Site Grading
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Grading in civil engineering and construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage. The earthworks created for such a purpose are often called the sub-grade or finished contouring.
Transportation
In the case of gravel roads and earthworks for certain purposes, grading forms not just the base but the cover and surface of the finished construction, and is often called finished grade.
Environmental design
In the environmental design professions grading is a specifications and construction component in landscape design, landscape architecture, and architecture projects. It is used for buildings or outdoor amenities regarding foundations and footings, slope terracing and stabilizing, aesthetic contouring, and directing surface runoff drainage of stormwater and domestic/irrigation runoff flows.[1]
Subgrade
In transport engineering, subgrade is the native material underneath a constructed road, pavement or railway (US: railroad) track. It is also called formation level.
The term can also refer to imported material that has been used to build an embankment.
Construction
Subgrades are commonly compacted before the construction of a road, pavement or railway track, and are sometimes stabilized by the addition of asphalt, soil cement, portland cement or lime. The subgrade is the foundation of the pavement structure, on which the subbase is laid.
Preparation of the subgrade for construction usually involves digging, in order to remove surface vegetation, topsoil and other unwanted material, and to create space for the upper layer of the pavement. This process is known as subgrade formation or reduction to level.[2]
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_(engineering)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgrade
Ludlow Engineering and Land Surveying reviews house plans for structural items and components. House plan engineering gives the contractors and the building inspectors the designs of posts, beams, headers, sheer wall and more. Most of the time these reviews are required by the municipalities of the governing bodies.
