West Virginia Paving & Pavement Contractors

What makes pavement work different in West Virginia?

Most West Virginia commercial pavement sits on a bench cut into a hillside, and how that bench was built matters more than what was paved on top of it.

• West Virginia licenses contractors through the Contractor Licensing Board, and the license is publicly verifiable — a first check that neighboring Pennsylvania and Kentucky do not offer for paving work.
• A large share of commercial sites are cut-and-fill benches, so the cut-to-fill transition line is the most predictable place for cracking and settlement to appear.
• Colluvium — loose material that has crept downslope over time — underlies many hillsides here and is prone to movement when it is loaded, cut into, or wetted.
• Water is the mechanism behind most West Virginia pavement failures, whether it is seepage emerging from a cut face, a spring under fill, or runoff concentrated by steep terrain.
• Abandoned mine workings and mine drainage affect some properties, and both settlement risk and water chemistry are worth establishing before design in coalfield areas.

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