Utility Trenching
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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Road building opens up land that trucks cannot reach today. At Bankston's Builders, we build private roads, ranch roads, lease roads and haul roads with the expertise heavy road work takes. Each one sits on a compacted base under a gravel or caliche surface. Ditches and culverts carry water off it and under it.
A road is often one part of a bigger job. The corridor comes first, and our land clearing work takes out the brush and trees in the way. Fort Worth sits at the center of our service area. The area reaches west to the Permian Basin and southwest into the Texas Hill Country.
Tell us about the land or the building project and where it is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
As a road construction company, we build the roads that big pieces of land depend on. On a ranch, that means a road across the property to pastures and stock tanks. For a landowner, it can mean a long driveway to a new house site.
For developers, we build haul roads and site roads that carry loaded trucks while a project goes up. Data center campuses need access roads too, and those are part of our data center site work.
Oil and gas operators need lease roads to reach new pad sites. The pads at the end of those roads are part of our oilfield construction work.
It starts with the route. We look at the ground and at where water runs across it. Then the corridor gets cleared, and roots and soft soil come out of the roadbed.
Next comes cut and fill to set the grade. We compact the subgrade, then place road base in layers and compact each one. The gravel or caliche surface goes on top. It gets a crown, a slight hump down the middle, so rain runs off to the sides.
Side ditches carry that water along the road and away from it. Where the road crosses a low spot or a drainage, a culvert carries water under it. Bigger crossings and ponds belong to our site drainage work.
The farther west the work goes, the bigger the ranch and road jobs tend to get. The ground changes along the way, and it shapes how each road gets built. Road building is one part of our dirt work in Fort Worth and across the service area.
West of Fort Worth, some soils are just 9 to 20 inches deep over limestone. Blackland Prairie clay cracks open when it dries and takes in water slowly once wet. In West Texas, caliche is the usual pad and road material.
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, some jobs are too big for one ticket. Railroad Commission of Texas rules then call for a face-to-face meeting with the pipeline operator.
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 road building around Fort Worth and the rest of our Texas service area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
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.
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.
What a gravel or caliche road costs per mile and per foot in Texas. Market ranges for ranch roads, lease roads and long driveways, and what moves them.
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What land clearing costs per acre in Texas: market ranges by brush density, tree size, acreage, slope and disposal method, and what a written quote covers.
Read more →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.