General Excavating

Recently, General Excavating placed 150 miles of fiber cable to three rural areas in eastern Nebraska. These feeds allow rural areas to have High-Speed Internet connection and Digital Cable Television.

Two of General Excavating's offices aided in the construction of this 150-mile fiber run. The Lincoln, Nebraska office, as well as the Hamburg, Iowa office had crews across eastern Nebraska working for several months on this install. "General Excavating's crews were able to complete these projects in a timely fashion and handled our aggressive schedule very well. They did a good job and were reliable", commented Marlys Remus, Time Warner Cable.

Not only were typical installation methods used to plow the fiber and to dig the hand holes, General Excavating was able to utilize their trenchless technology methods. Directional Bore machines were used to drill under all roadway intersections, creeks and rivers. Once the fiber was installed, General Excavating restored the right-of-ways by grading and compacting, as well as re-seeding all disturbed areas. General Excavating obtained all proper county and state permits prior to construction.

Lynn Siedschlag, Division Manager for General Excavating's Communications Department says, "It's good working with local clients such as Time Warner Cable. We have developed a good relationship with them through fair pricing and hard work."

Directional Boring has been used to install water main, electrical, gas, and cable for many years now. The latest utility to utilize boring methods is fiber optics. The marriage of trenchless technology to the installation of fiber-optic cable was inevitable. This marriage has been a good one for General Excavating.

Telecommunications companies such as Alltel, Worldcom, McLeod USA, Sprint, Level 3 and AT&T have contracted General Excavating to install new fiber-optic cable and to maintain their existing lines.

Why are major communications companies using the trenchless method? It's simple. As with water, gas, cable and electrical, the trenchless method eliminates the need for road shutdowns and saves time and expense on street restoration work. It eliminates possible damage caused by crossing existing utilities, and reduces the need for open pits and large trenches. Safety is always the number one consideration at General Excavating our trenchless technology aids in a very safe worksite. With the use of vacuum excavation prior to directional boring, existing underground utility locations are verified preceding any type of construction. This also saves time and money by eliminating utility interruption.

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1. Over 200,000 cubic yards of silt has been dredged from Lake Wa Con Da near Union, Nebraska. "When the project is complete, nearly 310,000 cubic yards of silt will have been removed," says Mike Stewart, Project Manager at General Excavating. Project will be completed by 12/31/01. The engineer is The Schemmer Associates.

2. General Excavating recently completed the excavation work for a large cement dome storage facility at Ash Grove, near Louisville, NE. "The cement dome required over a million pounds of rebar," comments Chad Headlee, Project Manager for Ayars & Ayars, Inc., the dome's tunnel and concrete contractor. General Excavating was a subcontractor to Ayars & Ayars, Inc.

Before your next project, consider talking with the Project Managers at General Excavating. Assistance and recommendations on construction options can be provided to engineers, architects, consultants, developers, general contractors and subcontractors. Let us help guide you during the entire process. Our support services for underground construction include:

This picture illustrates installation of the geothermal loop for a heat exchanger at Rose Hill Elementary School. This quarter's photo winner is Daryl Hopp. Daryl is a project foreman and has been with General Excavating for 12 years.

Each quarter, employees enter photos in our contest for a chance to be published in our newsletter and win $100. Congratulations Daryl!