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Our Capabilities

Overhead & Aerial Utility Construction

Electric Conduit Construction (ECC) has the crews, management, equipment and tools to build, repair, maintain or move, aerial communication systems, fiber optic utilities, and electrical distribution systems.

Underground Utility Construction

For over 50 years Electric Conduit Construction (ECC) has built underground utility infrastructure for power and communication companies. The world has moved into fiber optic cable but the earth is as unyielding as ever and the work to install anything underground is more complex. ECC works in the heart of major cities, suburban environments and rural settings. Our award winning utility damage prevention programs and protocols have won us recognition for safe excavation in the most difficult of circumstances. ECC generates over 100,000 dig tickets each year.

Civil

Excavation, grading, concrete forming and pouring are a few of the civil tasks associated with most construction projects. ECC excavates by mechanical, and hydroVacuum or hydro excavation. Using these methods we pour building slabs and foundations, transformer foundations, sono tube footings and other support footings.

Fiber/DAS/Small Cell

As the cost of connecting to the Internet of Things (IOT) continues to decline, the number of connections increases. ECC is very good at managing complex 5G and fiber network installations. The complexity of urban and suburban permitting, material acquisition and tracking, crew scheduling and power and fiber installation, is a normal process for our project managers and field superintendents.

Horizontal Directional Drilling

Horizontal Directional Drilling is an efficient way to install conduit without disturbing roads and parkways. But it is fraught with danger. ECC has decades of experience with directional drilling. Our planning and execution of each drill eliminates utility strikes and keeps workers safe.

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Our expertise with directional drilling and overhead utility work enables us to upgrade existing roads and highways with minimal disruption to traffic. Fiber optic networks allow for the connection of multiple data sensors for dynamic signage, video surveillance cameras, environmental data, traffic data and lighting. Road operation centers, applying this data can smooth traffic flow and give drivers advance warning of slowdowns or other road hazards. ECC is proud to play a part in building this infrastructure and maintaining it into the future.

Emergency Call Out Services

ECC’s emergency call out service responds to over 25 calls per week. A typical emergency call is responded to in under two hours. A trained technician inspects the site and assesses the situation. This early assessment saves our customers time and money by focusing the right expertise, crew, and equipment on the trouble. ECC’s objective is to understand the problem first and fix it fast.

Maintenance Programs

Electric Conduit Construction builds new infrastructure and offers maintenance on new and existing installations. These maintenance programs are typically customer driven and may consist of inspections, damage repair, antenna testing and alignment, equipment replacement, equipment upgrades or planned replacement of life limited or obsolete equipment.

Responsibility

is the foundation for all we do

For over 60 years, we’ve built an environment within our company where safety is everyone’s responsibility. Every phase of every project, we accept nothing less than an accident-free jobsite. We believe this standard leads to safer and more productive jobsites and that’s why we’re dedicated to having the highest level of protection for our employees, our customers and the general public. That’s our standard.

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Qualifications

Increasingly the ability to work for certain customers depends upon qualifications and experience. Work on critical infrastructure may require certain electrical certifications or operator qualifications, or both. ECC supports these certifications and pays for its employees to gain the knowledge and skills to perform the tasks that require them.

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Case Studies

Splice Enclosure Construction

Splicing and splice enclosures are critical components in any optical network’s chain of components. This case study will focus on quality control as it applies to the repair of cables and the organization of fibers in splice enclosures.

Emergency Repair to a Damaged 12 kv circuit

Distribution crews from Electric Conduit Construction (ECC), were called out when another contractor’s construction crew hit a 12 kv distribution circuit while moving a load with a sky-trac, extendable boom forklift. Molten metal exploded from the sky-trac’s forks as they created a short...

HDD Pulls Back 26 Ducts

Construction projects require days, and sometimes weeks, of planning and preparation before the actual project can begin. This was the case when a major telecom company awarded Electric Conduit Construction the job of relocating 26 ducts that would ultimately carry fiber optic cable.

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News & Education

Fiber Optic Cable Installation

The requirements for fiber optic cable will increase logrythmically over the coming decade. 5G communications networks, sensor devices, monitoring devices and control devices will all be connected and communicating via fiber optic cable to internet routers and servers.

07 Apr 2021

Directional Drilling with no Utility Damage

Horizontal Directional Drilling is the least disruptive way to place utilities. If we all had X-Ray vision we would immediately see the dangers that drilling crews face. Consider a city block with homes every sixty feet.

04 Nov 2019

Trenching in Conduit for Fiber Optic Network

The amount of fiber optic cable being put in the ground and hung from utility poles is staggering. Fiber ultimately will replace copper twisted pair, and coaxial cable.

03 May 2019

Electric Conduit Construction Steers a Course Towards Excellence

Electric Conduit Construction was awarded another challenging contract. This particular project required that ECC accurately drill to a prescribed radius for a total distance of 900’ under Interstate 294 near O’Hare Airport, northwest of Chicago, Illinois.

01 May 2018

GCDPC Contractor of the year

Over its 55 year history Electric Conduit Construction has installed thousands of miles of underground utilities. Many lessons have been learned about how to avoid damage to crossing and parallel utility infrastructure.

15 Mar 2018

AGL Magazine Publishes Small Cell Article

Thanks to the hard work of our crews this project was executed with zero safety incidents or injuries. Despite heavy vehicle and pedestrian traffic no accidents occurred and everyone was kept safe.

16 Mar 2016

60 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE SERVING THE UTILITY & WIRELESS INDUSTRY

Project Locations

Look over our project map. If your projects are located in this area we can help you with any type of Underground Construction, Cell Tower, or DAS project.

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