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Inside and around the Perimeter
The same climate covers the whole metro, but the properties, the terrain and the traffic change from one county to the next.
Heat, sun and heavy rain act on every lot in the region, so the underlying causes of pavement failure are shared from Kennesaw to Stone Mountain. What differs is the kind of property and the ground it sits on. Hillside office parks shed runoff into their lowest corners. Warehouse sites along the interstates carry loaded trucks that park, pivot and drop trailers. Wooded suburbs push roots under pavement edges and bury drains in leaves. Older close-in lots carry layer after layer of past repairs.
The four pages below each take one of those patterns and walk through what it means for the pavement and for a sensible scope of work.
On a hillside lot in Cobb County, the pavement problem usually starts with where the water goes
Many commercial lots across Cobb County were carved out of a hillside, with part of the pad cut into the slope and part built up on fill. That history decides where rain travels once it lands on the asphalt, and on most of these properties the path the water takes explains the damage better than the age of the surface does.
Truck courts and loading aprons in Gwinnett County carry loads a car lot never sees
Along the I-85 corridor through Gwinnett County, a large share of commercial pavement exists to move trailers rather than park cars. Distribution buildings, flex-industrial parks and service yards in Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Duluth, Lawrenceville and Buford all share a basic problem: one site holds two very different kinds of traffic, and the pavement has to be designed and maintained for each of them separately.
In North Fulton, pavement is judged by how it looks and managed around the people who use it
Office campuses in Alpharetta and Sandy Springs, apartment communities in Roswell and homeowner associations in Johns Creek and Milton tend to share two traits. They hold their pavement to a high visual standard, and they sit under some of the heaviest tree canopy in the metro area. Both shape what a maintenance plan should look like and how the work has to be carried out.
Older DeKalb County lots carry decades of repairs, and each layer changes the next decision
Retail strips along older corridors, church campuses, school grounds and apartment complexes across DeKalb County often have pavement that has been resurfaced several times since it was first built. In Decatur, Tucker, Dunwoody and Stone Mountain, many of these lots have reached a point where the next round of repairs is a real decision rather than a routine one, and understanding what is already there is the first step.
These pages describe the metro rather than draw a boundary around it. A property in Clayton, Henry, Cherokee, Forsyth or anywhere else in the region deals with the same heat, the same rain and the same clay, so the lack of a dedicated page for it means nothing in particular. Tell the contractor where the property is and what it is used for, and the walk starts from there.
Talk through your site
Start with the address, roughly how many square feet, and photographs of the worst areas and anywhere water sits after a storm.