Kirk Excavating is a trenchless utility contractor working for gas, electric, telecom and water clients across six states. Directional drilling, auger boring, pipeline installation. Twenty-five years of work under roads, rivers and everything in between.
We install the utilities other contractors would rather not touch. Water crossings. State-route bores. Fiber that has to be in the ground by next week.
Trenchless installation under roadways, driveways, waterways and wetlands. When open-cut would tear up a road, a river crossing or a farm field, we bore it in instead.
Bore diameters and rig class on request; jobs range from short residential service crossings to multi-hundred-foot state-route and river shots.
Auger and pit-launched boring for shorter crossings and cased installations under roads and rail. Straight, sleeved, and to grade.
Pit-launched, shored, and grade-controlled. Typical scopes include state-route casings, rail crossings, and utility corridors under existing infrastructure.
Open-cut and trenchless install for gas mains, electric duct banks, water mains, and sanitary and storm sewer. Cased or uncased, tested, and restored.
Fusion, jointing, pressure testing, chlorination and full site restoration handled in-house. Works alongside our drilling and boring crews on combined scopes.
Conduit, vaults, and fiber pathway construction for telecom carriers, ISPs and municipal broadband. Route design through mandrel and handoff.
Route walk, permitting support, conduit and vault placement, proofing and mandrel, ready for the carrier's fiber pull. Long-haul, MDU and last-mile builds.
Kirk was founded in 2001 in Columbus, Ohio. Since then we've been the crew utilities and general contractors call when the utility has to go somewhere the excavator can't.
Every rating under 1.00 means our safety record beats the industry average. Below 0.90 is where utility clients start requiring you before they'll take a bid.
2023–2025 EMR: [NEED FROM CLIENT]
We're based in Columbus and mobilize crews across the Midwest and Appalachia. Select projects have taken us further; ask about scope outside this footprint.
Estimating answers the phone and the inbox directly — no gatekeeper, no ticket queue. Send the scope and we'll come back with real numbers and real questions about the work.
