Business View Magazine | May/June 2022

26 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 5 acting C elebrating 60 Years of excellence in infrastructure construction, Royal Contracting Co. Ltd has a well-earned reputation for its exceptional work on the Hawaiian islands. Taking on unique and often challenging projects are all in a day’s work for this seasoned team of professionals. Royal Contracting was started in 1961 by two men who had years of experience working in the construction industry. Like most contracting companies, they were small and started out doing subcontracting work like helping a larger building contractor lay a water or sewer line. As they gained financial strength, they acquired bonding capacity, so they were able to bid on various, mostly government, jobs – city, state, and federal sources provided revenue and work for their crews. Later on, they ventured out into the more commercial market and were very successful. Their reputation grew with them and engineering firms would include them on their bid list. This opened up quite a bit of opportunity. With the commercial work and the public sector work, they continued to grow and became involved with site development – building roads for subdivisions and commercial shopping centers, etc. In the last 25 years, 50 percent of the work has been on private projects, such as subdivisions. For one particular client, Castle and Cooke AT A GLANCE ROYAL CONTRACTING CO. LTD WHAT: A leading construction firm specializing in subdivision/infrastructure projects WHERE: Based on Oahu, Hawaii TILL