Commercial New Construction
We build ground-up commercial buildings and additions for owners and developers. One company carries the job from the dirt work and the pad to the finished building.
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Data center site work is the dirt work that comes before the data halls go up. Bankston's Builders clears the campus, grades it, builds the pads and cuts the access roads. We dig the trenches for conduit and shape the drainage that moves stormwater off the site. All of it runs on heavy equipment our crews know well, to the grading plan and the geotechnical report.
A campus pad is site preparation at a larger scale, and the rest follows the same plans. We also build commercial buildings, so the structure itself and a project's commercial tenant finish out can run under the same company. The line-voltage electrical and the mechanical systems inside a data hall belong to the contractors in those trades, and the low voltage wiring and the server racks can run under the same company as the dirt work.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Clearing and grubbing come first, and the brush and trees come off the whole footprint, roots included. Mass grading follows, with cut and fill balanced so dirt moves the shortest distance. Then the pads for the data halls and the equipment yards go up in compacted lifts.
Access roads come next, because trucks and cranes need a way in before the slabs are poured. We build haul roads on compacted base for the construction phase. Long trench runs for power conduit and duct banks cross the campus. We dig and backfill them as part of our utility trenching work.
The electrical contractor sets the conduit and pulls the cable, and a fiber contractor runs the fiber. Our part is the open trench and the compacted backfill over the conduit. Drainage ties the site together, from the roadside ditches to the detention pond.
Much of the clay around Fort Worth swells when it is wet and shrinks as it dries. The federal soil survey maps Houston Black clay across the Blackland Prairies and the east side of the Grand Prairie. It rates that soil high for shrink-swell, with cracks up to 4 inches wide a foot down in dry weather. A pad on ground like that needs moisture control as much as it needs compaction.
Rain sets the pace on a big grading job, and spring is Fort Worth's wettest season. NOAA's 30-year normals put Fort Worth Meacham Field near 35 inches of rain a year. Wet clay has to dry back before it will compact, so a long campus schedule plans around it. Each lift gets a proof roll and comes to its target moisture before the compactor works it.
Roofs and pavement add a lot of runoff once they go in. Site drainage on a data center site means detention ponds, ditches along the roads and culverts under them. For the Dallas side of the Metroplex, see our dirt work in Dallas page.
Fort Worth requires a grading permit for land disturbing work on one acre or more. The application needs signed and sealed civil plans and a stormwater pollution prevention plan. The city's Development Services department issues it.
TCEQ's construction stormwater general permit covers any site that disturbs an acre or more. A site that disturbs 5 acres or more counts as a large construction activity under it. The permit wants the stormwater pollution prevention plan in place before construction starts.
Texas tax law defines a qualifying data center as a facility of at least 100,000 square feet. A campus of buildings that size, with its roads and yards, disturbs well over 5 acres. Texas law requires notice to Texas 811 before machine digging 16 inches or deeper, at least two business days ahead.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 300 miles around Fort Worth across DFW, West Texas and the Hill Country.
(214) 557-5106From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form. Tell us what the project is, where the land or the building sits and when you need it done.
We go over the tract or the space, the plans and the access for heavy equipment. On dirt work we also look at the ground and where the water runs.
The scope and the price go in writing before any work starts. The quote spells out what gets cleared, cut, built or finished.
Machines and crews come in on the set date. On a dirt job the work runs in order: clearing, the pad or the road, the trenches, then the drainage. On a build, the trades follow the schedule.
The ground is left graded and compacted to the plan, ready for concrete, a building or a rig. On a finish out or a custom home, the work runs through to the finished space.
Common questions about data center site work around Fort Worth and the rest of our Texas service area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We build ground-up commercial buildings and additions for owners and developers. One company carries the job from the dirt work and the pad to the finished building.
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We run Ethernet and structured cabling and install AV systems inside the commercial spaces we finish out. On data center projects, we put together the server racks and run the network cabling to them.
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We finish out retail and commercial spaces as one job: roofing, HVAC, polished concrete, drywall, insulation, doors, cabinets and countertops. One company manages every trade from the bare shell to the finished space.
Learn MoreExcavators, dozers, compactors and skid steers do the work, run by crews with real expertise on each machine. The jobs are sized to match: multi-acre clearing, commercial pads, long roads and oilfield locations.
The pad, the concrete and the building can all run through the same company. A custom home starts on a pad we cut and compacted. A commercial project can go from raw land to a finished tenant space.
Developers, oil and gas operators, data center builders and ranch owners all bring us ground to move. Each site gets its own scope, whether that is a detention pond, a lease road or a campus pad.
Tell us about the land or the building and where it sits. We look at the job, then put the scope and the price in writing before any work starts.
Tell us about the land, the pad, the road or the building and where it sits. Call or text (214) 557-5106, or send the form and we will get back to you with the next step.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
