Excavation & Land Management

Southwest Contracting was the first excavation contractor in the Lower Mainland to combine excavation with shoring to serve our clients.

Backed by 50 years of proven dependability, Southwest Contracting delivers complex bulk excavations up to 100 feet deep and long-term landfill management programs. We power your project with a diverse, specialized fleet of all sizes of equipment—including telescopic and long-reach excavators, dozers, rock trucks, and packers—built to handle the region’s toughest earthmoving challenges. Partnering directly with clients, consultants, and engineers from day one, we provide the design-assist expertise and precision execution required to ensure your project stays on schedule and budget.

Southwest Contracting was the first excavation contractor in the Lower Mainland to combine excavation with shoring to serve our clients.

Related Projects

Projects

Related Projects

BC Children’s Hospital Design Build – Teck Acute Care Centre

Vancouver

Southwest Contracting was awarded the contract for bulk excavation, shotcrete shoring, and onsite civil works to prepare the foundation for the landmark Teck Acute Care Centre. The team managed complex earthworks and site servicing and assisted with precision as-built construction to support the eight-storey medical facility. Operating directly within an active healthcare campus, our crews successfully navigated these intricate civil constraints with zero disruption to surrounding critical hospital operations.

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Bevan Townhomes

Burnaby

The Bevan project is a 366-unit townhouse development being undertaken for Burnaby Housing Corporation and managed by Mosaic Ave Construction. SWC was contracted to perform all earthworks, underground utility installations, retaining wall construction, and site grading. Throughout the project, SWC will move approximately 90,000 m3 of excavation material and place approximately 20,000 m3 of fill to achieve the final site design.

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Burquitlam 602 Clarke Road

Coquitlam

Two towers and a low-rise building in the heart of Burquitlam. The first phase of the Burquitlam Park District will introduce 40- and 33-storey condo towers, housing a total of 663 strata homes. Excavating 150,000 m³ of material Shoring 8,300 m² of shotcrete wall Drilling 35,800 m of anchors

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Cameron Community Centre

Burnaby

Construction of a new community centre includes an array of new features, including two new swimming pools, a weight room, fitness area, double gym, café, and teaching and catering spaces. The project includes bulk excavation and shotcrete shoring, detailed excavation and backfill, and onsite civil construction. The new library will be four times larger than the original Cameron facility.

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Citizen

Burnaby

Citizen is a 66-storey tower set to become one of Metrotown's tallest skyscrapers in Burnaby, BC. SWC was awarded the excavation and shoring for this 70-ft deep parkade. Excavation included remediation of contaminated material from existing grade down to the bottom of the excavation. This presented unique challenges to ensure our workers remained safe throughout the project and contaminated material was delineated from clean material limiting additional costs for Anthem Properties. The project started July 2024 and finished October 2025.

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While larger projects such as the Vancouver Convention Center have been noteworthy, smaller projects to install shear walls within existing buildings are becoming commonplace as new codes for seismic upgrading are implemented. Our 20 or so machines cover the full spectrum of services required of any comprehensive Lower Mainland excavation contractor.