Service area
Peninsula industrial and office properties, many of them on soft, low-lying ground along the bay.
We work on industrial, office and retail properties in San Mateo County from our office across the Bay in Oakland. The county runs from the industrial and logistics hub at Brisbane and South San Francisco down the Peninsula, through office and retail corridors, to the more suburban cities in the south.
A lot of the commercial property here sits on low-lying ground close to the bay, some of it fill. More than anything else, that shapes how pavement holds up on the Peninsula, and it's something we plan for on every project here.
On the ground
Local conditions, not a template with the place name swapped in.
Much of the flat land along the bay in northern San Mateo County is low-lying and, in places, fill placed over soft bay mud. Ground like that settles, and it settles unevenly.
Pavement follows the ground. Low spots form and hold water, and once water is standing on the surface it works into the aggregate base and turns a settlement problem into a structural one. Correcting the slope is usually cheaper than repairing water damage over and over.
The Peninsula's industrial and logistics properties take concentrated loads, like trailer landing gear, container corners and tractors turning at low speed, instead of the spread-out loads a parking lot is designed for.
At Bay Medical Co. on Valley Drive in Brisbane, we removed and rebuilt 27,790 SF of pavement at two depths, 4 inches and 6 inches, based on what each area actually carries. Building it all to the deeper section would have cost more without any added benefit, and building it all to the shallower one would have failed early where the loads are heaviest.
Fog and cool, damp mornings on the coastal side of the county push back the start of temperature-sensitive work. Seal coat in particular needs a dry surface and temperatures above roughly 50°F to cure and bond.
In practice, this shortens the working day more than the season. It's worth planning around early and late in the year, when a late start and an early drop in temperature can cost most of a shift.
Peninsula industrial tenants usually can't pause operations for pavement work, so there's a firm limit on how long an area can be out of service.
The Bay Medical replacement, nearly 28,000 SF of removal, base preparation, paving and striping, took three days and was delivered as scheduled and within budget. With a window that tight, there's no time to make up, so we get the sequencing right before we mobilize.
Work delivered here
Questions
Yes. Our completed work there includes the Bay Medical Co. replacement in Brisbane.
On low-lying Peninsula sites, it's usually settlement rather than surface wear. The fix is to restore the slope, often with a targeted overlay rather than a rebuild, so water reaches the drains instead of sitting on the surface.
It depends on the loads, the subgrade and the base beneath it. It's usually better to price different depths for different areas than to use one thickness across the whole site. We'll walk your yard with you and offer a few options.
Every project in San Mateo County is run from Forticon's office at 1300 Clay Street, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 · (510) 328-3230
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Send the address and what you are seeing. An estimator will walk the site and tell you what is actually failing before quoting anything.
