Project: roadside retaining wall for Makiki Heights

Swan Builders can provide roadside retaining walls with a minimum of disruption to the area and its traffic. Keeping our island roads open does, sometimes, mean closing them for a while to improve conditions.

When a hill slides or crumbles onto the street too often, a roadside retaining wall is often an effective and economical solution. In the case of this project, we also were able to provide plenty of custom faux stone treatments using texture and color — a kind of sculpture, really. The end result looks like a natural stone outcropping in the neighborhood, just more island beauty… unless one stops to look very closely.

  • Photo: Oahu roadside retaining wall in Makiki Heights

We manage as many facets of this type of project as the job requires. We are prepared to shoulder most or all of the work, but we are equally happy to collaborate with design committees, government offices, other trades, and other relevant parties. Unlike many other kinds of jobs, roadside work can include things like…

  • permits, lane closures
  • safety, traffic
  • deliveries, crew parking
  • excavation, forms, steelwork
  • shotcrete application, texture and color
  • roadbed care, cleanup, dumping

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