Royal Contracting Co. Ltd.

4 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 5 ROYAL CONTRACT ING CO. LTD Homes, Royal Contracting built lots for about 3500 homes from about 1990 to 2003. Two years ago, Castle & Cooke started another project that is scheduled to last for 10 years. That also has about 3500 homes with commercial areas, an industrial park, and other facilities including schools and parks. Royal Contracting President Leonard Leong reports, “We’re hoping to be there for a decade. We have a good working relationship with them and our work is of great quality. Also, we’re very conscious of their schedule because like any developer they have targets on how many homes they want to produce, and we’ve been able to satisfy them.” Another key client of Royal Contracting is D R Horton – one of the biggest homebuilders in the nation. “We’ve been working with them for at least 10 years,” Leong says, “and about four years ago, we started on a project here on the island of Oahu and that’s scheduled to last for 20 years. Their plan is to build 11,000 homes.” While willing to look at any non-traditional job, Royal Contracting is currently working more in the private sector, with the long-term housing development projects taking up about 75 to 80 percent of their capacity at present. Leong shares, “We very much appreciate the work that Castle & Cooke Homes and D R Horton send our way and we hope that by working with us they will be successful in their endeavors.” Core values are the foundation of Royal Contracting’s success. Above all, they always give quality work, earning a good reputation with inspectors and engineers who don’t want homeowners having to worry about manhole covers and the pavement sinking under roads or their sewer being clogged because of failing infrastructure. Leong attests, “We’re happy and proud of the fact that this doesn’t occur on our projects. We could be starting on a subdivision

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