Discovering Rock on Your Construction Project

Realizing you have a rocky site is not something any land developer wants. However, removal assistance could add time to your building agenda if your crew doesn't clearly understand how much rock exists before the building starts. Furthermore, rock removal costs may be unwelcome, depending on how your excavating agreement is written.

While mother nature can easily surprise us with unexpected underground circumstances, a professional, well-qualified excavator is prepared and willing to take command of this potentially frustrating circumstance. Your site contractor can walk you through the process steps and provide a concept of the impact on your project so progress can resume smoothly.

Our experts on land clearing in Ormond Beach have been extracting rock from building sites for decades. Over the years, we've created tried and true ways to anticipate and remove stone embedded on sites.

Knowing if there's rock before construction begins

Before the construction project starts, you can inspect for rock on your site to understand what lies ahead for your contractors. You can accomplish this in several ways, but one of the best is to engage a geotechnical engineer to conduct a boring log for your location.

They will drill holes into the earth at various sites during this procedure. These holes show what is under the surface — topsoil, dirt, stone, water, or something else. It also tells how deep each layer reaches.

The more bores drilled, the more costly the report, but the more precise it will be. You might not get a complete picture if you just have a handful of these accomplished on a site that's several dozen acres. Your geotechnical engineer can help you devise a plan that best investigates your location to provide accurate data.

An excellent way to economize is to focus the location of the boreholes in zones that will demand excavation and trenching. But remember that this could be more than just your facility's footprint. From induction of utility lines and grading to other elements of site work, more reaches below grade than only the building's foundation.

We'll input the data from the boring log into software that figures the details and provides a clear understanding of the entire picture of what's happening below grade. If boring logs are not in the cards for your scheme, other methods exist to get a concept of what may lie under the soil's surface.

One method is to make conclusions based on past experience. For example, local excavators working in the same region should know how stony the ground is. If they labored on a highly rocky site just half a mile down the street, your site would likely contain a substantial amount of rock. Excavators will also look at the site and surrounding areas in person and with online aerial maps. While not consistently all-encompassing, these techniques can provide small clues as to whether or not there is a lot of stone in the area.

These are a few things you need to know about discovering rock on a construction project. Contact us today if you need land clearing in Ormond Beach. We are here for you,