Verbeke Contracting Services

Protect your shoreline from the start. We design and install custom metal seawalls built to withstand Michigan's freeze-thaw cycles, wave action, and fluctuating water levels. Our team works with steel and aluminum seawalls, matching the material to your shoreline conditions, lake environment, and long-term goals. Every installation is engineered to meet EGLE requirements and permitted properly from day one.

From docks and boardwalks to pilings, breakwaters, and custom waterfront structures, we handle the full scope of marine construction. Our projects are built for Michigan's lakes, designed to handle ice heave, high water years, and heavy seasonal use, while complementing the aesthetic of your shoreline.

Full-service excavation for residential, commercial, and land development projects. We handle site prep, foundation digs, trenching, backfill, grading, demolition removal, and rough-in work with equipment sized for everything from tight lakefront lots to large development sites.

Water lines, sewer laterals, storm drains, culverts, and utility conduits: installed, repaired, or replaced. We handle underground pipe work for new construction, repair failing systems, and tie properties into municipal services with minimal disruption to the surrounding landscape.

Failing seawalls lead to lost land, flooded yards, and expensive damage. We repair cracked caps, replace corroded tiebacks, restore sinking walls, fill voids behind failing panels, and rebuild compromised sections. Whether your wall is showing early warning signs or needs urgent intervention, we assess the full system, not just the visible damage, and restore structural integrity.

When your shoreline is washing away, we restore it. Services include riprap installation, stone revetments, bioengineered solutions, beach restoration, and grading to redirect water flow. We balance structural protection with natural aesthetics and work within state and federal shoreline regulations.

Turning raw land into buildable property takes more than a bulldozer. We provide clearing, grading, earthwork, building pad prep, access road construction, and utility trenching, coordinated to keep your development on schedule and within budget.

Waterfront work in Michigan means navigating EGLE, local townships, and sometimes the Army Corps of Engineers. We manage the permitting process, prepare required documentation, and keep your project moving so you don't have to decode regulations yourself.

Extend the life of your investment with proactive maintenance. We offer seasonal inspections, cap repairs, anchor adjustments, backfill replacement, and minor repairs that prevent small issues from becoming major replacements. Recommended annually for waterfront properties exposed to ice, heavy wake, or shifting soil.​

A cost-effective, natural alternative to traditional seawalls. We source and place armor stone, fieldstone, and limestone riprap to protect banks, reinforce shorelines, and create durable, low-maintenance waterfront edges that blend into the landscape.

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Standing water, soggy yards, and flooded basements usually trace back to poor drainage. We design and install French drains, swales, catch basins, dry wells, storm drain tie-ins, and full yard drainage systems engineered for Michigan soils and precipitation patterns.