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SWINERTON BUILDERS swinerton.com
2022 REVENUE: $218.8M
YEARS IN HAWAI‘I: 20
EMPLOYEES: 330
Holey Grail Donuts in Ward Village was completed by Swinerton Builders in 2022. PHOTO COURTESY ASPERA PHOTOGRAPHY
S winerton Builders jumps two spots to No. 7 among Hawai‘i’s Top 25 Contractors, up from No. 9 last year — and the numbers tell the story. The general contractor, which specializes in ground-up, renovation and self-perform
Last year, industry peers honored the firm for two very different projects. Swinerton’s Ka‘anapali Beach Hotel Renovation Phase 1 project deliv- ered Ka‘anapali’s only beachfront restaurant directly on the sand and took GCA of Hawaii’s Build Hawaii Award of Excellence.
Aaron Yamasaki
Straub Rehab, com- pleted in 2022 by Swinerton, is one of the GC’s many Hawai‘i medical facility projects. PHOTO COURTESY ASPERA PHOTOGRAPHY
construction, earned $218.9 million in 2022, a gargantuan increase of 53 percent over $143 million earned in 2021. Swinerton’s Hawai‘i’ workforce has also grown to 330 employees this year, compared to 84 just a year ago. The company subcontracts 50 percent of its work, with 10 percent of all proj- ects in the public sector. All of the company’s projects in 2022 were private-sector build-outs and redevelopments, with work completed at Waikīkī Market at the Lilia Waikīkī, Holey Grail Donuts in Kaka‘ako and a rehab facility for Straub Medical Center. Ongoing 2023 projects and scheduled comple- tion dates include an O‘ahu distribution center for an unamed client, (expected completion in December), Target Windward (expected comple- tion in May), the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Student Success Center (expected completion in June 2024), as well as various self-perform projects.
Swinerton’s Queen Emma Apartments proj- ect repurposed an office tower for affordable housing and won the GCA Construction Risk Partners Build America Merit Award. Ben Steele, project executive for the Ka‘anapali Beach Hotel renovation, was promoted to Swinerton operations manager this year, and was joined by Gary Gordon, who was promoted to Swinerton field operations manager. “Construction activity continues to hold steady for our target markets despite the talks of a recession towards the end of the year,” says Aaron Yamasaki, Swinerton vice president and division manager. “Our clients and partners who have secured funding beforehand are moving forward with their projects. There are also a handful of projects that we see re-evaluated or timelines pushed back based on budgets. “However, we are optimistic.” – Brett Alexander-Estes
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