Port Royal Street Coastal Revetment Project

This project was part of the Jamaica Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project, funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund, with the mandate to improve the country’s resilience to climate change. It included rehabilitation and raising 1km of existing roadway, construction of a 1km composite seawall and armour stone revetment structure, upgrading storm water drainage features, and installation of a 4.7m wide boardwalk to improve the site’s aesthetics and promote recreational activity along the shoreline. An 80m fishing beach was also created for fisherfolk in the area as well as a pedestrian bridge to span Barnes Gully.

The contractor was a JV between S&G Road Surfacing Materials Ltd. and Smith Warner International Ltd.  Construction was completed successfully over a two-year period during the height of the covid pandemic between two vulnerable communities with competing sociopolitical interests. As part of the construction services, we value engineered several elements of the project for cost optimization.