Demolition & Excavation
Owner: KIDCO Construction
Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta
Contract value: Over $100,000
Selected Work
Ground, finished.
Photographs from our own jobs. The captions describe the work in each frame: a bulk cut, a road prism under floodlights, a basin set to grade. No staging, no borrowed stock photos.
Recent Contract History
Recent contract history
Comparable work completed for general contractors and owners, with contract value. Reference contacts are available on request.
Demolition & Excavation
Owner: Ninkovich Sand and Gravel
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Contract value: Over $100,000
Excavation
Owner: Ledcor Group of Companies
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Contract value: Over $200,000
Gerald & Kate Holdings is a newly established company, so it does not yet have a completed contract history under its current corporate name. The work above was completed by the principals individually, and Gerald & Kate Holdings can supplement its two excavators and experienced personnel against any project scope and schedule.
Bulk cut & fill: machine control
Residential Subdivision
Cut, fill and fine grade
across a growing quarter.
Scope
Topsoil stripped and stockpiled for reuse across the future boulevard network, then bulk cut and fill to bring the pad to rough grade. Material pushed short distances rather than trucked, with the balance resolved on site wherever the volumes allowed it.
What mattered
Drainage pulled forward to the frontage before fine grade, so the pad sheds water before it is locked under base course. Fine grade to lot corners with the new homes going up alongside. That sequence keeps the pad clean.
Road construction: night shift
Road Construction
Road prism built after dark,
finished before the frost.
Scope
Cut to grade, fill placed and compacted in lifts, then shaped with a motor grader and pulled back to the shoulder. Haul units kept moving through the cut while the crew worked the lift behind them.
What mattered
Working the night shift to hold the schedule against the first hard freeze. Base course placed in condition to compact properly. Cold wet fill shows up as a washout the following spring.
Drainage & utilities: set to grade
Drainage & Underground
Set to grade,
not set to hope.
Scope
Catch basins and service trenches set off the finished elevation, with bedding, backfill and compaction handled to leave a trench that settles properly and passes inspection.
What mattered
Basin inverts set from finished grade rather than raw grade. It is a small difference on paper and the difference between a basin that catches runoff and one that quietly fills with dirt.
Mass earthworks: cut to daylight
Mass Earthworks
Working the cut
until the light goes.
Scope
Excavator and dozer working a bulk cut, benching as we went so the face stayed stable and the material stayed workable rather than slumping into the pit.
What mattered
Water in the bottom of the cut. Every bench graded to fall so water moved off the work area instead of standing in it. That is the difference between working the site and fighting it.
Rural approach: Rocky View County
Residential Site Work
An approach that
survives the melt.
Scope
Site preparation, cut to grade, geotextile under the aggregate and placed rock on the exposed edge, built so the upper approach drains across rather than down the lane.
What mattered
Crossfall on the driving surface and a separator under the gravel. Without the fabric, the fines pump into the base and the approach starts breaking up within a couple of seasons.
Final grade: commercial site
Commercial Site Work
The part you
you see every day.
Scope
Fine grading around a completed structure, working around finished landscaping rather than through it. Spoil removed, grade blended in, site cleaned up for handover.
What mattered
Sequencing against the trades already on site. Finish grading is quick to do badly and slow to fix. It goes in after the structure, around the plantings, once.
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