New home build, and adjacent land clearing...

This is where they lose me! I understand you are pouring a wall, which in turn will have pilings in the center to support "beams" that will hold up the subfloor...but the huge gap in the 1st and 3rd picture, gap is not the right word. But why a form on both sides? According to the concrete guy that gap will be filled with concrete. The back in photo 1 which will lead to the patio, and the front entry photo 3...why do you need a 4 foot "pad of concrete? You certainly are not filling in the "body of the main area...

Not a builder although most of the family are so Golly is likely to be the best commentator but on a couple of houses I've done laboring on to help out that had a crawl space a slab was laid under the wet areas.

Not sure if that is what you are seeing though without knowing the floor layout relative to the pics.

Cheers

good to see you are back home so oversee this build lol
i mean to post pics

i like the formwork with brickwork pattern
hyspan joists are use here in oz
they are light weight and uniform size and super strong once in configoration

1 question why the gravel under the house?

are they laying plywood or particle board flooring

is it true you yanks prefer to screw than nail?

The gravel will likely be to add thermal mass, not able to see if any underfloor heating is going in, could be, where Bentley is building is a lovely part of the world but can get very chilly.

Apart from hanging pictures I don't think I or any of my builder family really use nails for much of anything, screws are so much better. I recall way back dad bought a nailgun for site work and very quickly put it under lock and key, dangerous things

It's a massive generalisation but the quality of building work in the US, Canada and UK tends to be of a much higher standard than here in Australia from my and my families experience - WA is especially bad from the places I've owned here. It could almost persuade me to owner-build - almost

I'm sure that is not true of builders like Golly but the WA attitude seems to be build for a finite life, knock it down, build new, all the value being in the land. Until I came to Australia apart from briefly living in one of dad's spec houses I'd never lived in a house less than 150 years old, try that in Australia

My current place is maybe 45 years old, built pretty well, much better than the last place that was 16 years old - sad but true.

Cheers

Looks like wind bracing onto the leger, Rim boards not doing anything but brace the hyspan.
So they bolted the ledger down if booker rod or bent over the rio if it is rio.
Man Ide love to visit for a close up looksee