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Zackery LeBeau
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A new company, run by people who are not new to the work
ZD Veterans Construction LLC was organized in Rhode Island on July 13, 2026. The company is that young. The trade is not.
Who runs it
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Dustin Vanluven
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Both founders are veterans, and the company is veteran owned and operated. We are not putting a branch insignia or a service record on a website until we can point at the paperwork that backs it.
TODO B8 Branch, service years, and whether a recognised veteran-owned status applies
What we are trying to do
We improve the communities we work in by doing the work right, treating customers fairly, investing in our people, and building a company worth handing down.
Where we want to end up
We want to be the excavation contractor Rhode Island builders call first. We know that is earned job by job, not claimed on a website.
Profit is necessary for growth and sustainability, but it is never our highest priority. Character, integrity, and stewardship come first.
Every road, house and building starts with somebody willing to put in work that will outlast them. That is the part of this trade worth showing up for.
What we hold ourselves to
Eight values, and what each one costs us
Values are cheap to publish. These are the eight we wrote down before we had a single customer, with the practical version of each one next to it.
- Integrity
- The number we quote is the number we bill. If we get something wrong, you hear it from us before you find it.
- Excellence
- Fill goes in as lifts and gets compacted even when nobody is standing there watching. The work under the surface is the work that lasts.
- Stewardship
- Someone else’s land, someone else’s money, someone else’s finished lawn. All three get treated that way.
- Safety
- Trenches get sloped or shored before anyone steps in. That is not a cost we negotiate down, on any job, for any schedule.
- Respect
- For the customer, for the neighbours who have to live next to the noise, and for the other trades whose work depends on ours being right.
- Accountability
- If we break something, we say so and we make it right. That has never needed a clause in a contract.
- Servant Leadership
- Lead by example is the first thing on our list of principles, and it means what it says. The work comes before the title.
- Family
- This is meant to be worth handing down. That changes what you take on and what you turn away.
How we run a crew
Four of the principles we hold each other to. They are about how people get treated on a job site, which turns out to be the thing that decides whether the work is any good.
- Lead by example.
- Teach before criticizing.
- Never stop learning.
- Protect the reputation of the company.
Check us yourself
A company this new cannot point at twenty years of jobs. What it can do is be easy to verify. Here is everything you need to look us up with the state, at no cost, in about a minute.
- Legal name
- ZD Veterans Construction LLC
- Entity type
- Rhode Island Limited Liability Company
- Organized
- Standing
- Active and in good standing, as of July 20, 2026
- Certificate
- 26070072530
Ask us the hard questions
What have you actually done. Who else can I call. What happens if you hit ledge. Those are the right questions for a company our age, and we would rather answer them now than after you have signed something.
Request a quote TODO B1 Phone number for the call link