Commercial Marine Construction in Southeast Wisconsin

Commercial waterfront has its own demands. A marina, a resort or a business on the water depends on its shoreline to stay open and stay safe. When that shoreline needs work, the build has to fit the business, not the other way around. We build and replace seawalls, docks, piers and ramps for commercial waterfront across Southeast Wisconsin lake country.

Who this is for. This page is written for marinas, resorts, lake associations, businesses and other commercial waterfront owners. If your shoreline is part of how you serve customers or members, the work on it has to be planned around that. We build for the use your shoreline actually takes.

Scheduling around a business's season. A commercial shoreline usually cannot just shut down for the season. We plan the timing around your open season so the work happens in the right window and the waterfront is back in service when you need it. That means thinking about ice out, permit review time, and the order of work on a shoreline that has to keep working, not just the build itself.

Larger scale seawall and dock work. Commercial shoreline often means longer runs of seawall, heavier-duty docks, and ramps that take real traffic. We plan for the scale and the load. A marina dock takes more use than a residential pier, and a commercial seawall may protect more upland and face more exposure. We build for the conditions and the traffic that come with commercial waterfront.

Planning with permits in mind. Commercial shoreline work on navigable water is regulated by the Wisconsin DNR, and the rules are the same whether the shoreline is a home or a business. We plan, permit and schedule every commercial project around those rules, and we build the permit review time into the schedule. For the full picture, read our Wisconsin shoreline permits guide.

We plan around heavier use, deeper water and tighter schedules, and build structures meant to stand up to commercial traffic and Wisconsin winters.