Commercial Concrete Contractor in Round Rock, Texas
Heritage Concrete Austin serves Round Rock, Texas, as a commercial concrete contractor, building site paving, fire lanes, drive approaches, building slabs and public sidewalks for offices, warehouses, data centers, hotels and stores. The City's financial report for fiscal 2024 describes Switch building a 1.5-million-square-foot data center campus, called The Rock, next to Dell.
Round Rock is on Interstate 35 in south-central Williamson County, sixteen miles north of downtown Austin by the Handbook of Texas, and began in 1848 when blacksmith Jacob M. Harrell set up shop on the north bank of Brushy Creek. Its landmarks run from the restored limestone buildings of Old Town to the Dell Diamond, the Premium Outlets on University Boulevard and 670-acre Old Settlers Park, and by the Census Bureau's estimates for July 1, 2025, 139,317 residents live on the Williamson County side and 1,965 in Travis County. We price from drawings, a site plan or a marked-up aerial.
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Employers and projects shaping the city
Dell moved its global headquarters to Round Rock in 1994, and in April 2024 the City extended its economic development agreement with the company from 2053 to 2099. The City estimates Dell's Round Rock staff at 12,000 in 2024, down from 14,000 in 2015, and Dell is still its largest property and sales taxpayer.
Distribution, cold storage and manufacturing
UPS opened a $70 million, 225,000-square-foot regional distribution center on fifty acres near SH 45 and A.W. Grimes Boulevard in late 2018. Amazon's 2021 delivery station at the Chisholm Trail Center, near I-35 and Old Settlers Boulevard, is three industrial buildings totaling 440,000 square feet. Triple Temp Cold Storage opened a 125,000-square-foot plant near Bratton Lane on November 2, 2023; Valex opened its first Texas plant in an existing 60,000-square-foot building in the Crystal Park business development; and Tekscend Photomasks, in Round Rock since 1986, picked its existing site for a near $200 million expansion.
Hotels, offices and apartments
Kalahari Resorts opened in November 2020 with 975 guest rooms, a 150,000-square-foot conference center and a 223,000-square-foot indoor and outdoor water park, and an Embassy Suites hotel and conference center followed on May 3, 2022, near Bass Pro Shops and the Premium Outlets. Emerson's $70 million, 282,000-square-foot international headquarters opened in January 2014. In 2024, five of the City's ten largest property taxpayers were apartment owners.
Where growth goes next
The City projects more than 161,000 people inside city limits by 2030 and expects most long-range growth in northeast Round Rock, where large tracts are still open. Its Round Rock 2030 plan, adopted June 25, 2020, keeps single-family homes as the main land use while planning higher-density development at strategic locations, and new industrial development may not be built within 500 feet of single-family or two-family homes.
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(512) 588-2862Site development permits and pavement design
Round Rock requires a Site Development Permit for site work on every property other than single-family and duplex lots, and for changes to existing sites such as relocating curb cuts or driveways or changing the total parking. Where one is required, no building permit is issued until it is approved and a pre-construction meeting has been held.
Small Site Permits
A limited scope of work, such as enlarging an existing or approved parking area, can go through a Small Site Permit instead, provided it needs no traffic impact analysis, no utility extensions or drainage improvements, and touches no floodplain.
The geotechnical study and retaining walls
Before the full site permit, a geotechnical study with the pavement designs must be approved or waived by the City. Retaining walls need a design sheet with calculations under International Building Code sections 1610 and 1807, referenced to that geotechnical report.
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(512) 588-2862Fire lanes, commercial approaches and sidewalks
The Round Rock Fire Department's general notes, dated August 20, 2025, require fire access roads of all-weather asphalt or concrete designed to carry an 80,000-lb apparatus; base material is not acceptable, grades may not exceed 7%, and no grade break may exceed 3%. The same notes call for 26-foot lanes where traffic runs both ways, buildings exceed 30 feet or three stories, total building area tops 62,000 square feet, or hydrants line the road.
Widths and turning radii
The City's Transportation Criteria Manual sets fire lanes at a minimum clear 20 feet for one-way and 26 feet for two-way traffic, with 25-foot inside and 50-foot outside turning radii, and both driveways and fire lanes must keep an all-weather surface during construction as well as after it.
