The real strength of any building doesn’t start with the first beam; instead, it begins with precise and thorough construction sitework. This process includes an array of steps, all coming together to create a blank canvas for your future building, ensuring your team and your investment are safe.
The task of efficient sitework has many important steps and requires advanced knowledge of regulations, clearing tactics, and even terrain analysis. No matter what your project is, Keeton Construction Services strives to offer professional construction sitework that will put your project on the direct path to success.
Laying the Groundwork for Your Site
When it comes to large-scale projects, sitework is crucial for a variety of reasons. The most important reason is that it helps create a safe work site for any construction personnel or heavy machinery. Our team analyzes each site’s unique hazards, and we are fully equipped and confident in making sure your site is ready to reach its full potential.
Sitework makes a worksite safer by leveling uneven ground. Crews will do this by adding or removing soil and ensuring it is fully compact, stable, and ready for your building plans. Sitework contractors can conduct geotechnical investigations to understand the exact composition of the land’s soil and what potential problems it could cause in the future. Even a slight gradient in the area can cause disastrous effects on your outcome, such as foundational cracking and instability, or even faulty drainage systems that lead to flooding.
Along with making sure the ground is sculpted and shaped correctly for your unique construction project, we also clear the site of all brush, rocks, and trees that need to be removed. In some cases, even a small rock or bush that is missed can injure your construction team or damage expensive equipment.
Construction Project Cost Savings
It’s a well-known fact that construction projects are costly. Preventing you from spending more valuable resources on issues that may arise or delays is another advantage of investing in quality construction sitework. Some common issues that cause delays include drainage issues, contaminated soil, a large amount of debris, or poor planning for the necessary access roads and layout of a site.
Solving these issues can be costly, skewing not only your budget but also your projected timeline. Construction sitework protects both your time and your budget, making your project as streamlined as possible.
Creating Results that Last With Sitework
A foundation is only as good as the soil you build it on. A lack of sitework or soil consideration can often cause weak or unstable foundations. Investment in meticulous planning and surveying of your project site will save you from a crisis down the line.
Using sitework as a means of ensuring your building’s longevity is especially important in Houston, where the high levels of flooding can cause increased erosion and drainage issues.
Key Considerations for Efficient Site Prep
A successful construction sitework project undeniably hinges on having precise and thorough physical preparation; however, a large part of the site design process is having efficient planning and management. It is important to understand that a plan requires much more than the blueprint that starts it all – it’s rolling with the punches and solving issues as they arise.
A vital aspect of orderly planning is keeping an updated and well-organized record of all documents. This could range from zoning permits to ecological land surveys of the site. Along with record keeping, planning for the unexpected will greatly help with preventing delays or unexpected expenses.
Precise Site Planning for Your Construction Project
We conduct construction sitework with incredible detail and diligence. Clearing the land of debris and vegetation to create a blank slate is just the first step. Next, our team utilizes years of experience to curate the development of your project’s infrastructure.
Mapping the Future Through Site Access Design
Learning the scope of how a building will function once it’s completed ensures that roads and parking lots are mapped out for optimal efficiency. How many people need to access it daily, how long they stay, and what equipment they may bring can all affect how a site is planned out.
Within the access control realm is also the matter of considering what early steps should be taken for security measures. Installing fences, as well as visible signage and warnings communicating the privacy of the site, can help prevent unauthorized entrances. Laying out the bones for well-organized and planned security measures can make the installation of advanced security systems easier and more effective in the future due to optimal camera angle opportunities and lighting arrangements.
Controlling the Flow By Constructing Effective Drainage Plans
Along with planning for the access of a construction site, the drainage plan is also crucial for preventing erosion or flooding. For maximum flood and erosion protection there are three main installation options:
- Surface drainage systems are gutters, ditches, or culverts used to catch water runoff. We install this option to control the direction of average amounts of water.
- Subsurface drainage means we install the water control below the ground surface. Some examples of this method are French drains, tile drainage systems, or gravel trenches. These drain water before it reaches the surface, lowering the water table and improving the quality of the soil.
- Some projects need larger-scale stormwater drainage systems. In that case, detention ponds or infiltration basins can help move and store major amounts of water for especially flood-prone sites.
Keeton Construction Services has been providing site construction services to Houston businesses since 2001, so we understand the importance of top-tier flood protection.
Sitework Specialization – Solar Panel Farming
Beyond construction sites and project planning, our team also offers specialized sitework for emerging investments like solar energy farms. For this type of project, we must execute extensive land work and perfect grading precision to secure the reflective panels at the exact angle needed for optimal sun rays. Additionally, installing major cables requires a high number of trenches. This calls for expert planning and attention to detail.
The Lasting Impact of a Solid Site Foundation
Although construction sitework ends when the forklifts start to roll in and the buildings start to rise, the impact of the meticulous planning will be evident. At its core, site preparation is the friction that builds momentum for the entirety of your project, no matter the size. At Keeton Construction Services, our help doesn’t end there. We strive to provide our valued clients with professional, dependable, and accurate work from start to finish. Since our beginnings, we have specialized in turnkey, completely customizable projects and consistently deliver the results our clients are looking for.
Start your next project with us today – contact us for a free construction quote!