Lake Hills Reserve
Lake Hills Reserve is a hillside residential community in Riverside. Like most Inland Empire hillside development, the project's economics were determined by earthwork and by the sequence in which infrastructure was delivered.
The construction challenge
Riverside County hillside residential combines the technical demands of slope construction with the phasing demands of production housing. Grading has to create developable pads across varied topography while balancing cut and fill within each phase, because hauling material between phases or importing from offsite adds cost that the pro forma frequently cannot absorb.
Inland geology differs meaningfully from coastal San Diego. Expansive soils, rock and rippability in foothill areas, and remedial grading requirements set by the geotechnical report can move earthwork quantities substantially, and they vary over short distances.
Infrastructure delivery has to keep pace with vertical production without running ahead of it. Horizontal work that finishes late idles an entire building operation. Horizontal work that finishes years early is capital sitting in the ground earning nothing. The phasing plan reconciles those two pressures, and it is worth modeling carefully.
Water infrastructure in the Inland Empire is more constraining than on the coast. Pressure zones, storage requirements, and district standards frequently drive infrastructure obligations that concept level budgets do not contemplate.
Outcome and takeaway
The value of owner side management on production residential is continuity of lot delivery. Every phase that arrives late costs a builder more than the infrastructure itself.
See residential development and Riverside County.
- Project
- Lake Hills Reserve
- Location
- Riverside, California
- Sector
- Residential Development
- Firm role
- Preconstruction and construction management services
- Licensure
- California A General Engineering Contractor #777345
- Further detail
- Additional project information is available on request. Contact us.
Scope elements
The categories of work this project type involves.
- Hillside mass grading and slope construction
- Remedial grading and geotechnical compliance
- Backbone wet and dry utility infrastructure
- Water system and pressure zone infrastructure
- Storm drain, detention, and water quality facilities
- Street and frontage improvements
- Phase sequencing and lot delivery
- Subdivision bonding and agency acceptance
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