Reliable Excavation & Paving Services for DeKalb Properties
For more than 35 years, the Beeman family has worked the ground across DeKalb, IL, beginning with an earthwork company before Timothy Beeman launched Beeman Excavating in 2016. That depth of experience makes us a trusted name for excavation and site work throughout DeKalb and the surrounding DeKalb County area. We handle commercial site development, site preparation, excavation, demolition, land grading, drainage, utility trenching, land clearing, dirt removal, sewer and water line installation, and foundation excavation. We also offer full-service asphalt paving, including new construction, paving, repair, sealcoating, milling, crack repair, and drainage and catch basin repair. For homeowners, we provide foundation excavation, farm drainage and tile installation, land clearing, site preparation, and asphalt driveway paving and repair.
What sets us apart in DeKalb is straightforward: you work directly with the owners. There is no chain of approvals and no waiting on someone else to sign off. We make the decisions and put our name and face on every project. Our crews are OSHA-certified and cross-trained across our full range of services, which lets us run several jobs at once while holding the same standard of quality on each one. We have also invested in the best equipment available, so we arrive with the machinery and technology to get the work done right the first time.
As a family-owned business built to be handed down to future generations, we have been part of this community our whole lives and plan to stay. Contact Beeman Excavating today for a free estimate on your DeKalb, IL excavation or paving project.
THE BEEMAN
ADVANTAGE
OWNER-OPERATED ACCOUNTABILITY
You deal directly with the Beemans, the decision-makers who put their name on every DeKalb project from start to finish.
35+ YEARS IN THE GROUND
Three-plus decades of earthwork experience inform how we approach excavation, grading, and drainage on DeKalb sites.
OSHA-CERTIFIED, CROSS-TRAINED CREWS
Our teams are trained across every service we offer, letting us run multiple DeKalb jobs without sacrificing quality.
BUILT FOR THE LONG HAUL
A family business meant to outlast us, invested in the latest equipment to deliver lasting work at a reasonable price.
DeKalb, IL
DeKalb sits about 60 miles west of Chicago and serves as the economic anchor of DeKalb County, home to roughly 40,000 residents and Northern Illinois University, the city’s largest employer. Known historically as “”Barb City,”” the birthplace of barbed wire, DeKalb has grown into a hub for logistics and manufacturing, with major distribution operations from 3M, Target, Nestle, and Ferrara Candy clustered along the Interstate 88 and Interstate 39 corridors. That mix of large commercial sites, established neighborhoods near the NIU campus, and surrounding farmland gives Beeman Excavating a wide range of work, from foundation excavation and utility trenching to farm drainage and tile installation across the county.
DeKalb’s humid continental climate brings hot summers and cold, snowy winters, and the repeated freeze-thaw cycles are hard on asphalt and unstable on poorly drained ground. The area’s rich prairie soils hold moisture, so proper grading and drainage are essential to keep parking lots, driveways, and foundations from heaving or cracking. Around the Route 23 retail district and the warehouse corridors near the highways, heavy traffic loads demand a stable, well-prepared base before any paving begins. We account for these DeKalb conditions on every project, building drainage and compaction into the plan so the finished surface lasts through the seasons.
