Commercial concrete contractor for sitework

On a parking lot, business park or apartment community, the concrete work is the site concrete around and through your pavement: the pieces that hold the asphalt edge, move water away and get people from their cars to the door. When one stops doing its job, the asphalt next to it is usually the first thing to show it.

• Curb and gutter along drive aisles, islands and the property edge
• Valley gutter carrying runoff across drive aisles
• Sidewalks and walkways between parking, entrances and the street
• Driveway approaches connecting the property to the street
• Concrete parking stalls, including ADA stalls and access aisles poured to the required slope
• Accessible curb ramps and path-of-travel concrete

Curb and gutter collects runoff from the pavement and carries it to the drains. When a gutter settles or breaks, water sits against the asphalt edge, soaks into the base and the pavement beside it starts to fail. Valley gutter carries water across a drive aisle without a raised curb in the way.

Barrier curb is used where vehicles shouldn't cross, rolled curb where they can, and integral curb and gutter is poured as one piece. On the street frontage, the city standard usually decides the profile.

On flatwork, the finish, joints and slope decide whether a walkway drains, stays flat and stays free of trip hazards. We place joints so the slab cracks where it's meant to, give it enough slope to shed water within accessible cross-slope limits, and use a broom finish for slip resistance.

The driveway approach is the concrete between the street and your property. Every vehicle crosses it, often at an angle and over a change in grade, so approaches tend to wear out before the parking lot does. They're almost always in the public right-of-way, so they need a city permit and are built to the city's standard plan.

Many concrete problems are really drainage problems: a gutter with a low spot, a walkway without enough slope, an approach that tips water toward the building. We set lines and grades before anything is poured, so the new work drains to the right place and meets the existing pavement flush. Sidewalk, curb and approach work along the street needs a city permit and inspection.

Concrete gains strength for weeks. A new sidewalk can usually take foot traffic within a day or two; cars and trucks need longer. We set hold times for each job and phase the work, one entrance or one run of curb at a time, so the property keeps working.

We price concrete from a site visit, not a rate card.

• Quantity, and whether it's one continuous run or many small areas
• Demolition and haul-off of existing concrete and asphalt
• Subgrade condition and base replacement
• Inspections and traffic control in the right-of-way (permit fees are not included in our proposals)
• Asphalt patch-back where new concrete meets existing pavement

Where concrete meets asphalt is where problems tend to show up. Because we do both sides of that joint, you get one team responsible for the whole job, one schedule and one mobilization instead of two.