6 Factors That Determine the Success of Commercial Excavation

Commercial projects are usually massive in nature and hence often need service providers with multiple areas of expertise to complete. A very crucial part of any major commercial project is the excavation team as they usually help to lay the foundation for every other stage of the project.

Some of the areas of expertise that call for the use of commercial excavation include:

• Storm water management
• Excavations for swimming pools and ponds
• Digging trenches
• Digging building foundations
• Grading building sites or sites for roadwork
• Land clearing
• Excavating for septic tanks
• Excavating dam sites or other projects that require building retaining walls

Excavation teams have to be competent and well equipped. If they miscalculate any step in their process, this could cause the construction to be halted. If the building somehow continues to completion, the structure will not be strong and this will endanger the occupants within.

There are several factors that ensure the success of a commercial excavation project. These include:

1. Erosion control

With every storm comes erosion and whereas you can overlook erosion in some circumstances, you cannot afford to ignore it where construction sites are concerned. If storm water is not well controlled during excavation, building inspectors could shut down the project.

Erosion control in an excavation site usually involves procedures such as excavating the top soil, creating a silt fence and others.

2. Site management

To get to a site, entrances have to be cleared or created, large rocks moved and areas for piling loads designated. This means that the excavating company has to be involved in the construction sequencing so that they know what they need to do and when they need to do it.

If excavators are not done involved, this could cause unnecessary delays. For instance, if trucks have delivered construction material but haul roads have not been excavated, this could prolong delivery timelines.

3. Managing utilities

An excavation company has to know where utility lines such as gas, water, electricity and fiber optics are installed. Being ignorant about such details will only lead to damage of existing utilities.

4. Time management

Excavation projects should adhere to strict timelines, especially because weather patterns can be quite unpredictable. Rain and storms can especially set back an excavation project and even upset all your construction plans, so adhering to timelines is important if you don’t want to hold up your construction unnecessarily.

5. Communication

It’s important for all teams working on a construction to remain accessible to the contractor throughout the construction timeline. Sometimes the necessity to excavate can come at a short notice and it’s great to know that you can count on excavators who can be on call when you desperately need them.

6. Professionalism

If building too close to surrounding property, this could raise concerns about damage from the owners of those properties. Additionally, if the excavation is being done on a site with lawns, plants and pavement, the excavation company should take measures to protect them.