Project Highlight:
Mirada
Contractor: Burgess Civil, LLC
Excavation/Site Development
Metro Development
San Antonio, FL
PROJECT SCOPE
The project consists of the development of 211 single family
and multi family lots for a residential subdivision in San
Antonio, FL. The type of work is not out of the ordinary but
some of the means and methods to perform the work were.
On multiple phases of the projects we had to lay sanitary
sewer of depths up to 22’ below existing ground. Laying
20’+ deep sewer is a challenge but what made the project
even more challenging was the fact that all of the Clay soils
encountered in the pipe trenches were deemed unsuitable
to remain under the roadway per County specifications. We
had to use double stacked trench boxes in order to operate
safely in the 20’ trenches. Our goal was to keep the pipe
trench as narrow as possibly but within OSHA compliance.
Any clay soils that we did not disturb were allowed to remain
in place. Anything that was excavated could not be placed
back under the roadway.
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SUBCONTRACTORS,
SUPPLIERS, EQUIPMENT
National Trench Safety was critical
to the project for our trench shoring
needs. We also worked with Ferguson
for water & sewer pipe needs and
Mack Concrete for our precast. Lastly
we worked with a variety of equipment
suppliers for our equipment fleet on
the project including Linder Komatsu,
Ring Power CAT, Flagler Volvo and
Trekker Tractor.
BENEFIT TO THE CLIENT
AND COMMUNITY
The benefit to our client was our
willingness to tackle a difficult project
with attention to detail. Also to provide
a fast paced schedule. The benefit to
the community will be the availability
of affordable housing in the San
Antonio, FL area. We expect to see
a boom of development in the 52
Corridor in the years to come and this
is one of the first large scale projects
to get off the ground.