streetscape projects like Argyle Street where Dexter is prime.
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Highway 104 Twinning (Sutherlands River to Antigonish)
CompletedConstruction delivered through Dexter Nova Alliance (DNA) — a consortium of Dexter Construction and Nova Construction with equity partner BBGI; DNA is responsible for 20-year operations and maintenance · $717.9M contract (P3 over 20 years); ~$364M construction value
38 km twinned/expanded between Sutherlands River and Antigonish; 24 new bridges, 2 interchanges, wildlife corridors. Substantial completion September 26, 2023. Contract value of $717.9M also reported by On-Site Magazine.
Highway 107/102 Southbound Overpass
CompletedDesign-build contractor for the Nova Scotia Department of Public Works (Harbourside Engineering provided structural/geotechnical and erection engineering under Dexter)
3-span, 120.8 m curved trapezoidal steel box girder on a 145 m radius. Won the 2025 CISC Steel Design Award for Excellence (Bridge Projects). Source is the project engineer of record (first-party to the engineering scope).
Highway 102 Aerotech Connector
CompletedContractor (Dexter Construction Co. Ltd., with the Municipal Group, for the NS Department of Public Works) · ~$70M (incl. $10M federal funding)
Five-kilometre connector from Trunk 2 in Wellington to Exit 5A of Highway 102 south of Enfield, opening to traffic early September 2025. Also confirmed by Government of Nova Scotia news release dated 2025-08-21.
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Dexter Construction was founded in 1961 and is the flagship operating company of the Municipal Group of Companies, a vertically integrated, privately held group headquartered in Bedford, Nova Scotia that has operated in Atlantic Canada for over 50 years.
SOURCE ▸Dexter describes itself as Eastern Canada's premier heavy civil contractor; its LinkedIn lists it as a privately held construction firm of 501-1,000 employees headquartered in Bedford, NS.
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