Areas — Burnside 5066 · City of Burnside · about 7 km from the CBD
Earthworks in Burnside.
Burnside climbs toward the Hills face, and plenty of its blocks fall a metre or more across the site. Building on them means cut, fill and retaining before anything else, on ground that changes from heavy reactive clay to rock within a short distance.
The ground and the work in Burnside
Where rock appears, it changes the machine, the time and the price. We walk the site before pricing and treat rock as a variation with evidence if it turns up where it wasn't expected, rather than burying it in an estimate.
Burnside's tree canopy is part of its character, and large trees are protected under the state's regulated and significant tree rules. Excavation near a big tree is checked against those rules and the arborist's advice before work starts, not after a root is cut.