Commercial Site Prep in the Intermountain West: Overcoming Soil, Slope, and Subsurface Risks

When a commercial developer reviews a pro forma, the line items for vertical construction—the steel, the glass, the framing—are relatively predictable. The true financial wild card in the Intermountain West lies completely hidden beneath the surface. From the shifting, expansive clays of the Wasatch Front to the shallow volcanic bedrock of Southern Idaho, subsurface conditions […]