Project: Track Rehabilitation
Lansdale, PA
Ecotech Hydro Excavation worked on the Lansdale Railroad helping with a track rehabilitation project. Ecotech worked with a construction contractor located in Lansdale PA.
Meet the Team: Connie Boyd, Accounts Receivable Specialist
Connie Boyd, the Accounts Receivable Specialist at Ecotech, has been with the company for five years. After having been involved with accounting in the construction industry for almost 20 years, Connie was looking for a change—and an opportunity was presented to join the Ecotech team. Her favorite part about working with Ecotech is the people! The team not only works well together, but strives to provide the ultimate customer satisfaction for their clients.
When she’s not at work, Connie enjoys spending time with her husband and three kids on their small hobby farm and being outdoors. She is a lover of flea markets, thrift stores, and antique shops as well.
Meet the Team: Lori Mendez, Business Development Manager
Lori Mendez, Business Development Manager at Ecotech came to the company with 22 years of experience in sales and customer service in the construction and remodel industry. Lori was immediately intrigued by the company’s new and advanced technology in the excavation industry and decided to join the team.
Now one and half years later at Ecotech, Lori loves educating potential customers on the specialities the company offers, “There are so many potential customers out there that may still not be aware of hydro/air excavation or utilizing the benefits of it. It brings me great satisfaction to be the one to educate them,” she says.
Lori’s favorite part of her job is it’s versatility. One day she could be on a jobsite, the next day she may be visiting an office, or she may be at a seminar meeting new people to tell them about Ecotech. Lori enjoys being a part of a company that strives for customer satisfaction.
In her free time, Lori enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. She enjoys being a part of her kids interests and activities, specifically 4H, horseback riding, soccer, and wrestling. Lori also finds time to ride motorcycles with her husband and friends, as well as take trips to the mountains with her family.
Three Winter Safety Tips for Construction Workers
Updated 2020
No matter the season, there are many safety hazards that construction workers face at the job site. In the summer, employers focus on protecting employees from heat and dehydration. During the winter months, employers must consider extreme cold, high winds, and ice. Basic precautions and greater education can greatly reduce employee’s risk of illness and injury.
Follow these three tips to improve winter safety at the construction site:
1) Limit Exposure to the Elements
With lower temperatures comes an increased risk of hypothermia and frostbite. Consider breaking up larger projects into smaller tasks. Reducing exposure to the cold and wind greatly improves worker safety.
2) Wear Appropriate Clothing
Avoid slips and falls by wearing proper nonslip footwear. It is important to dress in layers including a heavy coat, sweatshirt, hats, and thermals. Encouraging employees to dress appropriately for winter weather helps to prevent illness and injury.
3) Inspect and Prepare Vehicles
Before heading into the cold season, all work vehicles should be inspected to guarantee that they are in working order. It’s important to include an emergency kit in all vehicles to aid in winter weather prevention and response.
Cold Weather Digging Made Easy with Ecotech
Ecotech is committed to delivering the highest level of safety while complying with government health, safety laws, and regulations. We pride ourselves on promptness, reliability, and customer service. With Ecotech, unlock a safe, non-destructive, and cost-efficient digging solution partner.
Interested in learning more about the other great benefits of hydro excavation? To contact a Customer Service Representative, please call (717) 806-5460 or contact us online. We look forward to serving you!
Avoid Accidental Utility Strikes During the Winter
Did you know that hydro excavation is a cost-efficient cold weather digging solution? Featuring a combination of highly pressurized heated water, hydro excavation immediately thaws the frozen ground and creates a slurry that can be quickly evacuated through an industrial vacuum.
Equipped with the most advanced hydrovac technologies, Ecotech can save you valuable time and money during your next cold weather digging project. Here’s how:
Eliminate Accidental Strikes
According to the Construction Safety Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of safety and health interests in the field of construction, there are several factors that complicate locating underground utilities:
- Utility lines are made of a variety of materials including steel, cast iron and ductile iron pipes, clay, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and fiberglass reinforced plastic
- Cable may be made of copper or fiber optics
- Conduits have different shapes, compositions, densities, and diameters, and their depths may be as little as 0 to 0.5 meters or in excess of 50 meters
- Some lines (usually local telephone, electric or gas lines) may be stacked vertically in a common trench
With hydro excavation, risk of accidental hits are virtually eliminated. With the precision to expertly navigate and locate underground utilities, hydro excavation is a preferred cold weather digging solution.
“The One Call process is a crucial part in identifying underground utilities. However, the only true way to know where the infrastructure is located is to properly expose it using the hydro or air excavation process”, Lori Mendez, Business Development Manager
Cold Weather Digging Made Easy with Ecotech
Ecotech is committed to delivering the highest level of safety while complying with government health, safety laws and regulations. We pride ourselves on promptness, reliability, and customer service. With Ecotech, unlock a safe, non-destructive, and cost-efficient digging solution partner.
Interested in learning more about the other great benefits of hydro excavation? To contact a Customer Service Representative, please call (717) 806-5460 or contact us online. We look forward to serving you!
Meet the Team: Blake Huber, Owner / Vice President
Vice President Blake Huber of Ecotech has been in the standard excavation business for fifteen years. While on an emergency weekend call, Blake saw a hydro excavator in action and was immediately intrigued by the excitement of the growing industry. Seeing the time and labor this method would save his team, Blake founded Ecotech Hydro Excavation in 2011.
Blake finds that helping his clients procure solutions to the most challenging of excavation problems has been the most rewarding aspect of his job. Ecotech has worked on a vast variety of jobs, including one to remove over 2,000 cubic yards of fill dirt from a hospital basement in Philadelphia. As a result, the cost of Ecotech came in as less than half of the next closest bid due to their use of hydro excavation, rather than hand digging.
