We pour concrete for office parks, corporate campuses and the businesses that sit around them in Savannah. That covers parking areas, loading pads, walkways between buildings, ADA ramps and the concrete sidewalk carrying people from the lot to your front door. Some of it is plain gray flatwork nobody looks at twice. Some of it is stamped concrete at an entrance, colored to sit against brick or stone. Both get the same subgrade prep.
Commercial work asks more of the slab. Delivery trucks, dumpster pads and fire lanes put loads on a pour that a house driveway never sees, so thickness, rebar layout and joint spacing all follow from what will actually drive across it. Drainage matters as much as the mix does. Water that ponds in a parking bay or sits along a building edge will find the weak point eventually, and it is patient.
Most of what fails on a corporate property was decided before the truck arrived: soft subgrade, wire mesh left lying flat on the ground, control joints cut late or spaced by habit instead of by the slab. We are a concrete contractor and nothing else, so the flatwork is not something we hand off. We take work across Savannah and out toward Pooler. Call for a free estimate.
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Commercial concrete on an office or corporate property is mostly flatwork: the entry sidewalk, the walkways between buildings, parking aprons, curbs, dumpster pads, loading areas and the ramps that make all of it reachable. Some of it is decorative. Most of it is not. A concrete sidewalk at a corporate entrance carries foot traffic every working hour, and the slab under a delivery truck carries weight that walkway never sees. Same material, different builds, and the difference is decided long before anyone smooths a surface.
Underneath finished concrete sits a graded, compacted base, forms set to a slope that moves water off the surface, and steel: rebar in the heavier pours, wire mesh in lighter flatwork. Thickness follows use. Control joints get cut on a spacing that tells the slab where to crack, because it is going to crack somewhere. Finish is the last decision. Broom texture for grip on a working walk, exposed aggregate, stamped concrete or colored concrete where an entrance or courtyard is meant to be looked at.
Failures on a commercial lot almost always trace back to what happened before the pour. A base that was never properly compacted settles, and the slab spans the void until it breaks. Reinforcement left out, or laid flat on the ground instead of up on chairs, does nothing at all. Joints cut too late let random cracks arrive first and win. Water with nowhere to drain pools at a doorway, works into the edges and grinds the surface down over time.
Doing it right is mostly patience. That means excavating to real subgrade instead of the easy depth, compacting in lifts, setting steel where it belongs, and keeping the mix consistent from the first truck to the last. Pours get phased so entrances and parking stay usable while the work moves across the property. Fresh concrete gets protected while it cures. None of this shows up in a photograph of finished concrete, and all of it decides how that surface reads years from now.
We work as a concrete contractor in Savannah, Pooler, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island, on the same terms in every one of them. Savannah alone holds 147,898 people, and a lot of what we pour is replacement: a walk that has lifted, an apron broken up under delivery traffic, a patio nobody has touched in decades. Walk the property with us and we will tell you plainly what has to come out and what can stay. Call for a free estimate.
We pour and replace concrete for office buildings, corporate campuses and the properties that support them: parking aprons, walkways between buildings, loading pads, entry landings and the concrete sidewalk that runs the length of the frontage. Most of it is flatwork. Almost none of it carries the light traffic a residential driveway sees, and that changes what goes into the slab: thicker sections where trucks turn, rebar instead of wire mesh where the load asks for it, control joints cut on a plan rather than wherever the saw lands. Commercial flatwork is judged on how it looks in five years, not on the day it cures.
Savannah's median home was built in 1971. Concrete that has been in the ground that long tends to tell you something before you touch it: settled panels, cracks that track the same line year after year, patches sitting proud of the grade around them. We read that first. The base under a slab decides more than the mix does, so we look at what the subgrade is doing and where water leaves the site. Some panels come out whole. Others stay, and the work is matching new concrete to what is already there.
Finish is part of the job on a property people walk into every morning. Stamped and colored concrete reads well at an entry or a courtyard, exposed aggregate gives a walkway grip, and a broom finish is often the right answer on a service drive nobody photographs. We pour in sections so a working building keeps its doors. That holds whether the property is a single office here or a corporate lot out toward Pooler. Call for a free estimate on any commercial concrete installation, from sidewalk repair to a full driveway replacement.