Type II driveways and street cuts
Approaches for any use beyond one- or two-family homes are Type II concrete driveways. Built two-way and undivided, it must be 25 to 40 feet wide on local and collector streets and 30 to 45 feet on arterials. Work that cuts, breaks or damages a sidewalk or roadway in the right-of-way needs a Street Cut permit, and a commercial approach permit costs $200.00, subject to change on review.
Registration, bonding and insurance
For street-cut and approach work, the City requires the contractor and every subcontractor to be registered, each with a current certificate of insurance on file, the main contractor to be bonded with the City, and insurance certificates totaling $1,000,000.00.
Public sidewalks
Public sidewalks must be at least 4 feet wide on local and collector streets, with a 5-by-5-foot passing space every 200 feet, and 6 feet on arterials. A walk closer than 3 feet to the roadway must be 5 feet wide, or 6 feet where it runs against the back of the curb.
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(512) 588-2862Blackland clay east of I-35, limestone to the west
Round Rock straddles the Balcones Escarpment, a fault line: roughly east of I-35 the land is flat with black Blackland Prairie soils, and to the west it rises into hilly, karst-like ground with little topsoil. The Handbook of Texas traces the escarpment through Williamson County along a line from Jarrell to Georgetown to Round Rock, with dark loamy-to-clayey blackland soils east of it and loamy soils over limey subsoils west of it. Locally, the prairie soil is known as black waxy for its high clay content.
Where the Census Bureau pins the city's internal point, USDA's soil survey shows Krum silty clay, its uppermost layer 45% clay with a linear extensibility, a gauge of shrinking and swelling, of 7.5%. It is a single sample point, so lots elsewhere in Round Rock can differ. The City of Austin's Transportation Criteria Manual draws on swell tests of Eagle Ford Clay taken at Hester's Crossing and IH 35, and singles out the drying cycle as the stage when most structural distress tends to happen.
A town named for limestone
Round Rock takes its name from a large, anvil-shaped limestone rock in Brushy Creek, near where the Chisholm Trail crossed, and within a year of the 1876 railroad the town had a lime plant run by William Walsh.
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(512) 588-2862Homes, other services and nearby towns
For homes, the City lists concrete flatwork on private residential property (sidewalks, walkways, driveways and driveway extensions) among projects that need no permit but must be built to code; the concrete apron in the right-of-way is excluded from that, and a residential approach permit is $50.00. About 64% of the city's housing units are single-family detached and about 28% are in buildings holding five units or more (Census Bureau, 2020-2024 estimates). Alongside commercial work we pour parking lots, tilt-wall panels, warehouse floors and curb and gutter, handle repairs, and build home driveways and patios.
Heritage Concrete Austin takes care of concrete driveway repair in Brushy Creek, off Farm Road 620 just west of the city, and raises settled walks and drives through concrete leveling in Wells Branch.
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(512) 588-2862How a commercial job here is sequenced
General practice, following the City's own permit order.
Takeoff and free estimate
We price paving, slabs, approaches and fire lanes from the drawings or site plan.
Geotechnical study
The study and its pavement designs go to the City for approval or a waiver before the site permit.
Site permit and pre-construction meeting
Building permits wait until both are done.
Right-of-way permits
Street cuts and approaches are permitted separately, by registered contractors with insurance on file.
Access, then final paving
Drives and fire lanes keep an all-weather surface through construction before the finished pavement goes down.
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(512) 588-2862Commercial concrete questions in Round Rock
What should I check before hiring a concrete contractor in Round Rock?
Start with what Round Rock asks of anyone working in its streets: registration for the contractor and every subcontractor, a certificate of insurance on file for each, bonding for the main contractor and $1,000,000.00 in insurance certificates. Texas itself has no state license for general contractors, so the Texas Attorney General's advice applies too: collect written bids from several contractors, treat a bid that looks too low with care, and hire one with an established physical address.
Does a driveway or sidewalk at a home in Round Rock need a permit?
Not on the private lot. The City lists residential flatwork, including sidewalks, walkways, driveways and driveway extensions, among projects that need no permit but must still be built to code. The concrete apron in the right-of-way is the exception: work that cuts the street or sidewalk needs a Street Cut permit, and a residential approach permit costs $50.00.
Free pricing for commercial concrete work
Call, or send plans or a site sketch. Heritage Concrete Austin prices site paving, fire lanes, approaches and building slabs without charge, at any hour.