HDD & Conventional Boring Services
With over 40 years of experience in the underground utility trade, we furnish horizontal directional drilling and auger boring services for public and private providers of gas, telecommunication, electric, water, sanitary and storm sewers.
Utilizing the latest technology, specialized equipment and highly trained personnel, we are able to provide a complete product promptly, safely and in an environmentally friendly manner.
What is HDD?
Directional boring, also referred to as horizontal directional drilling (HDD), is a minimal impact trenchless method of installing underground utilities such as pipe, conduit, or cables along a defined underground path using a surface-launched drilling rig. Directional Boring offers significant environmental advantages over traditional open cut pipeline/utility installations. The technique is routinely used when conventional trenching or excavating is not practical or when minimal surface disturbance is required.
What is Conventional Boring?
Conventional boring, also referred to as auger boring or jack and bore, is also a trenchless application in which a casing pipe is jacked into the earth. Excavated soil is removed from the top of the casing tube instead. Auger boring employs a cutting edge attached to the auger within the casing pipe and hydraulic jacks, to rotate and penetrate the soil.