Pavement Design Midland TX Engineered From Your Site Conditions
Pavement does not fail from the top down. It fails from the subgrade up. Magrym designs parking lots, streets, truck yards, and lease roads across Midland and the Permian Basin from the soil upward, so the section matches the ground and the traffic it actually carries.
DESIGNED FOR SUBGRADE CONDITIONS AND TRAFFIC LOADING
Magrym develops pavement sections based on subsurface conditions, material properties, anticipated traffic, and required service life. Our evaluations address subgrade strength, moisture sensitivity, collapsible or loosely cemented soils, expected axle loading, drainage, and construction conditions.
Pavement demands vary significantly across West Texas. Caliche crusts over loose silts and sands, and collapsible soils that lose strength when wetted, can undermine a section from below, while heavy truck traffic accelerates rutting and structural deterioration. Field sampling and laboratory testing provide the design parameters needed to select appropriate pavement materials, layer thicknesses, and subgrade stabilization where it is warranted.
Our services extend from subsurface exploration and laboratory testing through pavement recommendations and construction-phase materials testing. This continuity helps confirm that field conditions and installed materials are consistent with the design assumptions.
Sections for Every Duty Level
From a retail parking lot to a lease road pounded by haul trucks, the pavement structural design fits the traffic and the ground.
FLEXIBLE AND RIGID PAVEMENT DESIGN
Asphalt and concrete pavement alternatives evaluated based on traffic loading, subgrade conditions, constructability, anticipated service life, and project cost.
- Flexible pavement section design
- Rigid pavement section design
- Life-cycle cost and performance evaluation
Subgrade Evaluation and Stabilization
The subgrade decides the pavement. Subgrade evaluation samples it, tests it in the laboratory, and where the soils are weak, loose, or collapsible we design the lime, cement, or geogrid soil stabilization that makes the section dependable.
- Subgrade sampling and testing
- Lime and cement stabilization
- Geogrid and section alternatives
Parking Lots and Site Paving
Commercial lots, drives, and delivery aprons designed from the traffic data set for your project. Our pavement design for parking lots gives separate attention to heavy-load areas like dumpster pads and truck routes.
- Commercial parking lot design
- Heavy-duty aprons and pads
- Drainage-aware layout input
Streets and Public Roadways
Geotechnical evaluation and pavement section design for subdivision streets and public roadways, developed in accordance with applicable agency criteria and local material requirements.
- Subdivision and municipal pavement sections
- Agency criteria review and design coordination
- Utility trench backfill and pavement repair recommendations
Heavy-Duty and Lease Roads
Truck yards, laydown areas, and lease roads across the Permian Basin carry loads that destroy standard sections. We design for the traffic loading the oilfield actually produces, axle count by axle count.
- Truck yard and laydown design
- Lease and access roads
- Surfaced and unsurfaced options
PAVEMENT EVALUATION AND REHABILITATION
For distressed pavements, Magrym evaluates the type, severity, and probable causes of deterioration before developing repair and rehabilitation alternatives. Recommendations may include overlays, reconstruction, or stabilization based on existing conditions, performance objectives, constructability, and budget.
- Pavement condition and distress evaluation
- Overlay and rehabilitation design
- Maintenance and rehabilitation planning
Who Relies on Our Pavement Design
Anyone who owns pavement pays for it twice when it is designed wrong.
Developers and Commercial Owners
Parking is often the largest paved asset on a site. We design lots that survive the delivery trucks, not just the cars, and pass agency review the first time.
Energy, Oil and Gas
Lease roads, yards, and facility paving take punishment. We deliver pavement design for industrial facilities and the caliche, silt, and sand those sections sit on.
Municipalities and Districts
Public streets are long-term commitments. We provide the sections, stabilization designs, and testing that keep them in service and in budget.
Contractors and Builders
Paving contractors need buildable sections and fast answers. We deliver both, plus the compaction and materials testing that closes out the job.
The Lab Behind the Pavement
A pavement section is a claim about the subgrade, and we test the claim before we make it. Magrym samples the soils, runs the AASHTO accredited laboratory, and keeps the pavement engineering and the construction testing in Midland under one roof.
- Licensed Texas Professional Engineers
- Subgrade testing in our AASHTO-accredited lab
- Oilfield and heavy-traffic design experience
- Compaction and materials testing through construction
From Subgrade to Surface
A clear path, run by the same engineer, built for the traffic you actually have.
Traffic and Subgrade
We establish the real traffic, especially the trucks, and sample and test the subgrade it will ride on. Fixed-fee proposal up front.
Section Design
We complete the pavement structural design, flexible or rigid, with stabilization where the soils demand it, and compare the alternatives on cost and service life.
Plans and Review
You get sealed pavement recommendations and sections ready for the site plans and the reviewing agency.
Build and Verify
Our lab tests the compaction, base, asphalt, and concrete during construction, so the section built matches the section designed.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is the engineering that determines what a pavement needs underneath the surface: the thickness of asphalt or concrete, the base beneath it, and the subgrade preparation or stabilization below that, based on the traffic loads and the measured properties of the site soils. The surface course gets the attention, but the design lives or dies in the layers under it.
Usually because of what is underneath it. Caliche can be a thin cemented crust over loose material, and collapsible silts and sands lose strength when water reaches them, so a section can settle and crack from below. Add oilfield truck traffic to a section designed for cars and the failure arrives faster. Testing the subgrade and specifying soil stabilization where the data calls for it removes most of that risk before the first load is placed.
It depends on the traffic, the soils, the budget, and how the owner wants to pay: less up front with more maintenance, or more up front with less. Concrete resists heavy, concentrated loads and needs less upkeep; asphalt costs less initially and repairs progressively. We compare both honestly for the duty level and let the numbers make the case.
The layout being paved, the best available picture of the traffic, especially trucks and their frequency, and access to the site for subgrade sampling. If a geotechnical investigation already exists we build on it; if not, we sample and test the subgrade ourselves. From there the design is self-contained.
Yes. We start by establishing the cause, because an overlay on a failing subgrade fails again. Coring, subgrade sampling, and distress mapping tell us whether the problem is drainage, base, subgrade, or simply an underdesigned section. From there our pavement rehabilitation design services set out the options: mill and overlay, full-depth reclamation, stabilization, or reconstruction, with cost and expected life for each.
Yes. The same firm that designs the section tests it as it goes in: subgrade compaction, base density, asphalt cores and density, and concrete strength, all through our AASHTO-accredited laboratory. That closes the loop between the design and what was actually built, with one point of accountability.
Paving in West Texas?
Get a section designed for your ground and your traffic. Magrym provides pavement design
services in Midland, TX, backed by subgrade testing in our own AASHTO accredited laboratory
and construction testing through completion. Call (432) 999-2737 to get a fixed fee proposal this week.