Ceres Caribe was founded in 1998. Throughout its history, the company has provided construction, demolition, and environmental services for a variety of governmental agencies throughout the Caribbean and US territories. Ceres Caribe has hired and trained thousands of employees across the island over the past decades. This effort has helped families across Puerto Rico recover from disasters quicker and has assisted in making the island more resilient. Ceres is truly a leader in the industry.
Ceres has successfully planned and executed scores of emergency response projects in Puerto Rico. Ceres’ clients in Puerto Rico include:
In 2022 Ceres was contracted by LUMA for a $9.5M vegetation removal and management project. Along with a variety of vegetative debris, over 4,000 trees were cut, reduced, and processed on the island. Additionally, this project required knowledge of traffic control, high voltage utility systems, herbicides, and specialty tree felling. This project is on-going.
In 2017, both Ceres Environmental Services, Inc. and Ceres Caribe, Inc. supported the USACE’s Puerto Rico Blue Roof Mission under two separate contracts. The companies were assigned a total of 43,904 roofs.
Following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, Ceres installed 200+ temporary roofs per day. Based on comments at an after-action meeting sponsored by USACE following Operation Blue Roof in Puerto Rico, Ceres believes it is the only company that met the production schedule set by USACE in the Hurricane Maria Operation Blue Roof.
Ceres worked with 88 first-tier subcontractors in Puerto Rico in the 2017 Operation Blue Roof. During our performance of Hurricane Georges recovery work for the USACE in Puerto Rico, Ceres rapidly mobilized equipment and personnel from the mainland and operated 17 temporary reduction sites over an area of 3,000 square miles across Puerto Rico. Eventually, Ceres reduced, processed, and sorted more than 2.3M cubic yards of debris while simultaneously hauling and disposing of 1M cubic yards of debris (and processed material) and installing approximately 3,000 temporary roofs. Ceres management supplied multi-lingual project leadership and hired and directly managed more than 1,400 local employees. This project earned a high customer evaluation.
Under contract with the USACE, Ceres constructed two parks with athletic fields and forty-five steel and concrete structures in a remote, mountainous area in Puerto Rico. Ceres self-performed 90% of the work, as qualified subcontractors were not available due to the remoteness of the area.
Under contract with the U.S. Forest Service, Ceres constructed a parrot recovery aviary complex in the Caribbean National Rain Forest. Construction in a rain forest presents significant engineering challenges, including near-constant, heavy rainfall and a lack of subcontractor resources. Ceres built a main research building along with maintenance and storage facilities. All buildings were constructed with concrete and were designed to withstand hurricane-force winds. Work also included site work, clearing excavation, grading, roads, paving, utilities, and electrical.
