Concrete is where trip and fall exposure lives, where ADA compliance is decided, and where a property either looks maintained or does not. We pour, set, and repair the walkways, curbs, ramps, and walls that hold the rest of the site together.
Most hardscape work on a commercial property is not decorative. It is circulation, drainage, and accessibility, and two of those three have rules attached that a property manager gets asked about.
Sidewalks, pads, aprons, and slabs. Full replacement where the panel has failed and section repair where it has not, because replacing a whole run when three panels moved is how concrete budgets disappear.
Trip hazard correction, running slope and cross slope, landings, handrails where required, and truncated dome panels. This is the highest exposure item on most properties and it is measurable, which means it is fixable.
Curb is a drainage structure. When it breaks or settles, water leaves the channel it was designed for and goes under the asphalt instead. Repairing curb is usually a pavement decision wearing concrete clothes.
New walls, and rebuilds of walls that were built without drainage behind them, which is most of the ones that fail. Segmental block, boulder, and terracing where grade change needs to be managed rather than hidden.
Entry plazas, courtyards, and walkways in paver, plus resets where the base has settled. Pavers fail from the base up, so a reset that does not address the base is a job you pay for twice.
Dumpster enclosures and pads, bollards, wheel stops, transformer and generator pads, benches, and small structures. The unglamorous list that tenants and inspectors both notice.
Concrete gives a lot of warning before it becomes a claim. These are the warnings.
A vertical offset on a pedestrian route is the most common trip and fall claim on commercial property, and one of the cheapest things on the site to correct.
Running slope, cross slope, landing size, and detectable warnings. Ramps built before the current standard usually miss on at least one.
Water stops going where it was designed to go, and the asphalt next to it starts failing within a season or two.
Nearly always water behind it with nowhere to go. Walls fail slowly and then all at once, and the second stage is a much larger number.
The surface is telling you the base moved. Resetting without fixing the base means doing it again in two years.
Truck loading destroys pads that were poured too thin. It is a small pour and a recurring complaint until it is done right.
Accessibility and drainage both have numbers attached. That makes hardscape the easiest division to specify precisely and the worst one to leave to interpretation.
Panel counts, linear footage, offsets, and slopes taken with a level rather than an eye. Accessibility items get recorded as numbers.
Thickness, reinforcement, base prep, joint layout, and finish. Written down, so what gets poured is what was priced.
Pedestrian routes stay open. Sections are closed and detoured on a plan, with tenant notice before the saw starts.
Cure time respected, slopes re checked after the pour, and before and after photos filed against the property record.
Division 03 · Hardscape
We will walk the pedestrian routes, measure the offsets and the slopes, and tell you what is a repair and what is a replacement. Same day response on any request.