Richmond is where New Edge is based. Our yard is here, and for a Richmond homeowner that has a practical benefit: we can look at a job quickly, and we can take on smaller work here that would be hard to schedule an hour down the road.
The work is mostly homeowner work — driveways, patios, walkways, foundations and walls — on a housing stock that ranges from wartime shipyard cottages to new construction on the Marina Bay waterfront.
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Concrete in Richmond, at a glance
- Permits
- City of Richmond Building Division, at the Civic Center. Foundations, structural pours and retaining walls above the exempt height are permitted and inspected.
- Ground
- Soft bay mud and historic fill along the shoreline at Marina Bay and the Point; firmer alluvium inland; rising ground toward the hills at Richmond Heights and El Sobrante.
- Seismic
- The northern Hayward Fault passes through the Richmond–San Pablo area before continuing under San Pablo Bay. Shoreline fill is the liquefaction concern here.
- Housing stock
- Wartime and post-war housing from the Kaiser shipyard era, mid-century tracts, and newer waterfront construction at Marina Bay — a wide spread of foundation ages.
Richmond sits in Contra Costa County. Local facts last reviewed August 28, 2026.
Building on the Richmond shoreline
A lot of the Richmond waterfront is not original ground. Marina Bay and parts of Point Richmond sit on bay mud and historic fill placed over it — soft, compressible material that settles under load and is exactly the ground that liquefies in a large earthquake.
For concrete this is a base and drainage problem before it is a concrete problem. On soft ground, flatwork that was poured straight onto unprepared subgrade will settle and crack no matter how good the mix was, and a slab that ponds water will fail faster. We excavate, compact and build a proper base, and where the ground is bad we say so at the estimate.
Post-war housing and worn-out flatwork
Much of Richmond was built quickly, in and after the second world war, for shipyard workers. The houses have held up but the flatwork around them mostly has not — driveways from the 1950s that have cracked into pieces, walkways that have heaved, patios poured thin with no reinforcement and no joints.
This is a large share of what we do in the city: tear out the old slab, haul it away, fix the base underneath, and re-pour with real reinforcement and control joints. Our Richmond outdoor patio is a straightforward example of that, and if you are weighing your options on materials we compared concrete against pavers and asphalt.
Hillside lots and harder builds
East of the flats the ground rises — Richmond Heights, Mira Vista, and out toward El Sobrante — and the work changes to retaining walls, stepped foundations and driveways on grade.
The most demanding thing we have built here is a raised concrete bridge driveway spanning to a hillside house, with a waterproofing membrane and a full rebar mat under the deck and steel guardrails on top. That is not typical residential work, but it shows what the crew can build when a site calls for it.
Permits in Richmond
Richmond permits through its Building Division at the Civic Center. Foundation work, structural pours and taller retaining walls need a permit and inspection; replacing flatwork in kind is usually simpler, though work at the sidewalk or curb touches the public right-of-way and follows a different track.
We pull the permits for work that requires them. For the wider picture, see our guide to concrete permits across East Bay cities.
What Richmond calls us for
Driveways
Tear-out and replacement of failed post-war driveways, on a base built to last. See concrete driveways.
Patios & walkways
Backyard patios, paths and steps — the most common homeowner job in the city.
Foundations
Foundation repair and replacement, and new foundations for additions and ADUs. See foundations.
Retaining walls
Engineered walls with drainage for the rising ground east of the flats. See retaining walls.
Richmond projects
A sample of our Richmond work — the jobs we have photographed, not all of them.
Richmond Outdoor Patio
Richmond, CA
A modern backyard patio New Edge Concrete poured in Richmond in 2024, wrapping a new contemporary home.
View projectRichmond Bridge Driveway
Richmond, CA
An elevated concrete “bridge” driveway New Edge Concrete built for a modern hillside home in Richmond in 2024, working with general contractor Burton…
View projectWhere we work in Richmond
- Point Richmond
- Marina Bay
- Richmond Annex
- Richmond Heights
- Mira Vista
- Hilltop
- North & East
- Iron Triangle
- Park Plaza
- Atchison Village
- El Sobrante
Richmond questions
You are based in Richmond — does that make a job here cheaper?
It does not change our square-foot pricing, but it makes small jobs practical that would be hard to schedule further out, and it means we can usually get out to look at the work sooner.
My driveway has cracked into pieces. Can it be repaired, or does it need replacing?
It depends on whether the slab failed or the ground under it did. Hairline surface cracks can often be left alone; a slab broken into moving sections, or one that has settled, is usually a base problem, and patching the top will not fix it. We look underneath before recommending either.
Is the ground near Marina Bay a problem for concrete?
It is buildable, but it is not ground you pour on casually. Shoreline fill and bay mud are soft and they settle, so base preparation, reinforcement and drainage all matter more there than they do inland.
Do you handle the permit?
Yes, for work that requires one. Foundations, structural pours and taller retaining walls are permitted and inspected in Richmond, and we build that into the job so it does not land on you.
Working on something in Richmond?
We walk the site, measure it, and give you a free itemized estimate — no pressure, no guesswork off square footage.
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