The heavy equipment has arrived, and the real digging has begun. In this photo, you can see the crew hard at work removing the poor-quality soils that testing revealed earlier this summer. Those layers of weak topsoil and saturated clay — some as deep as three feet — just aren’t strong enough to hold up a massive building. So before construction can move forward, they’ve got to go.
Here, the excavator is loading up a Volvo hauler with bucket after bucket of the soft, unstable material. Every load carried out of the hole brings us one step closer to clean, solid ground that’s capable of supporting our new warehouse. It may look like a dirty job (and it is), but this is one of the most important steps in the entire process.
Stripping away the bad soils might not be glamorous, but it’s what clears the path for a foundation that will last for decades. Think of it as laying the groundwork for everything to come — literally. Once this phase is finished, the site will finally be ready for the next chapter: building up instead of digging down.
