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These projects collectively highlight our ability to combine innovative engineering, specialized equipment, and a skilled workforce, as well as showcasing our core values of safety, integrity, teamwork, and service substantial capital investment.“ Compared to many firms that rent or lease equipment based on project needs, our strategy emphasizes ownership of critical assets to reduce long-term costs, improve scheduling flexibility, and help us self-perform major scopes of our work,” Tim notes.“ Among other equipment, our core fleet includes tunnel boring machines( TBMs), heavycapacity cranes and lifting equipment, and support equipment such as excavators, backhoes, loaders, and heavy-duty trucks. This multi-capable fleet is a part of what allows us to pivot among project types and geographies, providing a major advantage when bidding on complex, large-scale infrastructure assignments.
“ We’ ve also established a dedicated equipment team of operators and technicians to ensure our fleet is not static but rather actively maintained and expanded to enable consistent performance across each business line,” he adds.“ Rather than relying solely on external vendors or partners, we employ our own skilled mechanics, technicians, and logistics specialists, and their expertise ensures machinery is kept in peak operating condition, downtime is minimized, and equipment can be quickly deployed to projects across the country. Alongside preventive maintenance, fleet tracking programs, and optimized lifecycle management, this in-house team can also respond quickly to any equipment issues, reducing delays that can often occur when using third parties.”
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