Pipeline
Construction
Water, sewer, and drainage pipelines — any diameter, any material, any subsurface condition. Rock, groundwater, live utilities, occupied streets: we've worked in all of it.
Any Pipe,
Any Ground
Pipeline construction is won or lost in the ground — in how you handle the rock, the water, the existing utilities, and the pipe joints that aren't in the specification. We've worked in every New England soil condition and aren't surprised by any of them.
18" through 72" gravity and pressure pipe installation. Rock excavation, dewatering, concrete cradle, and tie-in to existing system — self-performed with our own equipment crew.
Gravity sewer installation with manholes, cleanouts, and service connections. Force main installation for pump station discharge lines — HDPE, PVC, or ductile iron per system design pressure.
Drain pipe from catch basins to outfalls — RCP, HDPE, and CMP in all sizes. Outfall structures, detention pipes, and catch basin arrays for municipal road reconstruction and commercial sites.
House service installations, meter setters, hydrant replacements, and valve work — performed in coordination with main installation or as standalone programs between major contracts.
Controlled blasting and hydraulic breaking for pipeline work through ledge. Rock excavation permits coordinated with the municipality. Blast monitoring for adjacent occupied structures where required.
Ductile iron, PVC, HDPE, RCP, and steel — our crews are certified and field-experienced across every material used in New England municipal construction. No material is subcontracted out.
The Field
Protocol
The pipe specification is the easy part. Everything before the pipe goes in — locating, potholing, shoring, bedding — and everything after — testing, tie-ins, restoration — is where the contract gets won or lost.
All subsurface utilities marked and potholed before excavation. Conflicts reported to the engineer before any installation begins. No "we'll figure it out in the trench" approach.
Excavation to design grade with OSHA Subpart P shoring per soil type and depth. Bedding prepared and graded before pipe is lowered. Groundwater controlled before bedding begins.
Pipe installed to grade and alignment, joints made per manufacturer requirements. Deflection angles checked and logged for each section. Service connections located, marked, and protected.
Air or hydrostatic leakage testing, deflection mandrel for flexible pipe, CCTV for sewer installations. No tie-in until tests are cleared and documented for the engineer of record.
Where We
Run It
Municipal utilities, trunk mains, private development, and infrastructure replacement — pipeline work cuts across every sector. We've installed pipe in greenfield sites and in the middle of Boston's oldest streets.
Complete gravity sewer installation for collection system extensions, road reconstruction projects, and I/I reduction replacement programs — with manholes, cleanouts, and service stubs.
New water main installation coordinated with distribution system replacement programs — sized and specified for fire flow compliance and designed for service life exceeding 100 years.
Storm drainage networks from individual catch basins to outfall structures — RCP, HDPE, and CMP in all diameters. Municipal road reconstruction and commercial site drainage systems.
Pressure sewer discharge mains from pump stations to receiving systems — HDPE, PVC, or ductile iron per design pressure and corrosion requirements. Pressure testing furnished before acceptance.
Pipeline installation in narrow streets, congested underground utility corridors, and under active traffic. We've operated in Boston's most constrained environments with full traffic management.
Large-diameter trunk mains requiring specialized lifting equipment, rock excavation, and complex dewatering. Concrete encasement and special fittings where soil conditions or crossings require it.
How We
Qualify It
Every pipeline installation is tested before it's accepted. Every trench is shored per OSHA. Every joint is made per spec. That's not a differentiator — it's a baseline. What we add is 40 years of field judgment on when the spec doesn't cover what's in the ground.
All pipeline work is performed under our own crews and equipment — no subcontracting on pipe installation, bedding, or backfill. We carry our own shoring equipment and run our own dewatering systems.
As-built surveys are furnished in the client's preferred format. Hydrostatic and leakage test reports are documented per specification and submitted before final payment is requested.
We Run
The Pipe.
Whether it's 200 feet of 8-inch sewer or two miles of 36-inch trunk main, our crew and equipment are in New England. Send us the scope and we'll turn around a number.