The jobs we take on

Genesis has not finished a job we can photograph yet, so there is nothing here pretending to be one. What is here is the work itself — the situations we get called to, and what actually moves the number on each.

A cut face of excavated ground showing the layers of soil and rock beneath the surface.

Six shapes of job

Most of what we do falls into one of these. The list under each is what we look at when we price it, so you can tell from here whether we understand your site.

Teardown on a narrow city lot

A house coming down between two neighbours with a few feet either side, usually with alley access and nowhere to put anything. The demolition is the quick part. Protecting what stays, sequencing the trucks so the machine never sits idle, and getting the foundation out cleanly is where the time goes.

WHAT DECIDES THE PRICE

  • How close the neighbouring structures are, and what has to be protected
  • Whether a truck can reach the lot or has to be loaded from the street
  • Foundation type, and whether there is a basement to backfill
  • The asbestos survey, which happens before anything comes down

Slab and asphalt removal on a live frontage

A commercial parcel where the building stays open and the parking has to keep working while a section of it comes out. Half the job is staging so the business keeps running, which means working in phases rather than taking the whole surface at once.

WHAT DECIDES THE PRICE

  • How much of the site has to stay open, and when
  • Slab thickness and whether it is reinforced
  • What is buried under it — old footings, tanks, utilities nobody recorded
  • Haul distance to disposal, and whether the concrete is clean enough to recycle

Foundation and footing excavation

Digging to the grades on the engineer's drawing, on ground that rarely matches the soils report exactly. Over-dig a footing and you pay twice — once to take it out, again to put engineered fill back in. This is the work where being careful is cheaper than being fast.

WHAT DECIDES THE PRICE

  • Whether the ground is till that holds a face or fill that will not
  • Depth to water, and whether the hole needs dewatering
  • Shoring or benching where the cut is deep or close to a property line
  • Whether spoil can stay on site for backfill or has to be exported

Wooded parcel to building pad

A lot as it was bought, turned into something a framer can work on. Clearing, grubbing the stumps and root balls out, stripping and stockpiling topsoil, then cutting the pad to grade. Erosion control goes in before the first cut, not after somebody complains.

WHAT DECIDES THE PRICE

  • Tree size and count, and whether any timber has value
  • Stump and root-ball volume — the most common source of change orders
  • How much cut and fill can be balanced on site instead of trucked
  • Slope, and whether the pad needs a retaining structure to sit flat

Utility trench through soft ground

Storm, sewer, water, or the dry trench that power and communications share. Depth and groundwater drive this far more than length does. Walls get sloped, benched or shored to the depth and the soil every time, including the short runs — there is no version of this where a trench is left open and unprotected because it was only going to be an hour.

WHAT DECIDES THE PRICE

  • Depth, which sets the protection method before anything else
  • Water table, and whether the run needs dewatering
  • Bedding and backfill material, and whether it has to be imported
  • What else is already in the ground on the same line

Selective removal in a building that stays in use

One wall, one slab, an addition coming off the back, while the rest of the building carries on working around it. This is slower than an open teardown and we quote it as the slower job it is, rather than pricing it like a clear site and finding out later.

WHAT DECIDES THE PRICE

  • What is structural and what is not, and who has confirmed that
  • Dust, noise and vibration limits while the building is occupied
  • Access — whether debris comes out through a door or through an opening we make
  • How the work sequences around whoever else is on site

Photographs go up here as jobs finish

Every photograph on this site is licensed stock standing in until there are pictures of our own. None of it is our work and none of it is captioned as though it were. When a job is done and the client is happy for us to show it, it goes here with the scope and what it involved.

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Tell us what the site is and what has to come out. We would rather look at it than price it off a drawing.

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