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    RCG

    Commercial Site Works Contractor in Lexington, KY

    Drainage, retaining walls, pavers, irrigation, and grading across Fayette County. Designed for LFUCG's Industrial and High-Risk Commercial Stormwater program. KEPSC-qualified, UK HealthCare campus experience.

    Lexington's Commercial Pipeline Is Anchored by UK HealthCare

    UK HealthCare's $2.4B–$4.4B master plan — including the $500M Cancer & Advanced Ambulatory Building completing 2027 — is the single largest demand vector for commercial construction in the Lexington metro. The associated site work alone (drainage, retaining walls, walkways, parking integration) generates a multi-year pipeline that local landscape install contractors can't fully cover. RCG's Site Works division operates across Fayette County, designs drainage to LFUCG's actual Industrial and High-Risk Commercial Stormwater Runoff Program requirements, and brings KEPSC-qualified inspector capacity for KY jobs ≥1 acre. We compete in Lexington primarily against Klausing Group — the cleanest local commercial competitor — and we differentiate on GC integration, Cincinnati-corridor project management capacity, and explicit ICPI/NCMA hardscape certifications.

    • LFUCG Industrial & High-Risk Commercial Stormwater: Annual compliance obligations under LFUCG's program — drainage retrofits, detention upgrades, and post-construction BMPs designed to the local rule.
    • UK HealthCare Campus Site Work: Drainage, retaining wall, walkway, and parking scope on UK HealthCare's expansion campus — coordinated with the broader $2.4B+ master plan.
    • Commonwealth Office Districts: Site work for state government office buildings, judicial centers, and Commonwealth-related commercial properties.
    • Equine & Agricultural-Adjacent Commercial: Lexington's equine industry generates commercial site work scope (drainage, hardscape, retaining walls at grade transitions) for the support businesses around the horse farm corridor.
    • KEPSC-Qualified Erosion Control: Required for KY jobs ≥1 acre under KYR10.

    UK HealthCare Campus Capable

    UK HealthCare's master plan — Cancer & Advanced Ambulatory Building, surgical expansion, infrastructure — is generating multi-year site work demand. Our ICRA training and OSHA-30 credentials transfer as soft credentials for healthcare campus exterior scope, where dust management, traffic coordination, and infection-prevention adjacency matter.

    LFUCG Stormwater Aware

    Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's Industrial and High-Risk Commercial Stormwater Runoff Program imposes annual compliance obligations on commercial properties — including required SWPPP submittals due Jan 31 each year for industrial-classified sites. We design to the actual LFUCG rule and we coordinate with LFUCG inspectors during permit and inspection.

    Differentiating Against Klausing Group, Hillenmeyer, Diamond

    Lexington's commercial landscape install market is led by Klausing Group (the strongest competitor — robust content marketing, real green-infrastructure capability), HLM Landscape Services (formerly Hillenmeyer, post-2024 rebrand, equine and maintenance-dominant), and Diamond Landscapes (snow-fleet-led, weak install positioning). RCG differentiates with explicit ICPI/NCMA certifications Klausing doesn't foreground, GC-integration capacity, and Cincinnati-corridor project management capacity.

    Lexington Commercial Site Works FAQs

    Yes — all of Lexington and Fayette County, including the UK and downtown corridors, the Tates Creek and Hamburg commercial districts, and the Versailles Road industrial corridor. For Bourbon, Scott, Jessamine, or Madison County work, we evaluate project-by-project based on scope.

    Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government runs an Industrial and High-Risk Commercial Stormwater Runoff Program that imposes annual compliance obligations on commercial properties classified as industrial or high-risk commercial. SWPPP submittals are due January 31 each year. Drainage retrofits and post-construction BMPs we install for Lexington commercial properties are designed to LFUCG's specific rule, not a national rule of thumb.

    RCG's commercial GC business has healthcare campus experience including ICRA-relevant work. The Site Works division extends that into exterior scope on healthcare campuses. We're actively pursuing prequalification with UK HealthCare for the active master plan pipeline, and we welcome direct engagement with UK Construction Services and Plant Services.

    Both, honestly. RCG is headquartered in Crescent Springs (Northern Kentucky, about 75 miles north of Lexington), and we've operated across Kentucky for years. We're not a Lexington-only contractor — but we're not a "Cincinnati firm parachuting in for one job" either. Our project teams handle Lexington work consistently and we hold the relevant Kentucky-state credentials including KEPSC inspector qualification.

    Klausing Group is the cleanest local commercial competitor and the highest content-marketing benchmark in the Lexington market. We compete by being install-only (Klausing balances install with maintenance), by leading with explicit ICPI/NCMA hardscape certifications (which Klausing has but doesn't foreground), and by offering GC integration for Lexington facility managers who'd otherwise hire two contractors for an interior + exterior scope. Hillenmeyer (now HLM Landscape Services) is heavily maintenance-dominant; we don't compete with their core business and we don't see overlap on the install side.

    Site Works Services

    Retaining WallsDrainagePaversIrrigationSite GradingErosion ControlSodPlantings

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