Excavation & Trenching
Excavation: moving earth, soil, or rock. If you need a contractor to work on underground piping that goes from the main to the slab, give us a call. In addition to trenching and pipe laying, we can do soil refill and compaction, grading, and other final grade landscaping.
Lake of the Ozarks, Jefferson City, Osage Beach, Camdenton Mo.
Dirt Work
Grading
Fill Dirt & Backfilling
Topsoil Excavation
Grading, reshaping of land through removal, relocation, or addition of soil, dirt, or other material for a practical or aesthetic purpose. Even simple grading projects require knowledge of soil.
Modifying your landscape grade could affect your home and other structures.
Topsoil Excavation
Fill Dirt & Backfilling
Topsoil Excavation
Topsoil excavation involves the removal of the topmost exposed area of the earth’s surface. In topsoil excavation, vegetation, soil, and other decaying material is removed so the land can bear structural loads. that could make the land unsuitable to bear structural loads.
Fill Dirt & Backfilling
Fill Dirt & Backfilling
Fill Dirt & Backfilling
Fill dirt is a mixture of dirt, rock, sand, and shale used to level or raise the elevation of land. Unlike topsoil, fill dirt has very little organic matter. Fill dirt is sometimes used for drainage, as water runs relatively quick through it, with little water retention.
Underground Site Work
Utilities
Pipe Laying & Trenching
Pipe Laying & Trenching
Utility lines installed underground, such as electric, cable, gas, water, or internet.
Pipe Laying & Trenching
Pipe Laying & Trenching
Pipe Laying & Trenching
Our experienced excavation and trenching contracting team can create perfect trenching for pipes, septic, or water.
Footings
Pipe Laying & Trenching
Footings
Foundation transfers the load bearing from a building structure to the earth. Footing is the foundation in contact with the earth. Footings are a type of shallow foundation.
Rock Excavation
Rock Excavating Services
Large rocks, gravel, and sand must be removed from land so construction can move forward, or for general landscaping purposes. Compass Land & Construction can help remove large rocks, boulders, and stone from your property or building site. We can also help move large stones and rocks as part of planned landscaping using our excavation equipment, excavators, and other heavy machinery.
Other Excavation Types
Earth Excavation
Building Pad Excavation
Building Pad Excavation
To make a stable foundation area when constructing buildings or bridges, some layers of earth must be removed to get to stable earth. Topsoil and soil are removed, leaving solid earth as a foundation starting point for construction.
Building Pad Excavation
Building Pad Excavation
Building Pad Excavation
Grading land, filling, and excavating it where necessary, and tightly compacting it. Once that is done, a solid foundation to evenly hold the weight of the structure is ready to be built on top of it and keep it from shifting or sinking.