Crushing and screening of on-site materials allows Gould Construction to significantly reduce construction costs
and trucking operations for a wide variety of processed materials including spec structural fill and topsoil. Industry standards now require that structural backfill and fill materials all meet a 4” minus specification. Our crushing equipment has the capabilities of processing material with rock up to 2 feet in diameter to meet this specification.
As a part of the Snowmass Base Village project, Gould Construction processed over 40,000 cubic yards of on site materials for structural backfill eliminating the need to export this material off site.

This equipment also allows us to recycle all concrete and masonry materials on projects that require a significant amount of demolition of existing structures. For example on a recent demolition job in Glenwood Springs we were able to reduce the volume of material going to the landfill by 30% by crushing all foundations and masonry components of the buildings. The material was stockpiled on site to be used for future construction. 

Our screening equipment allows us to process a wide variety of materials to landscape grade topsoil. Typically
in Colorado most topsoil’s can have a significant amount of rock that will not meet landscape specifications.
By screening this topsoil, the need to import expensive soils is eliminated and costs reduced. The processing
of onsite materials and the reduction of trucking to import and/or export materials for a project can often
significantly contribute to LEED certifications for owners.