Directional Drilling & HDD
Horizontal directional drilling for roads, highways, rail crossings, and waterways. Apex runs the Vermeer D20x22 S3 Navigator with full DigiTrak F5 locating — precision shots with every bore so existing infrastructure stays intact and undamaged.
- Highway and road crossings
- Railroad and utility crossings
- Creek and waterway crossings
- Mini-bore and micro-bore shots
- Pre-locating and utility verification
Trenching & Plowing
Open-cut trenching and cable plowing for buried conduit and direct-buried fiber routes. Efficient ground-up construction for rural routes and developed corridors alike.
- Open-cut trenching for conduit runs
- Cable plowing for direct-buried fiber
- Rural and agricultural routes
- Backfill and surface restoration
- Rock trenching capability
Fiber Pulling & Placement
Fiber blowing and cable pulling through existing conduit. Clean, efficient placement for FTTP builds, rural broadband expansions, and commercial routes with full documentation of every run.
- Blown fiber installation
- Cable pull-through in existing conduit
- FTTP last-mile placement
- Mid-span and aerial placement
- Full as-built documentation
Fiber Splicing & Testing
Fusion splicing, OTDR testing, and splice closure installation done right the first time. Single-mode and multi-mode capability with full loss sheet documentation and certification on delivery.
- Single-mode and multi-mode fusion splicing
- OTDR testing and trace documentation
- Splice closure installation
- Loss sheet certification on delivery
- Emergency restoration splicing
Rural Fiber Construction
Long-haul rural builds for residential broadband expansion. Montana terrain experience — we've worked the roads, the fields, and the mountain routes that other crews won't touch.
- Long-haul rural fiber routes
- BEAD and ReConnect build experience
- Agricultural and remote terrain
- Rock and hard-ground capability
- Turn-key builds from design to test
Handholes & Core Drilling
Handhole placement, vault installation, concrete sawcutting, and core drilling. Every underground build needs the right access points — installed to spec, site left clean.
- Polymer and concrete handhole installation
- Vault placement and backfill
- Concrete sawcutting and core drilling
- Conduit sweeps and transitions
- Surface restoration and patching
