Site Rehabilitation
The last pass, leaving a site something can sit on
Reshaping, compacting and preparing a site for building or reuse. The finishing work that turns a cleared or remediated block into a surface with a known level and a known density, with the drainage falling where it should rather than where it ended up.
Carried out under demolition licence AD214737
Before anything starts
Six things have to be settled first, and not all of them are ours
Most jobs that run late run late on this list rather than on the work itself. Each line says who owns it.
- 01
Final levels
Who You, through your surveyor or engineer
What the finished surface has to be, and where it falls to.
- 02
Compaction requirement
Who You, through your engineer
What density, in what layers, and who tests it.
- 03
Drainage intent
Who You, with your engineer
Where water is meant to go. A site shaped without this collects it somewhere nobody wanted.
- 04
Material available on site
Who Both of us
What can be reused for shaping, and what has to be imported.
- 05
Access for the finishing plant
Who Both of us
Rollers and graders need room, and on a tight block that is not always available.
- 06
Handover condition agreed
Who Both of us
Trimmed, compacted, swept, fenced. Agreed before rather than discussed after.
Scope
What the quote does and does not cover
Stated side by side so there is nothing to discover later. Anything in the right hand column can be added, it is simply priced separately.
Included as standard
| Item | What that means |
|---|---|
| Reshaping | To the final levels and falls |
| Placement | Of suitable material available on site |
| Compaction | In layers to the specified standard |
| Trim | Finished surface trimmed to level |
| Drainage falls | Shaped so water goes where the design intends |
| Site tidy | Swept and left in the agreed condition |
Quoted separately
| Item | Why it is separate |
|---|---|
| Compaction testing | Geotechnical work, by your consultant |
| Imported fill | Supplied and placed as a separate line |
| Drainage structures | Pits, pipes and trade work by others |
| Topsoil and turf | Landscaping work |
| Retaining structures | Engineered and built by others |
| Permanent fencing | A separate trade |
The detail
What rehabilitation actually leaves behind
- A known level. Not an approximate one. The surface is trimmed to what the drawings say, because what goes on top of it is built to a dimension.
- A known density. Compacted in layers to the specified standard, so that what is built on it does not settle.
- Falls that work. Water going where the design wants it rather than pooling against a structure or running onto a neighbour.
- No surprises underneath. Material that was placed and compacted rather than pushed into a low spot and covered over.
- A site somebody can start on. Swept, clear and fenced where that is in scope.
- A record. What was placed, from where, and to what standard.
What we need to quote it
- The address
- So we can look at access and what is around it
- Photographs
- One from the street and one of the work itself
- Any reports you hold
- Hazardous materials, structural, survey or levels
- Your dates
- What has to be finished by when, and what is waiting on it
We attend the site before quoting anything substantial.
If material has to come in to finish the shaping
Clean fill, VENM and road base supplied and placed in layers, which is a separate line from reshaping what is already there.
Before you book
What people ask about this one
Is this the same as levelling?
Do I need it if the site is already cleared?
Who tests the compaction?
Can you shape it for drainage?
What condition is it left in?
Get a quote
Tell us the finished level and the falls
Final levels, the compaction standard and where the water is meant to go. That is a rehabilitation scope in three lines.
- Trimmed to the level your engineer specified
- Compacted in layers, tested independently
- Handover condition agreed in writing before we start
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