Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · Serving Atlantic Canada since 1998 Carpenters Local 1588 · Union shop
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Commercial & Institutional

Buildings Atlantic Canada depends on.

Mars Builders is a Nova Scotia general contractor delivering schools, clinics, light industrial and municipal retrofit projects. Three generations of trades, one standard of work, and a name we put on every truck.

1998Established
140Employees
$78MAnnual volume
$40MBonding capacity
What we build

Four sectors. No residential.

We stay inside the work we do well. That focus is why our superintendents have seen your building type before, and why our schedules hold up under a real review.

Education

New schools, gymnasium and science-lab retrofits, phased summer work in occupied buildings.

Healthcare

Clinics and medical centres, including infection-control protocols and medical gas coordination.

Light Industrial

Distribution, logistics and manufacturing facilities on tight delivery windows.

Municipal

Fire halls, civic facilities and building-envelope retrofits for public owners.

Selected projects

Work currently on the boards.

A representative sample of active and recently completed contracts.

Bedford Commons Medical Centre

Bedford, NS · Healthcare

Four-storey medical centre with clinical fit-out, full medical gas distribution and a phased handover to the tenant health authority.

Contract value$22.4M
StatusIn progress

Burnside Logistics Park — Phase 2

Dartmouth, NS · Light industrial

Distribution facility expansion with tilt-up envelope, dock levellers and site servicing across a live operating campus.

Contract value$31.0M
StatusOn schedule

Truro Regional High School — Gym Retrofit

Truro, NS · Education

Structural and envelope upgrade to an occupied school, sequenced around the academic calendar with a hard September completion.

Contract value$6.4M
StatusSubstantial completion

Sackville Fire Hall No. 2

Lower Sackville, NS · Municipal

Replacement fire hall with apparatus bays, decontamination suite and emergency standby power.

Contract value$9.1M
StatusTendered
Safety & people

Nobody gets hurt. Everything else is negotiable.

We are a union shop and we build like one. Our field leadership is long-tenured, our subtrades come back job after job, and our safety record is the first page of every prequalification we submit — not an appendix.

Contact

Invitations to bid and general enquiries.

Send tender documents and addenda to our estimating group. For prequalification packages, please include your safety certification and bonding letter.

Mars Builders Co.
Head Office
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Canada

Estimating & enquiries
info@marsbuilders.ca