In his free time, Blake enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, hunting with his son, and taking trips to the mountains.
Cold Weather & Frozen Ground Digging with Hydro Excavation
Ready to unlock an affordable and safe cold weather digging solution? A non-mechanical, non-destructive, and cost-effective excavating process, hydro excavation combines pressurized water and a high flow of moving air to simultaneously excavate and evacuate soil and other natural debris from the dig site. When cold weather strikes, hydro excavation is an especially effective digging solution. Here’s why:
1) Greater Safety
Typically, cold weather digging requires a large investment in time, resources, and capital. With hydro excavation, discover a safe, non-destructive, and cost-efficient method for exposing buried utilities. The soft dig process eliminates accidental damage to underground utilities and does not cause any unnecessary harm to the environment.
2) Lower Costs
Ready to save big on your next cold weather excavation project? With hydro excavation avoid costs associated with downtime where traditional digging methods are slowed down or brought to a halt due to frozen ground. Unlock a digging solution that saves you both time and money.
“Frost in the ground is essentially like trying to cut through concrete. Our hydro excavators are equipped with a boiler that heats the water to 120 degrees Fahrenheit that melts the frost allowing the water to cut easily through the frozen ground,” Ryan Frank, Director of Operations.
Cold Weather Digging Made Easy with Ecotech
Ecotech is committed to delivering the highest level of safety while complying with government health, safety laws and regulations. We pride ourselves on promptness, reliability, and customer service. With Ecotech, unlock a safe, non-destructive, and cost-efficient digging solution partner.
Interested in learning more about the other great benefits of hydro excavation? To contact a Customer Service Representative, please call (717) 806-5460 or contact us online. We look forward to serving you!
3 Reasons to Partner with Ecotech
Searching for a safe, cost-effective, and non-disruptive excavation strategy to effortlessly remove debris? Hydro excavation is considered to be one of the best excavation techniques employed by municipalities, contractors, and public utility companies.
A leader in hydro and air excavation throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northwest Region, Ecotech offers the highest level of promptness, reliability, and customer service. Not convinced? Check out these top three reasons to partner with Ecotech:
1. A Superior Digging Solution:
Hydro and air excavation provide users with an increased level of precision while reducing disruption to the excavation site. This precise process drastically reduces the chance of accidental hits to underground pipes, lines, and cables which ultimately saves our customers time and money.
2. Multiple Industries Served:
We’re proud to provide multiple industries with expert hydro and air excavation services. We’ve partnered with industry-leading utilities, plumbing, electrical, oil, gas, construction, municipal, and engineering companies. We understand the unique complexities of each industry and tailor our services to meet the demands of your particular project.
3. Service Areas Throughout the Northeast:
We’re proud to serve customers in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and beyond!
Interested in learning more about our hydro and air excavation services? To schedule your consultation, please call (717) 806-5460 or e-mail. We look forward to serving you!
How Does Hydro Excavation Lower Costs?
Hydro excavation is precise, safe, fast and far less destructive than traditional excavation techniques. The cost of a utility strike is high in terms of penalties, repair costs, and lost time. Hydro excavation is a cost-effective way to implement your next excavation project. Here’s why:
The hydro excavation process allows for quick, clean, and precise excavations—requiring less backfill, less labor force, less restoration, and less environmental impact than conventional digging methods. The surgeon-like accuracy is a result of a water gun tool which removes only the necessary material instead of a large, less-than-accurate backhoe.
This razor-like precision is considered “preventive excavation” as it tends to disrupt less ground while searching for underground utilities and infrastructure. This limits the scope (and invasiveness) of traditional excavation methods, ultimately lowering the cost!
There are several hydro excavation services which also aid in lowering costs during the evacuation process. The sub-surface utility engineering process observes and records depths, locations, and quality of buried utilities extremely quickly, and in the most efficient manner. This process itself lowers costs in pre-construction, as it eliminates accidental line breakage, unexpected utility relocation, change orders, environmental disasters, and community impact.
Remote excavating leaves virtually no footprint and a very clean worksite because—even when working inside buildings or underneath structures—the only necessary equipment is the water gun tool and a vacuum hose. Lower footprint and cleaner worksites mean lower costs in the areas of cleanup and just being eco-friendly in general.
Interested in learning more about our hydro and air excavation services? To schedule your consultation, please call (717) 806-5460 or e-mail. We look forward to serving you!
Discovering the Ecotech Difference
Avoiding accidental hits to underground utilities is crucial during a project. Such possible accidental hits to avoid include power outages, fires, floods, utility damage, injuries to workers and bystanders, and inconvenient traffic disruptions, mandatory evacuation procedures, and costly interruption to businesses and construction projects.
When using Ecotech’s unique hydro excavation services, jobs are completed much faster than with conventional equipment, yielding in less material to be removed and the use of truly cost efficient tools for your next big project.
Additionally, Ecotech helps take care of the environment through the use of high-pressure water, precisely digging through soil with minimum disruption to the surrounding environment. Ecotech’s hydro excavator can dig through the toughest material with precision—such as rocky soil, clay, and frozen ground. As an added bonus, the hydro excavation truck can be up to hundreds of feet away from the dig site, decreasing ground restoration from heavy equipment and a larger footprint, as well as not worrying about runoff of sediment into sewer systems and waterways.
Using Ecotech’s hydro excavation services is revolutionary in avoiding accidental hits which risk harm to people, businesses, and their properties.
Interested in learning more about our hydro and air excavation services? To schedule your consultation, please call (717) 806-5460 or e-mail. We look forward to serving you!
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