Commercial Site Work & Road Construction

Most contractors do one piece of a site. We do the whole thing.

Since 1978 Pave-Way has been the site contractor on commercial developments, subdivisions, road projects and municipal work across the CSRA — from raw ground through to a striped parking lot, with our own crews at every stage.

The full package

Clearing and demolition. Clearing, grubbing, stump removal and haul-off, plus demolition of anything already standing.

Erosion control. Silt fence, construction entrances, inlet protection and stabilisation, in before the ground opens.

Grading. Rough and finish, cut and fill, building pads to specification, balanced on site where the site allows it.

Storm drainage. Catch basins, piping, culverts, detention, outfall and headwalls.

Site utilities. Water, sanitary sewer and storm.

Curb and gutter. Formed and poured to municipal and DOT specification, tied into the storm system we installed.

Paving. Base and asphalt, parking areas, drives, private roads and subdivision streets.

Flatwork. Sidewalks, walkways, ADA access routes and islands.

Striping and layout. Stalls, directional markings, fire lanes and ADA signage.

Surveying. In-house.

Why one contractor across all of it

The argument is not convenience. It is that the failures on a commercial site happen at the seams between trades.

The storm system has to agree with the curb elevations. The curb has to agree with the pavement. The pavement has to sit on a base that somebody compacted properly, over subgrade that somebody stripped of organic material, draining to an inlet somebody set at the right elevation. Every one of those is a handoff, and every handoff is a place where an inch of discrepancy hides until the asphalt is down and water is standing in the middle of a new parking lot.

When one company does all of it, those are not handoffs — they are the same crew working from the same plan, and nobody can tell you the problem started upstream of their scope.

It is also why we do not subcontract our paving. We own the equipment and run the crews, so the schedule does not depend on somebody else’s availability between our stages.

Project types

Retail and shopping centre development · office and medical · church and institutional · industrial and warehouse · multi-family and apartment · new subdivisions and phased residential development · private and HOA roads · municipal and road construction · storage and logistics facilities

Working to plan

Most of our commercial work is built from engineered drawings. We attend prebid meetings, build to plan and to the engineer’s stakeout, coordinate with inspectors and the other trades on site, and handle land disturbance permitting in both Georgia and South Carolina.

Georgia work generally requires a land disturbance permit under the Erosion and Sedimentation Act once you are disturbing an acre or more, reviewed locally, with stormwater review triggered by added impervious area. South Carolina runs a comparable process through SCDES. Work touching a state route may need GDOT or SCDOT review of the access. We deal with both jurisdictions routinely.

Phasing around an operating business

Most of our commercial customers cannot close while we work. We phase in sections, sequence the drainage and paving so there is always a route in and out, and work nights and weekends where the property needs it.

That gets planned with you before we mobilise, not improvised on site.

Where developments go wrong

Three failures account for most of the site problems we get called in to correct on other people’s projects, and all three are seam problems.

Drainage designed after the layout. When the storm system is fitted around a parking layout rather than the layout being set with drainage in mind, you get inlets in places water does not naturally go and long shallow runs that silt up. It works on the day and degrades for a decade.

Pads built before the drainage. Fill placed over ground that still drains the way it always did, so water tracks under the new pad rather than around it.

Base accepted on trust. A paving contractor arriving to subgrade that somebody else certified, with no way to verify compaction once material is over it. This is the one that produces a new lot with alligator cracking in the second year.

None of these are exotic. They happen because the responsibility for each stage sits with a different company, and every boundary is a place where a problem can be handed on rather than solved. Doing the whole package removes the boundaries.

Credentials

Bonded, licensed and insured in both Georgia and South Carolina. Family-owned and operating since 1978, now in the third generation. Own equipment, own crews, own surveying. Listed with The Blue Book.

Call either office to talk about a project. Free estimates, no obligation.