Relining/Rehab

In the middle of the grape-harvesting season at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena, Calif., workers washing 40,000-gallon fermenting tanks and...

After working for years in various phases of construction in and around Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Jesse Stephens established Stephens Excavating & Concrete, taking...

Water leaking into crawl spaces and pooling in the flowerbed in front of the main entrance at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in...

Two or three times per week, sewage backed up into the emergency room, radiology department, and cafeteria of the Martin Memorial Hospital...

For 20 years, replacing sewer lines was an important business sector for Michael McVay, owner of McVay Plumbing Company Inc. in Penn...

David Ratliff’s Midway Plumbing is a quarter-century old, but it has lasted that long by doing new things. He launched the business...

Being a big contractor good at many little things was hard to market, so Dennis Smith, owner of Pipe Experts LLC in...

In pipeline inspection technology, most of the credit goes to the cameras that enable viewing of the pipe wall, the vans that...

Sewage backing into the emergency room complex of the Villages Regional Hospital brought employees from the maintenance arm of CH2M Hill on...

Sometimes new opportunities make business owners take a deep breath and make big investments in new equipment. Rich Navert, owner and president...

The municipal swimming pool in Tracy, Minn., was losing hundreds of gallons of water per day. When a local contractor televised the...

Charlie Hall may call his sewer and drain-cleaning operation a “redneck enterprise,” but there is no smirking about the way he has...

When John Perry struck out on his own 12 years ago, he saw that he could differentiate his business by providing “limousine...

With apologies to Kermit the Frog, it’s not easy turning a company green. But at the B. Frank Joy Co. in Hyattsville,...

Drain lines in a potato chip processing plant in Orlando, Fla., were running slowly or not at all. The facility, built in...

Thirty years ago, Bill Smith established Lincoln Sewer & Drain after losing his job as a welder. He worked briefly for a...