Overview
What Site Development and Civil Coordination Includes
Site development in Irving begins with a set of conditions that distinguish it from many other DFW suburban development markets: Blackland Prairie clay that requires careful moisture management during grading and compaction, a drainage system that must accommodate the city's post-development stormwater standards while managing the clay's tendency to pond surface water before it can infiltrate, and a network of TxDOT-maintained highways — SH-114, I-635 LBJ Freeway, and the President George Bush Tollway interchange at MacArthur Boulevard — that govern driveway permit requirements for commercial sites with frontage on state roads. General Contractors of Irving coordinates the civil engineering, permit submissions, and field operations that navigate all of these conditions for commercial and industrial site development projects throughout Irving and Las Colinas.
The City of Irving's development review process involves multiple permit tracks for a typical commercial site: a grading and drainage permit for earthwork and stormwater management, a building permit for vertical construction, and sometimes a separate right-of-way permit for work in the public right-of-way along city-maintained streets. For sites on state highways, a separate TxDOT driveway access permit is required before the driveway construction can begin, and TxDOT's permit review can run six to twelve weeks for commercial driveways on high-volume state routes like SH-114 or Beltline Road near I-635. We manage all of these permit tracks simultaneously and coordinate the sequence of submissions to avoid creating a situation where vertical construction is ready to begin but the site access permit is still in review.
Underground utility coordination in Irving involves Oncor Electric Delivery for electrical service, Atmos Energy for natural gas, and the City of Irving's water and wastewater department for water service, fire hydrant connections, and sanitary sewer connections. For larger Las Colinas campus projects with high electrical demand, Oncor may require a new primary service transformer and vault construction that runs on a separate schedule from the general contractor's site work. We identify those Oncor coordination requirements early in preconstruction and initiate the Oncor service application well in advance of the date when permanent power is needed for construction testing and commissioning.
Site development for Irving and Las Colinas commercial and industrial projects integrates civil engineering coordination, permit management, earthwork, underground utility installation, and site paving. The elements below represent the full scope we manage from permit submission through City of Irving site acceptance.
