About Universal Construction · Chilliwack Civil Contractors Since 2000
In 2000, Jeff and Dwayne pooled their money and bought a skid steer to rent out. Twenty-six years later, Universal is one of Chilliwack’s top civil contractors, and they’re both still running the company they started.
What We Do · Civil Construction in Chilliwack & the Fraser Valley
Everything from the ground down.
Three ways to work with us. Bring us in to plan it, hire us to prep it, or just call for the trucks and the material.
Consulting & Management
Land you’re looking at, a site that needs a plan, a project that needs someone to run it. Straight answers before the shovel.
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Complete Project Preparation
Utilities, roads, flood mitigation, clearing, demo, retaining walls, and earthworks. Raw land to build-ready, one contractor.
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Services & Supply
Excavation, backfill, trucking, dozer work, and the gravel to go with it. Our trucks, our operators, our dispatch.
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Owner-Operated Civil Contractor · How We’re Different
Run by the owners
Jeff and Dwayne are highly involved with every project site, so the decisions come from the people who own the company.
Family-business care, big-company capacity
A full fleet of dump trucks, excavators, and low-beds, and the same attention on a barn pad as a subdivision.
On time and on budget
We build the schedule around how the work really goes. Hundreds of repeat clients say it holds.
Safe, current, reinvested
A real safety program built on WorkSafeBC and OH&S practices. We value our people, our iron, and the members of our community.
26 Years of Civil Construction in the Fraser Valley
From side hustle to top three.
2000 · The skid steer
Bought to rent out. Within months a local developer asked the two of them to take on exterior concrete prep instead. Nights and weekends turned into a company.
The first machine
Dwayne and Jeff got their first $200,000 excavator on a rental-purchase. A dealer took a chance on two guys under 30, and the company got real.
GPS in the cab
In 2010 they became one of the first crews in the region to run GPS machine control. Operators work off a 3D model of the site, right in the cab.
Today · The optimum size
Big enough to take on a full subdivision, small enough that Jeff and Dwayne still have their finger on the pulse of every project. Universal’s focus is quality of service over quantity of jobs.
Owner-Operators Dwayne & Jeff
Jeff
The office side
Bidding, engineers, and problem-solving on site. Carpentry apprenticeship, then running federal construction projects by 27. Also a paid-on-call firefighter and certified rope-rescue technician, a credential that has saved clients real money on steep-slope work.
Dwayne
The dirt and iron side
The operator expert. Fleet, dispatch, logistics, the people on the machines, and the problem-solving when the ground doesn’t match the drawings. Came up through pipeline and foundation work, still running the iron after 26 years.
Jeff, co-owner
A Family-Run Construction Company
The next generation is already on site.
Friends first
Jeff and Dwayne have been friends since they were kids. They promised each other a business by 30, and they’ve run it together for 26 years.
Josh & Colton
Jeff’s and Dwayne’s sons, both in the field with ownership stakes and just as much passion as the founders who built it.
Chilliwack raised
Both owners grew up here. The roads and subdivisions they build are in their own backyard, and they build them that way.
The name
Suggested by a family member. They wanted a name that said they could do it all, from the ground down. Twenty-six years later, it still fits.