A trimmed house pad of orange clay being compacted by a ride-on roller, with houses and a paddock fence behind

Services

Bulk Earthmoving

At BHC we can cover all your bulk earthmoving requirements, from cut to engineered fill and final trimming of engineered designs with GPS to small and large scale land contouring.

Cut to fill, trimmed to the design

Bulk earthmoving is the big-volume part of a project: stripping the topsoil, cutting the high ground and placing it as engineered fill where the design needs it, then contouring and trimming the finished levels. Beacon Hill Contracting has done this work on Waikato farms and building sites for 25 years, from major farm conversions to civil works.

Our machines trim engineered designs with GPS, so the finished surface matches the engineer's drawings rather than a best guess, and the same team builds the erosion and sediment controls the site needs while the ground is open.

Jobs range from a single house pad to large scale land contouring. Site clearance comes first when there is something in the way, and our trucks bring material in and take spoil out.

A yellow excavator working in a wide sandy cut beside a stockpile of dark soil

What bulk earthmoving covers

House pads and commercial building sites

Platforms cut and filled to the engineer's levels and trimmed with GPS, ready for the builder.

Contouring, batters and benches

Land contouring from small scale to large, with batters and benches cut to a stable grade.

Cut to engineered fill

Material taken from the cut and placed as engineered fill to the design, with site lasers and GPS to check the levels.

Effluent and irrigation ponds

Ponds shaped and built for farm effluent and irrigation, with the general tidy ups that finish a farm job.

Consents, controls and the winter shutdown

Earthworks on steep slopes, close to water or on a large scale may need a resource consent from Waikato Regional Council. Most consents require a pre-construction meeting with the council, an erosion and sediment control plan, and as-built certification of the controls once they are built; the council's earthworks guidelines and as-built certification sheets set out what it expects. Most consents also require works to stop between 30 April and 30 September unless the council has approved winter works in writing, so timing matters. We have worked alongside local and regional councils on project consents for over 10 years and can tell you early what your job will need.