For General Contractors
Self-Performed Civil Scopes Aligned With Your Schedule and Drawings
Harrowgate Group self-performs excavation, site servicing, sewer and watermain, concrete, demolition, and paving for general contractors across Toronto, the GTA, and Ontario. We plan labour, equipment, materials, inspections, and site logistics around your construction sequence, then execute the work to the issued documents. Harrowgate Group is licensed, insured, and WSIB certified.
Keep civil work on the critical path
Earthworks, buried services, foundations, and pavement control when structures rise and when the site reaches turnover. We build a scope-specific work plan from the issued drawings, geotechnical information, access constraints, required inspections, and your look-ahead schedule. Crews, equipment, haul routes, materials, testing, and follow-on activities are sequenced before mobilization.
- Preconstruction review identifies quantities, work limits, access, utility conflicts, temporary conditions, and interfaces with structural and building scopes.
- Procurement and mobilization dates are tied to excavation, backfill, forming, reinforcing, placement, curing, and paving activities.
- Inspection and testing hold points are built into the sequence, including subgrade review, compaction testing, reinforcement review, and concrete testing.
- Daily records and progress updates give your superintendent usable information for coordination meetings and three-week look-aheads.
Coordinate before excavation and concrete placement
Constructability decisions belong on the drawing log before crews open the ground. For site development, we review civil, structural, architectural, landscape, and utility information against existing grades, survey control, geotechnical recommendations, proposed elevations, and access requirements. RFIs are raised for conflicts in invert elevations, service crossings, foundation interfaces, drainage routes, and work limits.
Submittals and field records stay connected to execution. On site servicing and concrete foundation work, we coordinate approved materials, utility connections, sleeves, embeds, reinforcing, formwork, inspection access, testing, and as-built information with your superintendent, consultants, and authorities. That preparation protects downstream structure, envelope, mechanical, electrical, and paving activities from avoidable rework.
Self-performed scopes reduce handoff risk
Harrowgate Group controls the field execution of the core civil package. The same construction plan carries grades, excavation limits, utility elevations, foundation requirements, drainage, granular preparation, and finished surfaces from one operation into the next. This protects the designed elevations and bearing conditions that every later scope depends on.
- Site excavation, earthworks, cut and fill, trenching, dewatering, engineered shoring interfaces, and compacted backfill to specified elevations.
- Site servicing, including storm, sanitary, water, utility trenches, structures, connections, bedding, testing, and restoration.
- Concrete foundations, footings, grade beams, walls, slabs, equipment pads, curbs, and structural concrete built to the approved design.
- Roadworks and pavement base, including subgrade preparation, granular placement, drainage interfaces, curbs, asphalt, and site restoration.
Control work on active and constrained sites
Urban sites, occupied facilities, and phased projects require more than production capacity. We define haul routes, laydown areas, temporary access, edge protection, traffic control, dust and mud controls, working hours, shutdowns, and emergency access before fieldwork begins. Excavation, demolition, concrete placement, and paving are sequenced to keep approved routes open and protect completed work.
Field conditions are documented and addressed immediately. Unsuitable soils, groundwater, unknown utilities, elevation conflicts, and deteriorated substrates are recorded, the affected area is protected, and the information enters the RFI or change process with quantities and site evidence. This discipline applies from industrial facility concrete packages through asphalt paving and final restoration.
Why general contractors choose Harrowgate Group
General contractors use Harrowgate Group when the civil scope needs accountable field execution, technically informed planning, and clear project controls. We price from the contract documents, identify assumptions and exclusions, plan the sequence with your site team, and carry the approved requirements through inspection and closeout.
- Self-performed excavation, civil, concrete, demolition, and paving work keeps production decisions close to the field.
- Licensed, insured, and WSIB certified credentials support commercial, industrial, and heavy-civil site requirements.
- Daily reports, inspection records, testing information, quantities, as-builts, and deficiency tracking support your project file.
- Work follows the contract specifications and applicable OBC, CSA, OPSS, municipal, and consultant requirements.
Price the civil scope with the execution plan attached
Send Harrowgate Group the issued drawings, specifications, geotechnical information, tender form, schedule milestones, and site constraints. We will review the work limits, quantities, interfaces, inspection requirements, and access plan, then return a clear quotation for the required scope.
