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Industrial parking lot paving
Large-area paving built for constant traffic and turning, with falls set so water leaves the surface instead of sitting on it.
What it is
A parking lot fails at the turning points first. Vehicles pivoting on the same spot shear the surface, and once water gets into that the frost does the rest over winter.
We build the areas that take the punishment deeper than the areas that do not, set the falls so water actually reaches the drainage, and seal the joints where new work meets old.
Work is phased so part of the site stays open where you need it to. On most commercial lots we can work section by section rather than closing the whole thing.
What we get right
Water has to leave the surface. Flat spots are where parking lots start to break up.
Built deeper where vehicles pivot, because that is where the shear load is concentrated.
Bays, directional arrows and accessible spaces marked once the surface has cured.
Finished work
What makes a lot last
A parking lot fails from the bottom up. The wearing course takes the abuse, but almost every failure that matters — rutting, alligator cracking, potholes at the entrance — starts with a sub-base that was too thin, poorly compacted or saturated. The useful questions are about what sits underneath and where the water goes, not about how the top looks on day one.
Full depth or overlay
An overlay is the right call when the structure below is sound and the problem is surface-level: oxidation, minor cracking, worn texture. It is the wrong call over a base that is still moving, because reflective cracking will trace the old defects through the new layer within a couple of seasons. Where inspection shows the base has gone, full-depth reconstruction costs more once instead of a little repeatedly.
Drainage decides the lifespan
Water sitting under asphalt is what turns small defects into expensive ones. Falls have to move water off the surface and away from the structure, catch basins need to sit at the low points rather than near them, and the sub-base needs somewhere to drain to. A lot that ponds after rain is telling you exactly where it will fail first.
Not all of it carries the same load
Traffic is never evenly spread. Entrances, turning areas, loading bays and anywhere heavy vehicles stand still carry far more stress than the parking bays do. Those areas justify thicker construction or a stiffer mix. Building an entire lot to one specification usually means over-building most of it while still under-building the parts that actually take the punishment.
Get a price for your lot
Send the approximate area and what uses it. We will come back with a figure and a schedule that keeps you open.