Concrete Parking Lots in Edgerton, KS

An Edgerton lot answers the heaviest loads in the metro. Edgerton is home to Logistics Park Kansas City, the 1,500-acre BNSF intermodal facility, and the concrete around it — truck courts, container yards, staging pads — carries loads a retail lot never imagines: a loaded container set down on its corner castings, a reach-stacker's wheel, Class-8 rigs queuing around the clock. Those are concentrated point-loads, and they crack a slab sized for trucks, let alone cars.

Ford pours and rebuilds commercial and heavy-duty flatwork across southern Johnson County to Edgerton. We design to the point-loads a logistics corridor runs on, on ground that gives good bearing.

Southern Johnson County around Edgerton sits on shallow limestone, three to eight feet down under a clay-loam cap. That rock gives good bearing for heavy pavement, but the cap varies, so we probe it and build to a uniform k-value with subgrade stabilization where the clay runs deep, so a container pad is carried evenly instead of dishing over a soft pocket.

Under point-loads, joints are where slabs fail. We dowel the joints heavily at the container and queuing lanes so the panels transfer their loads across, and tie the pours so nothing steps under a reach-stacker. It is the bearing-and-joint read behind our concrete repair work.