North Carolina
Commercial lots, drive lanes and residential work through the Piedmont and the Triangle, built on a base sized for clay that moves. Restaurant sites in High Point and Burlington are documented below.
Request a North Carolina EstimatePiedmont red clay shrinks in drought and swells when saturated, so pavement built straight on it moves seasonally. The fix is a properly thick stone base with drainage that actually leaves the site, not a heavier mat.
Milder winters than Virginia but real summer heat. Rutting and shoving under truck traffic is the failure to design against here — binder grade and compaction matter more than thickness alone.
NCDOT Standard Specifications for Roads and Structures — over a base built to drain, with a 96% Marshall Unit Weight minimum compaction floor.
Store numbers and addresses as they were photographed and sent to the client on completion. Checkable.
Run for KBP Foods, one of the largest KFC franchise operators in the United States.