Residential earthworks and site works
House pads, site cuts, retaining prep and driveways for Perth builders. We work to your build program, so the pad is finished and tested before the slab crew arrives.
A pad your slab crew can start on
On a residential block the earthworks are rarely the hard part. The program is. Every day the pad is not ready is a day the slab crew, the brickies and everyone behind them are standing still, and that cost lands on you rather than on us.
We work the sequence as one job: clear the envelope, cut the block down to the platform level on your site plan, build the sand pad up in layers, and compact it. Test results come back before the pour, not after it, so nobody is standing on a pad wondering whether it will pass.
What the block is actually sitting on
Two blocks in the same suburb can price very differently, and it is almost always what is under them. The Bassendean sand through the northern and eastern growth corridors cuts and compacts easily. The Spearwood belt out towards the coast sits on Tamala limestone, which turns a routine site cut into a rock job. The Pinjarra Plain along the eastern margin is reactive clay that goes to mud in winter. The Hills are laterite over granite, with duricrust and floaters to break.
We walk the block before quoting and price for the ground you have. On a sloping lot that means saying early how much fill is coming in, how much retaining the levels will need and whether there is rock in the cut, rather than leaving any of it to turn up as a variation.
We hold the dates we give you
Builders do not change earthworks contractors over price. They change over a contractor who does not turn up. We book the dates we can genuinely hold, and if something moves you hear it from us before it affects the trades behind us.
You get one supervisor across your jobs rather than a different number each time, which matters when you are running several blocks at once and need someone who already knows the sites. We sequence around your surveyor, your retaining contractor and your slab crew so the block is handed over ready, not almost ready.
From the first cut to the driveway
Most residential blocks need an earthworks contractor twice: once before the slab, and once after the trades have finished. Splitting that across two contractors means two mobilisations, two inductions and an argument about who left the rubble.
We cover the whole sequence. Clearing, cut and pad before the pour. Service trench backfill, retaining prep and final trim during the build. Limestone driveway and crossover, spoil removal and clean-up at the end, so the block is ready for landscaping and handover.
Typical residential work
The scopes we price most often for builders and owner-builders across the Perth metro region.
What's included
Clearing vegetation, grubbing roots and stripping topsoil off the building envelope, with material stockpiled for reuse or carted off with dockets.
Cutting a sloping or uneven block down to the platform level on the site plan, with spoil balanced on site wherever the levels allow.
Clean sand placed in layers, moisture conditioned and compacted to the level and extent your site plan calls for.
Testing by an independent NATA accredited laboratory, with the results in your hands before the pour rather than after it.
Benching, trimming and backfill behind limestone or block retaining, sequenced so the retaining contractor is not waiting on us.
Final trim, service trench backfill and the tidy-up around the footprint before the pour.
Driveway and crossover formation, limestone base and compaction, ready for the finished surface.
Rubble, spoil and offcut removal once the trades are finished, so the block is ready for landscaping.
The services behind a residential job
Bulk Earthworks
Cut and fill, bulk excavation and site levelling for residential, commercial and industrial developments across the Perth metro region.
Civil Construction
Road construction, stormwater and sewer drainage, retaining and civil infrastructure for subdivisions and commercial developments.
Commercial Earthworks in Perth
ProWest Contracting delivers commercial earthworks, earthmoving and excavation across Perth for builders, developers and civil contractors. We clear the site, run the bulk cut and fill, and build the compacted platforms, hardstands and access roads. Then we hand it over on the booked date, ready for your next trade.
Dam Construction
For those who need reliable water storage for livestock, irrigation, or rainwater harvesting, ProWest Contracting has extensive experience delivering farm dam construction built to hold water from day one.
Siteworks
Site clearing, site cut, sand pad construction, compaction and pre pour preparation for builders and developers.
Subdivision Works
Complete civil packages for land developers, from raw land through to lots ready for clearance and titles.
Jobs we have delivered
Bulk Earthworks · Siteworks Malaga Commercial Site Preparation
Complete site transformation of a 7,000m² commercial block in Malaga, from vegetation clearing through to construction-ready pad preparation.
Bulk Earthworks · Siteworks · Subdivisions Chittering Residential Earthworks & Site Preparation
A comprehensive earthworks and site preparation package for a residential project in Chittering, transforming a challenging, rock-affected site into a fully prepared and certified building platform.
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