Braven Landscape & Construction

Braven Landscape & Construction is a Plympton outfit that started in 2021 and grew fast. The owner, Henrique Almeida, says on the company's own site that he had been working in landscape and construction since 2016 before launching his own company, and that the business now runs two trucks with multiple employees. Customers deal with him directly, and with Sue, who quotes jobs, and crew leads named Ricky and Matheus. The work homeowners describe most is hardscape. A 2023 customer had old wood retaining walls and brick walkways torn out and replaced with granite retaining walls, Stanstead granite steps and Unilock pavers; another 2023 customer had a wood retaining wall swapped for a concrete block wall; a 2024 customer had front-door concrete steps replaced with granite. A homeowner who had done hardscape work himself watched the whole patio install in 2023 and said they connected a house, garage and driveway sitting almost a foot apart in grade while keeping the pitch right, without cutting corners. Softscape shows up too: sod and loam over a steep, shaded Plymouth slope in 2025, edging and mulching finished in the rain in three hours in 2023, vinyl fencing and mulch beds in 2021, and spring cleanups. The most telling job is a 2025 walkway that another company had laid four years earlier and that had begun to dip. Braven found the underlying cause, repaired it without raising the price, and cleaned and re-laid the old pavers, moving them around when the mix of old and new looked disjointed. Two customers had a bad time and both said so plainly. A 2025 reviewer wrote that the company did not do what it said it would and called it disrespectful of their time. A 2024 reviewer said the work itself was reasonable but that they were not given a receipt with the information they had asked for, that problems in the work were reported, and that the company representative lacked professionalism. Both are worth raising directly: ask for a written scope and a proper invoice up front. One 2026 reviewer also warned that the company is busy enough that you may wait. Google shows 4.8 stars from 41 ratings and every comment on file comes from that one platform — the company's Angi profile has no reviews at all. For South Shore homeowners wanting retaining walls, granite steps or paver patios from a small owner-run crew, the record is strong; confirm the schedule, the paperwork and the licence and insurance details in writing before work starts.