We walk the property and look at what is already there: slab thickness at broken edges, how water moves across the lot, where trucks turn. Existing concrete driveway sections tell us a lot. We measure square footage, note access for the pump or chute, and mark utilities.
You get the scope in writing: dimensions, thickness, reinforcement, finish, joint layout, and what we haul off. We handle the permit paperwork where the job needs one. Anything we cannot see until demolition starts, like buried footings or old asphalt, is called out ahead of time.
Old concrete comes out and gets hauled away. Then the real work: grading to fall, compacting the subgrade in lifts, and setting graded aggregate base to the depth the slab calls for. Soft spots get dug out and replaced. Poor compaction is the single most common cause of cracked, settled sidewalks.
Forms go in on string line so the slopes and elevations hold. Rebar or wire mesh sits on chairs at mid-slab depth, not pushed to the bottom. Concrete installation runs continuously with the mix specified for the load, whether that is walkway traffic or delivery driveways.
Finish depends on the surface: broom texture for traction on walks, harder trowel or exposed aggregate elsewhere. We cut control joints early, before shrinkage picks its own crack line. Curing compound goes down the same day. We walk the finished work with you and explain when it takes traffic.
Two office properties can call for the same square footage of flatwork and still price out differently. Condition and access drive the number more than anything else, and both are things you can walk out and look at before a single contractor quotes you.
| What changes the price | Which way | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Old slab or asphalt sitting where the new pour goes | costs more | Demolition, loadout and haul off all happen before any concrete arrives |
| A mixer truck can back right up to the forms | costs less | Wheelbarrows or a pump line add labor to every yard placed |
| Soft or filled subgrade under the work area | costs more | It comes out and gets replaced with compacted stone |
| Rebar on chairs rather than wire mesh | costs more | Delivery trucks and dumpster traffic call for the heavier steel |
| Six inches of slab instead of four | costs more | More concrete per square foot, and deeper excavation to hold it |
| Ground that already falls away from the building | costs less | Less grading, and no added drains to keep water off the concrete |
| Stamped, colored or exposed aggregate finish | costs more | Each one adds material and a second round of hand work |
| Buried irrigation, conduit or tree roots under the pour | costs more | Hand digging around them slows the excavation down |
Read competing bids line by line instead of bottom line to bottom line. Check slab thickness, whether the steel is rebar or mesh, how the subgrade gets prepped, who hauls the old concrete, and where the control joints fall. A bid that leaves those out is not cheaper, just vaguer.
Yes. Nights and weekends are normal for us on occupied commercial property. Pours, saw cutting and demolition all make noise, and the dust from breaking out an old slab travels. Running that work after your tenants leave keeps it out of their day. We do need the site accessible and lit, and someone reachable for door codes or gate keys while the crew is there.
Enough to get a permit pulled through the City of Savannah, book the concrete and line up the crew for the days we actually want. Scheduling is weather bound, so a fixed date months out means less than a target week we protect. Call as early as the budget is real. If your window is tight, tell us the window first and we will say plainly whether it works.
Ask us directly and we will tell you exactly what we carry and send the paperwork your manager needs to review. Most commercial properties want certificates before anyone sets foot on site, sometimes with the ownership entity named. Get us that requirement early. Sorting it during the bid stage is easy, and sorting it the morning of a pour is not.
We break the flatwork into sections that each leave a usable path in and out. One drive lane stays open while the other is poured. Half a walkway gets replaced, cures, then the other half. That means more setups, more edges and more saw joints than a single continuous pour, and it takes longer. It also means nobody has to close for a week.
Slope, cross slope and level changes get shot with a laser and checked before the concrete arrives, not after. Ramps, landings, transitions at doors and the route from parking to entrance are where offices usually have problems, and an existing sidewalk that was fine in 1971 often is not fine now. Rebuilt work meets current requirements. We will tell you what we find.
Usually close, rarely perfect. Stamped and colored concrete cured for twenty years has faded, and new work poured next to it starts darker. We can match the pattern, the joint layout, the broom direction and the exposed aggregate size. Color takes test pours. Where matching would look worse than an honest break, we suggest a clean transition line instead and explain why.