New Concrete Retaining Walls and Sidewalk for CAPREIT in Mississauga

The grounds of two residential towers in Mississauga, for CAPREIT: failing retaining walls demolished and replaced with new poured concrete walls, drainage behind them and a new sidewalk. Completed in 2025.
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Retaining Walls, Mississauga: the facts

Client
CAPREIT
Building
Grounds of two residential towers
City
Mississauga
Work
Retaining walls and sidewalk
Completed
2025

The work

Our crews demolished the failing retaining walls and removed the old concrete.

The new walls were formed, reinforced and poured on site: our crews set the reinforcing steel, built and braced the timber formwork, and placed and hand-finished the concrete. Drainage was placed behind the walls before backfilling.

A new concrete sidewalk was laid over wire-mesh reinforcement and hand-finished beside the walls, and the grounds were restored with new sod.

Before and after

  1. 01A retaining wall

    Timber formwork staked out around the excavated area
    A finished retaining wall, with mesh laid for the new sidewalk
  2. 02The grounds

    The new walls and sidewalk around bare, graded soil
    New sod inside the finished walls

Photographs

  • Walls beside a basement entrance
  • Formwork braced beside an entrance
  • Forms meeting the existing wall
  • The forms braced along the sidewalk
  • Forms along the edge of a lawn
  • Forms around a corner bed
  • Forms set around a planting bed
  • Forms set between the trees
  • Reinforcing steel inside the forms
  • Reinforcement ready for the pour
  • Concrete placed in the timber formwork
  • Concrete placed in the forms
  • A freshly poured wall
  • The top of a fresh pour
  • A poured wall through the trees
  • A poured corner by the entrance
  • Hand-finishing the new sidewalk beside a retaining wall
  • Finishing the new sidewalk
  • A finished retaining wall around a planting bed
  • The finished walls around a graded bed
  • The finished walls, with a worker inside
  • Laying the new sod
  • Watering the new sod inside the finished walls
Reviewed October 2026Canada Contractors Inc.