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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.
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A new location in Midland County needs a pad and a lease road before anything else can move. The ground around Midland sets the terms. On Upton loam, the biggest soil in the county, hard caliche sits about 15 inches down. Other tracts are deep loam or loose sand that blows once it is stripped. Rain is scarce, about 13.5 inches a year, but it comes in hard summer storms. Water runs off the flats fast and collects in the draws.
Bankston's Builders builds caliche pad sites, lease roads and commercial pads with heavy equipment our crews know well. Midland is part of our service area. It sits about 300 miles west of Fort Worth on I-20. Our crews and equipment make that drive for the work. We take on the jobs that call for a dozer and a compactor. That means oilfield construction for oil and gas operators and lease road construction across a ranch. It also means pads for shops and yards along the highways. Call or text (214) 557-5106 and tell us where the location is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
Midland sits in the Midland Basin, the east side of the greater Permian Basin. The Railroad Commission of Texas puts the whole basin at about 250 miles wide and 300 miles long. Its count has the Permian at nearly 40 percent of the country's oil production. The Spraberry and Wolfcamp zones under Midland County drive much of that.
Every well needs a location: a caliche pad for the rig and a lease road to reach it. Our pad site preparation starts with stripping the topsoil and cutting the pad to grade. Caliche goes down in layers, each one compacted before the next. The pad gets a slight crown and the road gets side ditches. A summer storm then runs off instead of soaking in.
The highways that carry this traffic are the ones TxDOT keeps working on. State Highway 349 south toward Rankin is a corridor in TxDOT's Permian Promise program. TxDOT ties that program to the traffic growth that came with the energy sector. State Highway 158, State Highway 191, Loop 250 and FM 1788 all have TxDOT projects on the books.
Midland County is flat land broken by draws, 2,550 to 2,900 feet up, with no river or permanent surface water. The NRCS soil survey maps Upton loam as the biggest soil in the county. Its caliche cap sits about 15 inches down, cemented hard at the top. Kimbrough loam, another big one, has its cap just 8 to 10 inches down.
Some tracts have no cap at all. Reagan silty clay loam and Amarillo fine sandy loam cover big areas. Neither has a hard layer in the top several feet. Amarose and Springer loamy fine sands blow once the brush is off them. Along the draws, Bippus clay loam is mapped as occasionally flooded.
That mix changes the cut, the fill and the compaction on every job. A pad on capped ground and a pad on deep loam do not get built the same way. Midland Draw and Jal Draw cross the city, and Monahans Draw runs through the county. The city's Master Drainage Plan and the county's flood planning both deal with them. Our site drainage work sets the ditches and culverts where a road crosses a draw.
Midland is the administrative center of the Permian Basin oil fields, and its commercial growth follows the highways. Interstate 20, Business 20 and Loop 250 carry the traffic. FM 1788 by Midland International Air and Space Port has an I-20 bridge rebuild under way through early 2028. The airport also holds federal approval as a commercial spaceport. The Midland Development Corporation markets a Spaceport Business Park as well.
Shops, yards and warehouses along those corridors start with the same dirt work as a location. That means clearing, a compacted pad, a drive that drains and trenches for the utilities. Disturbing an acre or more of soil puts a site under TCEQ's construction stormwater rules. The city's Engineering Services posts a Storm Drainage Design Manual for new sites inside the city limits.
Midland counted 132,524 people in the 2020 Census. The Midland Development Corporation lists energy expansion and downtown development among its targets. The city buys surface water from the Colorado River Municipal Water District. It also pipes groundwater from its T-Bar Ranch well field. New sites tie into those lines, so utility trenches often run with the pad work.
Inside the city limits, the City of Midland Development Services Department issues building permits through its PermitMidland portal. Floodplain permits and the Storm Drainage Design Manual sit with Engineering Services. The city's Oil and Gas Services office reviews well drilling applications inside the city. For state rules it points to the Railroad Commission of Texas, whose District 8 office is in Midland.
Outside the city limits, Midland County's Public Works office handles the permits. That covers a driveway onto a county road, a road crossing, right of way use and the flood plain. Permit applications go before Commissioners Court, which meets the first and third Tuesday. Midland County also has subdivision regulations for new plats. We point you to the office that fits your tract.
Texas law calls for an 811 ticket before digging 16 inches or deeper. The notice goes in at least 48 hours ahead, not counting weekends and legal holidays. In pipeline country, a big pad or road job can be too large for one ticket. Railroad Commission rules then call for a face-to-face meeting with the pipeline operator to set the marking schedule.
Communities and areas we serve around Midland: Interstate 20, Loop 250, Business 20, State Highway 349, State Highway 158, State Highway 191, FM 1788, Midland International Air and Space Port, Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Midland College, Hogan Park, Midland Draw.
Midland ZIP codes served: 79701, 79703, 79705, 79706, 79707.
Midland is part of our service area. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
(214) 557-5106 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.
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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 clear trees and brush off ranch land and building sites with heavy equipment, roots and all. The ground is left ready for the pad or road that comes next.
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Building pads for commercial buildings, data centers, oilfield locations and custom homes. We cut and fill to the plan grades and compact each pad in lifts.
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Land grading levels lots and tracts and shapes the ground so water runs off. We do rough grading and finish grading with heavy equipment for developers, ranch owners and oil and gas operators.
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We build private, ranch, lease and haul roads on a compacted base with a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts move water off and under the road.
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As part of the site work, we dig trenches for water lines and electrical conduit, then backfill and compact them. A licensed plumber or a licensed electrician makes the hookups.
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We cut ditches and swales and set culverts that carry storm water off pads and roads. We also build stock tanks, ponds, dams and detention basins with heavy equipment.
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We build caliche pad sites and lease roads for oil and gas operators in West Texas and the Permian Basin. Grading and drainage around the location are part of the job, done by crews with real expertise on heavy equipment.
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Site work for data center campuses: clearing, mass grading, building pads, access roads, conduit trenches and drainage. We build the ground the data halls stand on, to the plans and the geotechnical report.
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We pour concrete slabs and pads on the sites we prepare ourselves. Inside commercial finish outs, we polish the concrete floor.
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We build poured concrete retaining walls that hold a cut or a fill on commercial sites, pads and ranch land. The excavation, footing, drainage and compacted backfill come with the wall.
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We rebuild commercial buildings and homes after a fire or a flood, once the building is dried out. The work runs to the insurance scope, from the tear-out through roofing, re-piping, drywall and finishes.
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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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High-end custom homes for select clients, from the pad to the finished house: stonework, custom iron doors, stone arches, fireplaces, custom kitchens, baths and closets. The dirt work and the build stay with one company.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Midland. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
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.