Excavation and demolition in Federal Way
King County
Federal Way sits up on the plateau rather than down in a valley, which makes it some of the most predictable digging between here and Tacoma.
The ground in Federal Way
The city is on glacial till almost all the way across. It is dense, it is hard digging, and it takes a clean vertical face — the opposite of the valley cities either side of it.
The exception is the western edge, where the plateau breaks off toward Puget Sound. Bluff lots there are about what is holding the ground up, not about how fast it comes out.
Very little of Federal Way is raw land. It was built out between the 1960s and the 1990s, so the work is usually removing what is already there — pavement, slabs, commercial frontages — before anything new starts.
Areas we work in Federal Way
Access and terrain change a job more than anything else does. These are the parts of Federal Way we get called to and what each one usually means for the work.
- Pacific Highway S
- Commercial frontage work tight against a live road. Asphalt and slab removal where half the job is protecting what stays open.
- Twin Lakes and Mirror Lake
- Established residential with mature trees. Removals are as much about the approach across the lot as the work itself.
- Dash Point and Dumas Bay
- Bluff lots above the Sound. Long, steep approaches decide the machine size before anything is dug.
- City Center
- Large paved parcels being redeveloped. Open access and a lot of material to haul out.
- Redondo
- Steep ground dropping to the shoreline, with narrow streets and no room to turn a truck.
What Federal Way usually needs
- DemolitionStructures down, debris gone, site left clean.
- Site preparationRaw ground turned into a pad the next trade can work on.
- Trucking and haulingMaterial in, spoil and debris out.
Working in Federal Way?
Tell us what the site is and what has to come out. We would rather look at it than price it off a drawing.