650,000-Foot Fiber-to-the-Home Buildout, Mid-Michigan
Near 650,000 linear feet of fiber-to-the-home conduit bored across rural mid-Michigan for MEC — 10 months, multiple rigs running in parallel, zero damage claims and zero municipal violations.
The Brief
MEC needed a large fiber-to-the-home buildout across mid-Michigan — close to 650,000 linear feet of conduit through rural terrain to bring service to homes across the footprint. The scope spanned long rural runs and multiple municipalities, with a clean-record expectation: no damages, no violations, and turnaround fast enough to keep the program moving across an extended schedule.
The Crew
We staffed the program with three to four HDD rigs running in parallel, each on its own segment to keep production high. Because the work was rural, we ran many excavators across the crews rather than waiting on shared equipment, and assigned a dedicated restoration team to each crew so cleanup followed the bore instead of stacking up behind it. A back-office PM kept every one-call ticket current and clear so the field never waited on locates.
Delivery
- ~650,000 linear feet of conduit installed
- 10 months of drilling with a portion of our crew
- 3–4 rigs working independent segments in parallel
- Zero damage claims
- Zero municipal violations
- Fast turnaround, segment to segment, across the full program
Why It Mattered
A buildout this size only stays profitable if it stays clean. Parallel crews with dedicated restoration and disciplined ticket management let us hold pace for ten months without a single damage claim or municipal violation — the kind of record that keeps an FTTH program on schedule and the next phase coming our way.