A Women-Owned Utah Civil & Sitework Contractor
Cadoava is women-owned, Utah-based, and self-performing. We do our own excavation, grading, underground utilities, and concrete with our own fleet and our own crews — which matters on public work, where participation goals and schedule reliability both have to be satisfied by the same subcontractor.
Why ownership status matters on public work
Federally funded transportation and infrastructure projects carry Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation goals. Federal contracting has separate Women-Owned Small Business set-aside authority. State and municipal agencies in Utah frequently track and encourage similar participation on their own work.
For a general contractor bidding that work, a women-owned subcontractor who can actually self-perform meaningful scope is genuinely useful — it satisfies participation goals with real work rather than a pass-through arrangement, which is what agencies increasingly scrutinize.
We are not interested in being a nominal participant on someone's bid. We want the dirt.
What we self-perform
Self-performance is the part that makes us useful rather than administratively convenient. A single subcontractor carrying excavation through concrete means fewer interfaces, one schedule, and one party accountable when the ground doesn't match the plan.
- Mass excavation, cut and fill, and site preparation
- Rough and finish grading to engineered tolerance
- Underground utilities — water, sewer, storm, and dry utility conduit
- Concrete flatwork, curb and gutter, footings, and trough drains
- Erosion control and SWPPP implementation
- Land development from raw ground to build-ready lots
Credentials and capacity
We hold Utah E100 General Engineering and B100 General Building licenses, and we are insured and bondable. We own our equipment fleet rather than renting it by the job, which is what lets us hold a schedule when a project compresses.
Cadoava was founded in 2020 and is built on 23 years of construction experience. We've delivered sitework and underground utilities on hospitality, commercial, and multi-family projects across Utah and the wider Mountain West.
- Utah E100 — General Engineering Contractor
- Utah B100 — General Building Contractor
- Insured and bondable
- Company-owned excavation and grading fleet
- Based in American Fork, working Utah County, the Heber Valley, Park City, and beyond
For general contractors and agencies
If you're assembling a bid with participation goals and you need a sitework sub who can carry real scope, we'd like to see the plans. We can price excavation, grading, utilities, and concrete as one package, and we can tell you early where the civil design is going to be expensive to build.
If you're an agency or owner looking for qualified women-owned civil subcontractors in Utah, we're happy to provide references, licensing documentation, and bonding information.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Cadoava DBE or WOSB certified?
Cadoava is a women-owned company. Certification status varies by program and agency, and we're happy to discuss current standing and any certification a specific project requires — call (801) 310-5213 or email peter@cadoava.com.
Do you work as a subcontractor to general contractors?
Yes — that's most of our commercial work. We sub to GCs and developers on excavation, grading, underground utilities, and concrete, and we self-perform all of it rather than brokering it out.
Are you bondable?
Yes. We're licensed (Utah E100 and B100), insured, and bondable. We can provide documentation for a specific project on request.
What size projects do you take on?
We work everything from residential driveways to full commercial sitework packages and land development. Our project history includes hospitality, commercial, and multi-family sitework across Utah and the Mountain West.